The Tamil Nadu government has announced plans for major road infrastructure construction. As part of the pans, two multi-lane flyovers in Chennai and a subway in the southern stretch of the Inner Ring Road near Puzhuthivakkam will be built. About 250km of highways will be widened in the expanded city limits of Chennai. Road safety in urban areas will be ...

The Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRCL) has floated a tender for the construction of the Car Depot for the Mumbai Metro at Aarey Colony, Goregaon. The Car Depot, which will be part of the 32.5 Km long Colaba-Bandra-Seepz underground metro, is worth Rs. 129.32cr. The tender work specifications include the ground development at Metro Line-3 Car Depot, construction of a ...

The Madhya Pradesh government has launched a drive to check the fitness of vehicles registered more than 15 years ago in Indore and other cities. The vehicles not found to be fit will be taken off the roads. The move is expected to reduce air pollution in the cities, especially Indore, which has been declared one of the cities with the ...

The World Bank will support the National Highways Inter-connectivity Improvement Project (NHIIP) with a $500m investment. The funding will help extend highway network connectivity in less developed states and improve the capacity of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways to manage the highway network in the country. Under the project, about 1120km of existing single or intermediate lanes of ...

Delhi Integrated Multi Modal Transit System Ltd (DIMTS) has launched an application for the web and Android mobiles that helps commuters plan their road trips in the city. When the commuter at a bus stop types in the route number of the bus required, the application gives the list of bus stops covered by the route number and the estimated ...

The Pune Municipal Corporation has proposed that traffic violators be made to pay an increased insurance premium. The Corporation plans to share violation data gathered from the Intelligent Traffic System (ITS) with insurance companies. The ITS is expected to be operational in four months, after it receives approval by the civic body. A network of fibre optic cables for the ...

Hope Foundation, a Bangalore based NGO, in collaboration with Volvo India, plans to launch an initiative to train about 50,000 high school pupils across Karnataka and about 5,000 women from villages and city slums in the next one year. The pupils and women will be educated on the importance of using footpaths while walking, being alert while crossing roads and ...

NASA has delivered a new software – the Precision Departure Release Capability (PDRC) – developed by it, to the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The software which will help air traffic controllers (ATC) speed up aircraft departures, will help reduce missed or delayed departures, and thus improve overall air traffic management. The surface model component of will precisely predict both ...

The Gujarat government has put the Rs. 19,000cr Gandhinagar-Ahmedabad metro project on the fast track. Work on the first phase of the project is scheduled to begin in October. The project which is based on the advanced Communication Based Train Control (CBTC) technology will have driverless trains in the near future. The Special Purpose Vehicle for the project has begun ...

The Prime Minister?s Office has approved 17 major infrastructure projects in the current fiscal year. These include the Mumbai elevated rail corridor, a major port, a greenfield airport in Navi Mumbai and locomotive projects. These projects have been identified by key infrastructure ministries and the progress will be monitored on a regular basis. Among the major road projects, Eastern Peripheral ...