Surat Municipal Corporation will add around 150 buses to its existing fleet of city and BRTS buses by early 2019. With this the fleet size will increase to over 560. The civic body is planning to run more than 650 buses in the City on a daily basis with target of achieving ridership of 3.5– 4 lakh by the end ...

The Karnataka government has decided to take up an elevated corridor project to decongest city roads from January 2019. The project is aimed at providing effective modes of transportation, minimising maintenance cost of vehicles and ensuring road safety along with limiting carbon emission. The total length of the first phase corridor is 102.04 km. The project would be taken up ...

NEC Technologies India has bagged a contract to provide command and control centre components and other IoTenabled smart ICT systems for Hubballi Dharwad Smart city limiter.The project is expected to be implemented in a phased manner and will go live by mid-2019. NEC will implement an integrated command and control center, city wide surveillance system and ICT-based solid waste management ...

Goa state Directorate of Transport will soon have Citizen Service Centres (CSC) at all its road transport offices (RTOs). The centres will be equipped to provide a single-window delivery mechanism for various government services. With email and SMS-based status notification at every stage, the system will also be integrated with digi-locker, Aadhaar and a payment gateway.

While the construction work of Mumbai- Ahmadabad High-Speed Rail project is yet to gain momentum, the planning for a new Delhi-Varanasi High Speed Rail project has already started. The distance between Delhi and Varanasi is approximately 750km. Moreover, the Indian Railways is already in process to make small length i.e. 500-800 km of High-Speed Rail corridors instead of making very ...

The national permit vehicles can now ply without two drivers. Besides, there is also no requirement of having dark brown body colour for such vehicles, as was mandatory earlier with amendment in Central Motor Vehicles Rules. The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways made amendments to CMVR 1989. Henceforth, National Permit or N/P would be inscribed in the front and ...

With Chennai Corporation getting a nod to implement Red Light Violation Detection (RVLD) system by installing ANPR cameras under Smart City, catching of red-light violators and managing traffic at busy junctions of the city are set to get automated. The ANPR cameras will be powered by Optical Character Recognition technology to read the number plates of violating vehicles. The system ...

The Delhi government planning to redesign its streets to make it safer for those using the footpath.The state government has roped in Former Commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation, who will work along with an NGO – Savelife Foundation on redesigning the national capital’s streets to make them safe and walkable. The first priority is to redesign ...

Contract vehicles in UP can no longer be red, maroon or black. The state government recently passed an amendment to the motor vehicle regulations, determining the colour of various contract vehicles and also making it compulsory for bike taxis to function on permits. Under the amendment, while a bike can be of any colour other than the three prohibited colours, ...

Driving licences may soon get a cosmetic and functional overhaul if the Centre’s draft proposal for changes to the document is accepted by the states. The new driving licences will be made of polycarbonate cards with a high-security QR code instead of the laminated cards that are currently in use. The licences would make authenticity easier for the commuters while ...