Ever since the 701 km Mumbai-Nagpur Expressway or Samruddhi Mahamarg was inaugurated and completed with a total of 1699 structures including flyovers, viaducts, major and minor bridges, tunnels and interchanges, it has been in the news for increased number of road accidents. The silver lining in this otherwise dark cloud is that the number of accidents and deaths have marginally ...

Established in 1995, Avantech Engineering Consortium Pvt Ltd has been providing innovative technologies to promote and support the construction industry and civil engineering profession in India. Parampreet Singh, Managing Director, talks to TrafficInfratech on his company’s efforts to improve road safety in India. How far do you think we have progressed on improving safety on Indian roads? There is a ...

Amsterdam is in the news for the world’s largest first underwater bike garage in the heart of the city, a parking structure that can store 7,000 bicycles in a submerged facility at the central train station. The Stationsplein bicycle garage at the front of Amsterdam Central Station is part of a sophisticated infrastructure project to modernize the station in the ...

Sieger Parking, a Coimbatore-headquartered provider of automated and multi-level car parking systems, has expanded its footprint to Western India with the opening of a new regional office in Mumbai. The new Mumbai office will have dedicated sales, project management, and service teams. Sieger plans to accelerate project execution timelines, deepen engagement with developers and municipal bodies, and provide fully integrated ...

TRL Software’s innovative iROADS asset management platform has recently been awarded the 2025 IRF Global Road Achievement Award for Climate Resilience and Adaptation, recognising its pivotal role in strengthening Kerala’s road infrastructure against climate challenges. The award celebrates TRL Software’s successful delivery of a web-based Road Maintenance Management System (RMMS) for the Kerala Public Works Department as part of the ...

Ranjan Dhar, Director and Vice President, Sales & Marketing at ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India (AM/NS India), said, “We are proud to have received the first licence of the technology for steel slag valorisation used for conversion of steel slag as road-making aggregates. This achievement builds upon our previous involvement in successfully building what is possibly the world’s first one-kilometre, six-lane ...

Steel, slag is 30-40 per cent more cost-effective and lasts up to three times longer than standard bitumen roads. It is suitable for various environments, from coastal regions to rugged terrains. The Indian Ministry of Steel awarded a national project to study steel slag in road construction. India’s first ‘all steel slag road’ was built in Hazira using specially designed ...

As per the reports, Tesla plans to offer a chauffeur-style service operated by human drivers to a limited number of people in the San Francisco Bay Area. For the Bay Area service, Tesla may be able to use its Full Self-Driving (Supervised) feature, which can perform many driving tasks but requires a human driver to pay attention and be ready ...

Indian Railways has recently successfully tested the first hydrogen-powered coach or Driving Power Car successfully at the Integral Coach Factory (ICF) in Chennai. The ICF project is significant for the Railways as this will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increase the share of renewable energy in its energy mix and reduce dependence on fossil fuels. As per the Ministry of ...

Satish Pandey, Senior Principal Scientist at CSIR-CRRI and inventor of the technology, said, “The steel slag road technology is a game-changer for India’s road infrastructure. The country generates over 19 million tonnes of steel slag annually, and the direct use of untreated steel slag poses a significant risk to the mechanical properties and durability of the steel slag-derived composites. With ...