The Chennai Municipal Corporation is planning to make exclusive pedestrian and cycling zones in crowded areas of Chennai with cycles forming a feeder transport to the mass rapid transport system. The city will get bicycle-sharing programme on the lines of the ones in cities such as London and Paris. There will be bicycle stands at bus stops, railway stations and ...

Scientists at the Gujarat Energy Research and Management Institute (GERMI) have proposed to use major roads in the country as solar power generators. A paper published by Tirumalachetty Harinarayana, director of GERMI and Pragya Sharma, a co-worker, in the International Journal of Energy, Environment and Engineering, outlines the concept of generating solar power by laying a roof of photovoltaic panels ...

Yojiro Oshima, a design student at the Craft & Industrial Department at Musashino Art University in Tokyo, has designed a completely hand-crafted wooden bicycle. The wooden bike features a sculptural wooden frame that softens the ride while retaining an optimal level of stiffness. Yojiro used hollowed-out 6-12mm sections and bonded them together to create a network of rims and spokes. ...

Alstom Transport, part of the Paris-based Alstom Group, is planning to transform its engineering facility at Bangalore into a global research and development hub. The facility which employs at present about 300 personnel, developing applications and products for its rail signalling projects in Asia and Europe, will be expanded to include a team focused on research, engineering and development of ...

In today?s age of massive urbanisation, strong efforts are being made to find alternative, sustainable and economical modes of transport. Bicycle, in such a scenario, comes right at the top. Hitesh Mehta, MD and CEO of Protek, who facilitated the construction of Mumbai?s first Segregated Cycle Lane, answers some quick questions.   What is a segregated cycle lane? And why ...

Vadodara Mahanagar Seva Sadan and the Centre of Excellence in Urban Transport at CEPT University have submitted a detailed project report on Vadodara Bus Rapid Transit System to the Government of India Vadodara, formerly known as Baroda, is the third largest and most populated city in Gujarat, after Ahmedabad and Surat. The present population of Vadodara is 16.6 lakh and ...

Dr Guruprasad Mohapatra, Municipal Commissioner, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation tells TrafficInfraTech that in order to bring a method to administering the city, the Corporation has decided that certain roads will have no vendors, and certain zones will be no encroachment zones. It is also forcing the road facing shops and malls to have adequate parking and is allowing three wheelers to ...

Solar LED Lights from Solaris is an investment product that pays back within 5?8 years of investment. It helps to reduce energy cost by 50-70% and decrease carbon footprint and light pollution. It has a design life of 20 years and Solaris offers free maintenance for these 20 years. The use of these lights provides for better spacing between poles, ...

Automatic Siding Door for BRTS from Technocrats Security Systems Pvt Ltd has been widely used in the Janmarg BRTS, Ahmedabad. When the bus arrives at the station bay and the bus doors and bus station doors align with each other, the bus driver presses a switch to open the bus doors and then presses the RF remote open button switch ...

Street Furniture from Bajaj Engineering & Projects, a division of Bajaj Electricals Ltd includes standard and customised products such as Lighting Poles and Columns for Street lighting / Area lighting, highmasts, polygonal poles for traffic signals and polygonal poles for signage. These lighting poles are used in street illumination as well as for traffic signals at traffic intersections. Poles above ...