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Efkon wins ITS and tolling contracts

Efkon India, a subsidiary of the Austria-based Efkon Group, has recently received tolling and ITS contracts worth `430m. The first contract from Maruti Suzuki includes installing tracking boxes and backend solutions in 3,000 trucks. The second contract from Oriental Structural Engineers is for providing a complete ITS solution for the Nagpur Bypass project which includes Advanced Traffic Management System (ATMS) ...

BEML to separate rail business

Bangalore-based BEML, manufacturer of heavy equipment for the transport, mining and earth-moving sectors, has decided to split its rail business into a separate entity to better manage, and take advantage of, the high demand for rail rolling stock in the country. Of the company’s revenue of about `5000 crore for the 2010 fiscal year, `1300 crore was earned from its ...

Shaping the Future of Transportation

Monitoring and reporting of a vehicle’s carbon footprint in real-time can revolutionise the way we drive, manage our vehicles and affect the environment

Railways to build more foot overbridges

In order to provide better infrastructure and arrest the problem of increasing accidents on the railway tracks, both the Western Railway (WR) and Central Railway (CR) have decided to build new foot overbridges (FOBs) in Mumbai soon. The WR will construct 40 FOBs while the CR is going in for 10 FOBs across stations. Also, the WR will convert all ...

Surat Bus Terminal to have plazas, gardens

Surat might soon have a bus terminal that will have plazas, terraces, courtyards, gardens and public facilities. The proposal of such a mixed design has been given by Space Matrix Design Consultants who are the consultants for the project. The agency’s concept has the terminal on a raised ground plane that will extend to the bund and the river. The ...

ITS paves the way in Canada

The pace of ITS technology deployment in Canada is increasing steadily. The Canadian Government, under the $2.1 billion Gateways and Border Crossings Fund (GBCF) programme, has allocated $400 million for the construction of new access roads, equipped with state-of-the-art ITS technologies for surveillance, real-time traveller information, fully-automated border clearance and commercial vehicle operation system technologies.

Licences of drunk drivers to be revoked

Maharashtra government is planning to cancel the licences of drivers who drink and drive. Alarmed by the rising number of road accidents due to drunk driving, the Home Department and Regional Traffic Office (RTO) have decided to take this strict action. There were 57,000 cases of drunk driving during the last three years, of which 867 were on New Year’s ...

Tata Steel Highways launched

Tata Steel Construction Products has announced the launch of Tata Steel Highways to address the requirements of the highways industry. It has been created by bringing together all the highways containment solutions previously available with various businesses of Tata Steel including Vetex™ and Protect 365©. All the subsidiaries of Corus have been rebranded under the Tata Steel Group. With this ...

Beijing will issue fewer licences

Beijing Municipal government has decided to limit the number of new licence plates to be issued per year to 240,000. This has been done with the aim of reducing traffic congestion in China’s capital. Last year’s monster traffic jam that had lasted for days together raising an alarm all over the world might have been the trigger point for this. ...

Vehicle Safety: It’s time for a revolution!

A revolution is taking place in Pedestrian Protection. While immense research is on in passive and active safety, it is important to accomplish new tests scenario where preventive safety systems are allowed to be kept in active crash tests