Aiming to enhance connectivity between residential and mobility spaces, Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Corporation announced a tie-up with Samsung Electronics for a Car-to-Home and Home-to-Car service partnership. The service will provide remote and touch-based control through voice commands to various home appliances while driving and vice-versa, to check vehicle status, control functions and manage charging before and after driving ...
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Robotic car parking system
Affordable Robotic and Automation Limited (ARAPL) has collaborated with its subsidiary ARAPL RaaS to develop India’s first mobile robotic multi-level car parking system using automated guided vehicles (AGVs). These 3-axis automated solutions are expected to generate INR 40 crore in FY 2025 revenue from the new business line. In 2023, ARAPL added 60,000 sq. ft. of new production capacity to ...
Seismometers in bullet train corridor
The National High-Speed Rail Corporation (NHSRCL) announced plans to install 28 seismometers, including an “Early Earthquake Detection System,” along the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train corridor. The seismometers will be hosted in traction sub-stations and switching posts along the alignment. These will detect earthquake-induced tremors through primary waves enabling an automatic power shutdown followed by deactivation of brakes, thereby forcing the train ...
National Highway projects
In an initiative to enhance seamless connectivity between Tamil Nadu and Kerala, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari inaugurated and laid the foundation stone of 12 National Highway projects with a total length of 105 km in Kasargod recently. This initiative holds the promise of reducing overall transportation costs and eliminating black spots on National Highways leading ...
Black spots to be rectified
Addressing an event organised by International Road Federation, Anurag Jain, Secretary, Ministry of Road Transport & Highways stated that about 4,000 black spots have been rectified in the last three years. Nine thousand more black spots have been identified and the Ministry has set a target of March 2025 to rectify all black spots in the country. Stretches of about ...
Union Budget Response 2023 – Mr. Senthil NA Mariappan
Senthil NA Mariappan, CEO of DataCorp Traffic “The allocation of Rs. 2.70 lakh crores in the budget to the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways is a positive step towards boosting infrastructure development. The strong focus on improving roads, highways, and ports is likely to attract more investments and boost growth in the industry. This emphasis is expected to enhance ...
Union budget Response 2023 – Mr. Ashish P. Dhakan
Mr. Ashish P. Dhakan, MD & CEO, Prama Hikvision India Pvt. Ltd. The Union Budget 2023-24 clearly has the visionary roadmap to put India on the path to become $5 trillion economy. The seven priorities of the budget ‘Saptarishi’ are inclusive development, reaching the last mile, infrastructure and investment, unleashing the potential, green growth, youth power and financial sector. It ...
Road Safety Week 2016
The Ministry of Road Transport & Highways organized the Road Safety Week on January 11, 2016 throughout the country to create awareness among general public to improve the safety on road and to give an opportunity to all stakeholders to contribute to the cause of road safety. During the week awareness about various causes of road accidents and measures to ...
New Road Safety policy for Gujarat
Gujarat ranks eighth in the country when it comes to people dying in road accidents as per the latest National Crime Records Bureau report. The figures are staggering. The State government is coming up with a state road safety policy which will ensure a “zero black spot policy”. This means that a design audit of all rural and urban roads ...
Outer Delhi set to get a smart city
The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has come up with a plan to turn a 24,000 hectare area in Najafgarh, Kanjhawala and Narela into an integrated Smart City.The Smart City will have dedicated bicycle lanes, high frequency mass transport, 24×7 water and power to all households, no waterlogging, 100% internet coverage, 30 minutes emergency medical response time and facilities like parks, ...