Mumbai Traffic Police and the advertising company Draftfcb+Ulka jointly brought out the book, ?Drive Safe Mumbai?, a compilation of the most effective safety campaigns appeared over the last 20 years on the hoarding at a prominent traffic junction at Babulnath in south Mumbai. The book was launched by Amitabh Bachchan, in the presence of minister Jayant Patil, Javed Akhtar, Dr. ...
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New ATC tower inaugurated in Mumbai
The recently inaugurated ATC tower at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport is India?s tallest, with a height of 83.8m and built within an area of 2,800sqm at CSIA. The location and the height of the tower will enable the tower controllers to have unobstructed view of the entire operational area, and help in optimising air traffic separation and increase the ...
Delta Video Wall powers NTPC?s SACS Centre
Delta Displays, an international provider of visual solutions recently supplied the latest Video Wall solutions for the SACS (Special Analytics and Computational Services) Centre of NTPC Ltd, India?s largest power company. The Centre, based at Noida, is an NTPC initiative for continually monitoring the reliability & performance characteristics of its key assets, decrease maintenance costs and reduce outages. The Centre ...
Jaipur Metro work begins
Work on Phase IB of the Jaipur metro began this October. This consists of a 1.4km long tunnel and 400m of-and-cover tunnel being constructed by the Indian office of Taiwanese company Continental Engineering Corp. The company will also design and construct two underground stations, under a `5.07bn, 36-month contract. Meanwhile test runs are being carried out on a 2.4km section ...
Faster suburban trains for Mumbai under test
The prototype of a new 12-car stainless steel EMU (Electrical Multiple Unit) rake from Bombardier Corporation, running on 25KVAC traction arrived in Mumbai for tests after a long delay. The rake, manufactured by the Integral Coach Factory in Chennai, was procured by the Mumbai Railway Vikas Corporation under the Mumbai Urban Transport Project (MUTP) II project. Around 70 modifications were ...
New driving support system from Toyota
Toyota Motors has developed Automated Highway Driving Assist (AHDA) system ? a new driving support system combining two automated driving technologies to enable safe highway driving. AHDA integrates two technologies: Cooperative-Adaptive Cruise Control and Lane Trace Control. The former uses the 700-MHz band to wirelessly communicate with preceding vehicles through vehicle-to-vehicle ITS communications. This allows the following vehicles to adjust ...
Akshaya launches Road Safety educational campaign
Akshaya Pvt Ltd, a real estate company in Chennai recently launched a campaign to educate school children in the state about road, internet and personal safety. A book titled ?Kidwise? was launched by Rajalakhmi Parathasarathy, the founder and dean of PSBB schools on the occasion. More than 50 schools will be covered in the first phase of the campaign. Posters ...
India needs transport fuel saving standards
According to a report from the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), India is the only major vehicle producing country in the world without fuel saving standards for cars. More than 40% of the nations? oil and oil products are consumed for running vehicles, but no serious efforts towards evolving a fuel saving roadmap for the transport sector have been ...
New Panasonic technology for safer intersections
Panasonic has developed new millimetre-wave technologies that can separately detect cars, pedestrians and bicycles and can pave the way for the development of safety systems to avoid accidents occurring at intersections. The high precision, wide field of view millimetre-wave technologies are capable of separately detecting cars, pedestrians and bicycles in less than 0.1 second, provided they are separated by 20cm. ...
Five companies respond to Mumbai Sewri-Worli corridor bid requests
The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA)?s request for bids to construct 4.25 km long Sewri-Worli elevated corridor in Mumbai has found response from five companies – Gammon India Ltd., Hindustan Construction Company Ltd., Larsen & Tubro Ltd., N.C.C. Limited and Simplex Infrastructure Ltd. The corridor starts from the Sewri interchange of the Mumbai Trans Harbour Link (MTHL) near Sewri ...