eToll System from Techsture Technologies is an Electronic Toll Collection System. eToll comprises a Lane System and a Plaza System integrated in an architecture that facilitates easy and accurate toll collection. eToll is engineered to meet difficult toll collection situations on Indian roads. It effectively stops revenue leakage, counteracts mischievous behaviors and has a high uptime performance of 99%. It ...
The Traffic Telematics Onboard Unit (QCG 21N) from EFKON India Pvt Ltd is a rugged and robust product that is well suited to the Indian trucking industry. The OBU is compact, tamperproof and without any external visible wiring. Fitted with internal GPS and GSM antennae, it provides accurate and cost-effective GPS location tracking of vehicles. Depending upon the subscription chosen ...
Paytm, a service provider for online mobile and DTH recharges, has introduced online recharge facility for users of the Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway toll plaza. These users can now recharge their smart tags through the Paytm portal. Paytm is also offering attractive deals and discounts on popular consumer brands with every recharge. About 100,000 smart tag users use the expressway and 60% ...
Anywhere Enforcement, which means enforcement at random locations, is a practice that is catching up in India. It uses the deployment of a latest technology package – the Interceptor. The Interceptor is a purpose-configured integrated system that comprises an appropriate vehicle platform, enforcement equipment, accessories, comforts and conveniences for enhancing the practice of Anywhere Enforcement.
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.
The session on the topic ‘The need for, challenges in and advantages of achieving Unified ITS Solutions for Highway & Urban Traffic in India’ was moderated by Sanjeev Kumar Lohia, Officer on Special Duty (OSD), Urban Transport Development and Ex-Officio Joint Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India. The panelists were Vivek Phansalkar, Joint Commissioner of Police – Traffic, Mumbai; Dr CSRK Prasad, Professor & Head, Transportation Division, Department of Civil Engineering, NIT Warangal; Rish Malhotra, Business Director of International Road Dynamics (South East India); Dr Vishwanath, Former Director, (Engineering Services and Projects), Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai; and Ravi Kumar, Joint Director and Project Leader for the collaborative intelligent transportation system in India, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) Thiruvananthapuram.
The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) is planning to introduce in Uttar Pradesh an advanced pollution control system to control the rising pollution levels caused by a large number of polluting vehicles. The system is already functional in Delhi, and if the Uttar Pradesh experiment succeeds, it will gradually be expanded throughout the country. The multi-functional system will ...
The Orissa state government has drawn up a plan to build five Greenfield airports in the state to boost intra-state and interstate trade and tourist air traffic. The state has just one airport at present – the Biju Patnaik Airport in Bhubaneswar, besides 17 airstrips and 16 helipads. The five airports are being planned at the industrial hubs of Rayagada, ...
National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has begun the process of emphasising on the use of RFID for Electronic Toll Collections at the National Highways by inviting Expression of Interest (EOI) from interested stakeholders. It seems serious to take the issue forward soon as it has been updating its website on every development on the issue. NHAI had invited EOI ...
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