Deepak Kumar, Chairman of National Highways Authority of India launched a new multilingual website of the organization. The general public would be able to rate the National Highways through this website within two months. The chairman also launched a Project Monitoring Information System (PMIS) Mobile App that will facilitate close, in-house monitoring of NHAI projects on a mobile phone. NHAI ...

Delhi, September 27, 2016: The Economic Times Infra Focus Summit charmed Delhi with delegates discussing on innovations in the world of infrastructure, real estate & its trends impacting both India and global areas. It threw light on positive market sentiments & growth, for India’s economy to reach another level in becoming a stable nation, focusing on improving quality of life ...

Tata Motors is working with French auto major Dassault to produce an electric car eMO that would cost around र10 lakh. The company’s Vehicle Programs & Development (VPD) Group which operates from four centres of excellence – Pune, Detroit in the US, Coventry in the UK and Stuttgart in Germany – and has about 300 engineers, developed the eMO concept ...

A plan to ease traffic congestion in Jaipur and increase the speed of vehicles by up to 30% has been drawn up by a team consisting of Bajrang Lal Swami, a professor in civil engineering from the Malaviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT), and Ritu Sharma and Hemant Sharma, both engineers from the Rajasthan Urban Infrastructure Project (RUIDP). The plan, ...

German multinational Siemens AG has teamed with parking services provider Streetline to launch a smart parking project in Braunschweigh, Germany. The city has already completed the installation of parking sensors and networking equipment needed for the project. The equipment will monitor real-time data in parking locations to determine availability of parking space. This parking information is then distributed to drivers ...

INRIX, a US based provider of traffic information and intelligent traffic services has developed a traffic application for Android users. The application generates traffic information by analysing real-time data from road sensors, traffic incident reports, crowd-sourced data and other public and private sources. The principal aim of the application is to help motorists tackle rising fuel prices. The application gives ...

The Pune police will make wearing helmets compulsory for motorists riding two wheelers. Before enforcing the new rule, the city police will conduct an extensive awareness campaign to educate motorists and commuters. The police will also distribute helmets to 2,000 police personnel as a part of the campaign. A CD on traffic awareness has also been launched on the occasion ...

The Indian Railways has launched RailRadar, an online application to help passengers track real time movement of trains. RailRadar is an interactive map on Google that can be accessed through the railway website trainenquiry.com. The application has been developed by the Centre for Railway Information System (CRIS) in collaboration with RailYatri.com. About 6,500 trains can be tracked in real-time using ...

Toyota Motor Company is recalling 7.4 million cars and trucks worldwide due to a problem of defective power window switches in the vehicles. The defective switches can stick, cause smoke and potentially cause fires. The switches get sticky due to wear over time; this combined with the grease applied to them at the manufacturing stage causes them to overheat. The ...

Bombardier Transportation has announced it will supply diesel locomotives to Electromotive Diesels (EMD) for export to Southeast Asia and the Pacific region. Under an agreement signed between the two companies Bombardier will manufacture components such as under-frames and bogies and assemble the locomotives at its Savli plant in Gujarat. EMD will provide the technology for engineering and quality control and ...