Category: Interviews
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Building Transportation Infrastructure with passion
What sets Dr. Harikishan Reddy, Chairman, Cube Highways apart is not just his two decades of experience in infrastructure development/funding and Traffic Engineering, but it is also his domain knowledge systematically accumulated through his wide ranging experience built on top of his formal education in transport. In an exclusive interview with Mangala Chandran, Dr. Reddy…
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Building Infrastructure, Building a Nation
Sanjay Londhe, Director and CEO of Ashoka Buildcon Limited, has been a key figure in the company’s incredible growth over the past 35 years. His expertise in engineering and project execution has been instrumental in Ashoka Buildcon’s completion of many challenging infrastructure projects. In conversation with Mangala Chandran, Londhe reflects on the company’s journey from…
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From glass beads to 25,000 variations of traffic lights
The Austria-based traffic technology group SWARCO prides itself on providing safe and smart travel for all. “Innovations and sustainability are the backbones of our company,” says CEO Michael Schuch in a conversation with Mangala Chandran at Intertraffic Amsterdam 2024. Schuch reflects on over 25 years with SWARCO, tracing its evolution from provider of glass beads…
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Interview: Meeting the Challenges of Speeding
Continuing our conversation with the Traffic Police Commissioners of different Indian Cities, we have here BBGTS Murthy, DCP, Kanpur 1. How is the Kanpur Traffic police able to handle speeding challenges? Yes, we are handling over speeding by using Limit Sign Boards and Challans, creating awareness through various media, coordinating with various other departments like…
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MetroCount Overcoming Road Challenges in India
World leader in automatic traffic monitoring, Australia based MetroCount has been exhibiting at Traffiicnfratech Expo regularly. According to Maurice Berger, Business Development Manager, the event has been the perfect place to share the company’s traffic monitoring solutions to government agencies, toll operators and survey companies India MetroCount has been consistently improving and developing new technologies…
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We want to modernize 150 depots across Maharashtra
Anil Parab, Transport Minister, Government of Maharashtra speaks about his priorities, importance of technology in road safety and plans to rejuvenate the State Transport Corporation in an exclusive interview with Rahul Kamat As the newly appointed Transport Minister of Maharashtra, what are your priorities which you would like to take upon a warfooting note? At…
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Interview “Bihar requires smart parking management system”
Once tagged as a leading BIMARU state in India, Bihar is successful in shedding the tag to become one of the important contributors to India’s GDP. The state, majorly known for violators is now adopting technologically advanced equipment to catch those offenders. TrafficInfraTech caught up with Sanjay Kumar Agarwal (IAS), Secretary, Transport Department and MD…
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“With NIP in place, we expect speedy project awarding”
In an interview, Satish Parakh, Managing Director, Ashoka Buildcon speaks about government’s recent thrust on speeding infrastructure projects, company’s approach on road safety and smart highways vertical What are the opportunities ABL is eyeing being a Master System Integrator? ABL started thinking of Smart Highways vertical three years back with a vision of overall social…
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Interview “Last-mile connectivity attracts commuters to the Metro service”
In an exclusive interview, Padma Vibhushan awardee and the Metro man of India Dr E Sreedharan, speaks to Rahul Kamat about Metro policy, and how the government can make Metro projects play a vital role in improving urban mobility, reduce road accidents and pollution levels What are some of the key digital management initiatives and…
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Due to ITMS a sense of order is developing on the Indian roads’
[box type=”shadow” ] In an exclusive interview Kunal Kumar, Joint Secretary & Mission Director (Smart Cities Mission), Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India explains Rahul Kamat the importance of ITMS and how it has improved decisionmaking capacity on traffic management and strategies due to the availability of real-time and historical data. [/box]…