In the construction of roads and bridges, Reinforced Soil wall technology is strongly emerging as a preferred option due to its advantages over the conventional systems such as masonry walls & RCC retaining walls. Indian road sector will be seeing a huge investment in the coming years. There is a target of construction of 30km ( or 41km as planned ...

Kistler’s Lineas Strip WIM sensor comes with all the advantages for applications such as traffic data collection, overload detection, bridge protection, tolling, pavement planning & traffic research. The company has installed more than 3000 installations worldwide including India. Roads & Highways are built with huge investments. The ROI takes years to be claimed back. Damages of the roads caused by ...

India is  on the fast track . Metros, expressways, highways… But many a time, stations have been opened without feeder services, parking lots or  security services.  If proper traffic volume estimation is not done, it can lead to insufficient booths at toll plazas. Again traffic volume estimation is necessary for deciding the number of lanes- four or six –in highways. ...

The North America based Logix ITS, a global leader in traffic and parking solutions   launched its India office early this year offering Intelligent Traffic and Parking Solutions.  The company has  already completed a project at the Delhi Airport and JLN Marg, Jaipur. Logix ITS also offers speed cameras for  detecting traffic violations.  Prashant Mathur, Director- Logix ITS,  spoke to TrafficInfraTech. ...

The Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation and Public Works Department, are toying with the idea of using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, to monitor round-the-clock traffic and road conditions on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway and eastern and western express highways respectively. Drones are used on a large scale for traffic management in the US and China. They inform toll operators, ...

Simpark Infrastructure Pvt Ltd is a Special purpose vehicle of Simplex Projects Ltd. to bring about revolutionary changes in Parking management. Head quartered in Kolkata, the company has over 2000 car space installations across India.  RD Mundhra, Director, speaks about the advantagesof different parking systems being provided by the company. SimPark provides various car parking technologies but which technology has ...

On a normal working day, 40% of road space in any average sized Indian city is used for parking rather than movement of traffic. More and more Indian cities are seeing parking a crisis. Converting this problem into business opportunity are A. S. Mohan Kumar, the young engineering graduate from London and Shravanthi Kumar who got into a joint venture ...

Fast Tracking Public Mobility In India, we have today 76 cities with population over a million. As per the urban transport policy of India, metro rail technology (MRT), a proven and established solution in urban mobility, is envisaged in cities with population exceeding two million and is presently being mooted in more than 20 cities. Although commendable work has been ...

Concrete overlays offer immense potential as a rehabilitation strategy for Indian roads, writes Binod Kumar, Senior Scientist, Central Road Research Institute. Concrete is a very durable material for the construction of roads and highways. Several hi ghways, expressways and city roads have been constructed with cement concrete in the recent past in India. Cement concrete has been also used for ...

ePARK developed by CDAC helps motorists find convenient parking space quickly in a multi-level parking area. Satheesh G, Joint Director – Intelligent Transportation and Networking Section, C-DAC explains how the system helps in reducing frustration and enhance the overall travel experience. ePark has recently been put in place at a multi-level parking by Pune Municipal Corporation. The system includes elements ...