CarCharging, a US based provider of electric vehicle (EV)  charging services has filed a provisional patent application for an electric vehicle charging station with a toggle unit. The new charging station can charge multiple vehicles without inserting or removing plugs during charging. Due to this ability to simultaneously charge many vehicles, it will solve problems such as other electric vehicle ...

The Indian Railways is planning to introduce high speed trains on important corridors. The corridors will be constructed on a Public Private Partnership (PPP) basis. While pre-feasibility studies will be conducted to run trains at 350kmph, another study will be conducted on the Delhi-Mumbai route to increase the speed from 160kmph to 200 kmph. Along with this, the Railways is ...

The Central government has given five airports in the country – Lucknow, Varanasi, Coimbatore, Mangalore and Tiruchirapalli –international status. These five airports have the requisite infrastructure such as immigration and customs facilities, larger terminals to facilitate international operations. All other infrastructure facilities such as aerobridges, the required runway length to accommodate large aircraft needed for international operations, navigational & visual ...

Reliance Infrastructure (RInfra)’s special purpose vehicle DA Toll Road has begun work on widening and tolling the 180km Delhi-Agra road. The project which is estimated to cost Rs. 29.45 billion involves tolling four to six lanes of the road. Each toll plaza will have a control room to quickly locate accidents and offer other security and safety related services for ...

Salt Lake City in the US, in collaboration with parking and enforcement technology developer Aparc System, has awarded a contract to mobile payment platform provider QuickPay to offer mobile parking payment facilities to the city drivers. Programmes such as parking plans, coupons, dynamic pricing and automated validations from local businesses can be easily executed on the QuickPay platform. The new ...

Road Expo 2012, Scotland’s largest traffic management and highway maintenance event, will be held from November 7-8 2012 at the Royal Highland Centre, Edinburgh. Road Expo provides road professionals the latest developments in technology and implications of legislative changes. Over one hundred leading suppliers including BEAR/Eurovia, Peek Traffic, Siemens, Tarmac, Swarco Traffic and Acklea will showcase their latest products and ...

International Road Dynamics Inc. (IRD) will present and exhibit at the 2012 Transportation Association of Canada (TAC) Annual Conference in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada from October 14-17. The TAC Conference features a wide variety of technical, social, professional and networking events over three and a half days. IRD will highlight it’s ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems) for commercial vehicle safety and ...

Rapid MetroRail Gurgaon Limited has awarded a Rs. 2100 crore contract to a consortium of IL&FS Transportation Networks Ltd and its subsidiary IL&FS Rail Ltd for extending the Rapid Metro Rail of Gurgaon by 6.5km towards the southern parts of the city. The extension will have 6 metro stations which will be covered in about 18 minutes. The project which ...

The Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation near Pune in Maharashtra is in the process of implementing a plan to improve traffic and implement road safety measures at 50 traffic junctions. The plan was developed after a joint survey undertaken by the traffic and civic officials of the city sometime back. The plan involves improvement at traffic junctions, providing safe pedestrian crossings, creation ...

Yamuna Expressway, in the State of Uttar Pradesh, is an ITS marvel. The 165kms long Expressway that was thrown open to the public on August 9 this year, and has cost the Jaypee Group `11,000 crore, is the country’s longest six-laned (extendable to eight lanes) access controlled concrete pavement stretch and is signal-free. It has reduced the distance between Agra and Delhi to around 211kms and the travel time between the two cities to 150 minutes, and between Greater Noida and the tourist hotspot to just 90 minutes. TrafficInfraTech took a ride on the Expressway on the eve of its inauguration. The Zero point being blocked for arrangements for the opening ceremony, the onward journey towards the control room at first main Toll Plaza located at Jewar (38kms from Greater Noida), took the vehicle through underpasses, service roads, the villages and of course, along Jaypees’s Buddh International Formula one track. Mangala Chandran on the experience and the technological marvel that is Yamuna Expressway.