Highway Traffic Management System (HTMS) involves inflow of information regarding the road status to the road management. It will involve information like traffic hold-up and accidents. HTMS also pertains to subsequent decision making by the road management (Operations) company based on the above information. This might include sending a patrol vehicle to regulate traffic or an ambulance to the accident ...
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Immigration Gates for passenger identity verification
Magnetic Autocontrol, a leading traffic solution provider specialising in barriers, has come up with a high security application for immigration control or management. The application, Immigration Gates, can be used at airports, sea ports or in-land border crossings, for authorising access to any of these places. For this, measurable physical characteristics like finger print, face recognition or palm geometry are ...
Solar powered lighting for flyover
Hyderabad’s hi-tech city flyover that was inaugurated recently by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Dr K Rosaiah is the first flyover in the country that uses solar energy for its lighting. Energy efficient Sodium Oxide (SOX) lamps, charged by solar power, are used to light up the flyover. The system has been designed and implemented by Tata BP Solar Ltd through ...
Qutab Minar Metro Corridor Opens For Commuter Operations
The underground Central Secretariat – Qutab Minar Metro corridor of Delhi Metro opened for commuters recently. The 12.53km long corridor is a part of Central Secratariat (CTST) – HUDA City Centre (Gurgaon) Metro corridor. It directly links the city with Gurgaon – another satellite town of the National Capital Region (NCR) after NOIDA in Uttar Pradesh. It has 11 metro ...
Charkop-Bandra-Mankhurd Metro route to have a Circle of Influence
Areas around metro stations in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) will be developed as “Circle of Influence”. This concept initiated by UPS Madan, Director, MTSU, involves an area of 500 square metres around metro stations to be developed as business hubs. For this, the government will give out incentives like higher FSI as it would help get a favourable response. ...
Castrol India’s Journey towards Zero Accident…
Unfortunately, many drivers and riders, especially in developing countries, do not do any pre journey planning and driver training and discipline is limited. Add to that a rapidly growing vehicle population; with the result that countries like China and India account for the largest number of road accidents in the world – with India holding the dubious distinction of topping ...
Safeguarding our roads
Envoys Electronics has been a pioneer in Traffic Safety equipment in India. Its Chairman Mahendra Singh Kohli has been a member of the IS Panel which formulated the IS Standard Specifications for Road Safety Signals in 1964. He and the company’s Managing Director Rasmeet Singh Kohli spoke with TrafficInfraTech on the innovations in safety equipment and the latest in signaling ...
Makeover for Flyover
Ashok Datar, Chairman, Mumbai Environment Network emphasises the need for optimum use of space under flyovers and the efficacy of the disarmingly simple concept of providing right turning lanes under them. After a year-long study of Mumbai’s Santa Cruz flyover, he has proposed a makeover plan. The pictures of filthy bathrooms, broken staircases and marble sinks with stains of spit ...
World’s longest tunnel to open in 2017
World’s longest tunnel at Sedrun, Switzerland is now ready. Technically difficult to drill, the tunnel is very expensive. On October 15 this year, Swiss engineers cut the last part of the rock with a drilling machine named Sissi. The tunnel was conceived in 1947. The 57km (35.4 mile) long Gotthard Base rail tunnel has been hailed as an environmental triumph ...