Honeywell Home and Building Technologies has announced its project with Rajkot Municipal Corporation and Rajkot Police to implement a smart city command- and-control center along with a citywide surveillance system. The project for Gujarat’s fourth-largest city includes more than 450 integrated closed-circuit televisions (CCTVs) and Wi-Fi at 13 key public places, supported by software and servers across 107 strategic locations ...

Paytm accounts can now be used to pay toll charges too. National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and Paytm recently signed a partnership deal to this effect. The ministry’s existing radiofrequency tags will be utilized for the cashless transactions. Building on FASTag that the NHAI had introduced early this year, it began its cashless drive with the online payments platform. ...

The Government of India recently allowed the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to monetize public-funded national highways projects, which are operational and generating toll revenues for at least two years after the commercial operations date, under a toll operate transfer model. This move opens up brownfield investments in the highway sector to institutional investors. However, the monetisation will be ...

Government will construct 1,000 km of expressways under its flagship road building programme NHDP at a cost of Rs 16,680Cr. The main criteria for selection of expressway corridors will be the traffic volume. The decision to give top priority to the highest density corridor, i.e., the Vadodara-Mumbai Corridor (400km) and considering it for the feasibility study was approved in the ...

Sanjay Mitra, Secretary, Ministry of Road Transport & Highways (MoRTH) mesmerized the delegates with his Chief Guest’s address on the inaugural day at the seminar that discussed Smart Roads and Highways. Reason? He spoke straight from heart. He made many announcements too. Read on. The Ministry of Road Transport & Highways (MoRTH) is going to throw up many business opportunities. ...

Dr. Praveen Gedam, Transport Commissioner, Government of Maharashtra believes that computerization with seamless integration of various departments is the key to successful enforcement. He is also of the view that automated testing will become compulsory in a few years. At present, he is busy working out a process that makes traffic studies a part of school curriculum What were you ...

What type of technologies were you looking at when you came to TrafficInfraTech Expo? Could you find them? We came looking for various IT solutions like solutions for improving management and punctuality of our buses, vehicle tracking systems, RFID for bus bay systems, systems/ technology for women safety, etc., that could be introduced in our buses. I could find some ...

Leena Nandan, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Road Transport & Highways, Government of India, assures that most of the toll plazas on the National Highways have been connected in the last one year and that the payment solutions, including payment though mobile, are being given the final touch. The roll-out, she promises, can happen in the next six months. How effective ...

Infrastructure Funding has come to play a major role in the field of road infrastructure. This was the subject of discussion at one of the seminars at TrafficInfraTech Expo. Investment dos and don’ts, risks, returns and perspectives from the investors’ and developers’ points of view were some of the aspects discussed. Many contemporary and important subjects were taken up in ...

Mumbai’s Parin Shah Architects has been appointed to design a transit oriented development (TOD) master plan for four major cities of Gujarat. Architect Parin Shah deciphers the details of TOD which is still a fairly new concept in India, and takes us through his Gujarat projects. Transit oriented design is a new upcoming sustainable approach to planning large spaces. The ...