Vehicle Tracking System (VTS) from Centre for Development and Advanced Computing (C-DAC) provides real-time information on the location of vehicles and their movement. The system consists of Intelligent Tracking Units (iTRAC), Base Station Unit (BSU) and VTS Server with necessary application software. Location information of a vehicle is obtained using GPS and constantly updated using a GSM/GPRS network. The GPS, ...
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Wireless IP Cameras
Wireless IP Camera 200 Series from Bosch is a ready-to-use, complete network surveillance system. With its compact housing and wireless connectivity, it can easily be mounted in any indoor setting. The H.264 compression technology gives clear images with reduced bandwidth and minimal storage requirements. The integrated wireless LAN supports IEEE 802.11b/g standards. It also offers trouble-free interconnection with other devices ...
Infrastructure Management Services
Egis Infra Management India Pvt Ltd offers Operations and Maintenance (O&M) services for traffic management and toll services. Services offered include toll collection, traffic and safety management, intervention on accidents, customer relationship management / service to the clients, asset management (highway & equipment maintenance) and value engineering (optimised organisation and planning of heavy repairs). Egis Infra Management can assist its ...
Traffic Data Collection Services
KritiiKal Solutions offers traffic data collection surveys and services under the brand name TRAZER (Traffic AnalyZer and EnumeratoR). TRAZER is used in a variety of applications such as planning of highways, toll lanes and city roads, ATCC (Automatic Traffic Counting and Classification)/AVCC (Automatic Vehicle Counting and Classification) applications, traffic census, traffic monitoring, traffic pattern analysis, driver behaviour analysis as well ...
High volume traffic barriers
CAME, a leading manufacturer of automated access control products has launched its new Gard 3 line of barriers. These are especially suited to handle quick passages in public parking lots, hospitals, motorways and any other facilities with high traffic density, even in severe weather. Being made of either galvanised steel or AISI 304 steel with epoxy powder coatings, they can ...
New Highways Act in Tamil Nadu
The Tamil Nadu government is planning to expedite the process for land acquisition for development of its highways by legislating a new Highways Act. It is finding it difficult to acquire land for broadening the state highways and constructing bypasses with about 3,202 hectares of land out of a total of 7,874 hectares needed, still remaining to be acquired. The ...
BS IV compliant fuel in 50 more cities by 2015
The Union government plans to progressively introduce BS (Bharat Stage)-IV compliant fuels in 50 more cities by 2015. In 2012 BS-IV fuel was introduced in seven cities – Puducherry, Mathura, Vapi, Jamnagar, Ankleshwar, Hissar and Bharatpur. BS-IV fuel was first made available in metro cities such as Mumbai, Delhi/NCR, Kolkata and Chennai and some tier 2 cities such as Hyderabad, ...
Highways development requires Rs.200 crore every day
A report by a Parliamentary panel, the Committee on Estimates, has estimated that an investment of र200 crore is needed every day for the next 15-20 years to upgrade and widen highways in the country to international standards. The project to implement this would cost about rupees three lakh crore and would put projects for bidding in seven phases. The ...
Transition – world’s first flying car completes first test flight
Transition – the first flying car being developed by US-based Terrafugia Inc – has undergone its inaugural test flight. The test saw the car flying for eight minutes at an altitude of about 1,400 feet. The car can run 70mph on the road while in the air it can fly at 115mph. The car, which runs on normal automotive fuel, ...
Singapore to encourage public transport
The Land Transport Authority (LTA) in Singapore is working on plans to encourage the travelling public to use public transport more often, reduce the use of cars, and travel more during off-peak hours. As a part of the initiative, the agency has appointed a consultant to design workplace-based travel plan programmes for three organisations, and to assist three others with ...