The design of Munich?s new C2 type underground train has won two awards: the Universal Design Award 2013 and the Universal Design Consumer Favorite 2013 award. The design is the work of internationally-renowned Munich vehicle designer Alexander Neumeister, the founder of N+P Industrial Design. As with the previous version it was developed in close conjunction with Munich Public Transportation Company ...
San Francisco will test energy-saving streetlights and wireless systems in three areas across the city in 2013, and, if successful, the technology will be used to control 18,500 lights and other equipment, such as traffic signals and surveillance cameras. Under the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission?s (SFPUC) pilot programme, eight companies have been chosen to showcase their wireless streetlight systems. ...
The University of Michigan just announced that its 2013 World Solar Challenge vehicle will look more like a regular car than any of its past ca Called ?Generation,? the new vehicle will buck the three-wheeled design of its predecessor and add a fourth wheel and an upright seat. Although it will still be a far cry from normal cars, the ...
Feeback Brisa Highways OMT Private Limited, a joint venture between Feedback Infrastructure Services Private Limited and Brisa, Auto-estradas de Portugal ? one of the Europe?s largest motorway companies, will implement the latest Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) project on national highway NH-8. The project, which is being initially implemented on a pilot basis, promises to significantly reduce wait times at toll ...
The Maharashtra government has approved a ? 4,028 crore budget for MMRDA for 2013-14. The budget has allocated ? 600 crore for the Extended Mumbai Urban Infrastructure Project including construction of six flyovers, completion of the Santacruz-Chembur Link Road, foot over bridges, service roads and beautification of spaces under the flyovers, the resettlement of? Tilak Nagar residents over 90km of ...
The Bombay High Court has suggested the railways to set up emergency medical centers near railway stations and some other spots on the Mumbai suburban network that are accident prone. More than 3,500 persons lost their lives in suburban train accidents in Mumbai last year. It has suggested medical centers on the lines of the only one existing at Dadar ...
Sadbhav Engineering has bagged a ? 12 billion contract from the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to develop four lanes on a 98.81km stretch of NH-10 in Haryana. The project has a concession period of 22 years and will be executed on a design-build-finance operate-and-transfer (DBFOT) basis under phase III of the National Highways Development Project. Another project it ...
FLIR Systems Inc, a provider of thermal imaging systems, automotive night vision system, and personal vision thermal cameras recently acquired Traficon International NV, a leading provider of intelligent video detection solutions for traffic applications which include automatic incident detection, traffic data collection and intersection vehicle & pedestrian presence detection. After the acquisition, the company expects its thermal imaging technology to ...
ZF Friedrichshafen AG?s new plastic engine mount is being used in Renault-Nissan?s electric as well as small and compact cars. The plastic engine mount is a high performance product that dampens vibrations as effectively as the earlier rubber-metal versions but is approximately 25% lighter. The engine mount housing uses fibber glass reinforced polyamide instead of aluminum continuous casting to reduce ...
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