This International Women’s Day, the call for a gender- balanced world needs to better the balance by asking women and girls what they want from their urban mobility systems. Policies designed and implemented to improve transport infrastructure and services cannot be assumed to automatically benefit women. Over the last five years, the emphasis on gender responsive transport in India has ...
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‘Smart eye’ cameras to monitor Bengaluru roads
Under the ‘Suraksha Mitra’ plan, more than 4,500 road junctions and main roads in Bengaluru will get 10,000 CCTV cameras. These cameras, called ‘Smart Eyes’ will have Artificial Intelligence (AI) and will keep an eye on the streets 24×7. The AI-powered cameras are different from the normal CCTVs. The cameras use a recent module of AI developed by POLSEC—a Brazilian ...
Online platform for vehicle booking
Kerala’s Labour Department is planning to launch an online platform where the customers can book auto rickshaws, taxicabs, contract carriers, ambulance and even trucks according to their needs. The project will be implemented under the direct control of the Kerala State Motor Transport Workers Welfare Fund Board with financial aid from the State Planning Board. The pilot project will be ...
Roads from Plastic Waste
In a first of its kind initiative, a one-kilometre road in Nongkynjang village in Nongstoin, West Khasi Hills, Meghalaya has been built with shredded waste plastic technology in convergence with MGNREGA and Megha-LAMP. A technology developed by Rajagopalan Vasudevan, a chemistry professor from Madurai, uses finelyshredded plastic waste that is added to heated bitumen. This technology has been used extensively ...
Smart Transport System for Mumbai
The Maharashtra government plans to develop an intelligent traffic management system for Mumbai for better traffic management and controlling the speed of vehicles. The plan is to replicate the system across Maharashtra. The system would study driving habits of motorists, kinds of traffic offences and traffic pattern. The transport authorities can analyse these and develop a customised system to prevent ...
Green Registration Plates for Electric Vehicles
The Union Road Transport and Highways ministry has recommended green registration plates for electric vehicles to identify them for preferential treatment, such as special parking or discounted tolls. According to the proposal, the registration plates of private electric vehicles will have a green background with numbers and letters in white, and commercial electric vehicles will have a green background with ...
CCTVs, speed radars for elevated road at Ghaziabad
The Ghaziabad Development Authority has finalised the modalities for installing CCTV cameras and speed radars along the 10.3km -long Hindon elevated road. While two cameras will be installed at the entry and exit of the elevated road, the remaining have been proposed along the curves and speed radars halfway along the elevated road. The radars will be equipped with ANPR ...
Pune to get live traffic updates on VMD
Pune citizens will now get live updates on traffic in their areas through variable messaging display. The Pune Smart City Development Corporation has signed an MoU with Dutch private navigation technology company TomTom to develop a proof of concept. The pilot project will collect information about traffic congestion, road closures and travel time to feed live updates. PSCDCL is also ...
Noida Authority plans for ATCS
To make traffic management more robust and intelligent, the Noida Authority is planning to introduce Adaptive Traffic Control System that can manage the traffic lights according to the density of vehicles on each of the roads at intersections. The system will have a traffic signal controller, vehicle detectors, application software, central control station and communication network. The system uses stop ...
Online Speed Radar at Chandigarh
In a major development to aware the drivers on road to reign in their speed within the prescribed speed limit, Chandigarh Traffic Police has installed online speed sensing radar. The main objective of the installed radar on the dividing road near Sector 9 and 10 is to control over-speeding vehicles that lead to major collisions resulting in fatal accidents. The ...