On February 2, 2011 when the nation’s capital woke up to a chilly morning, not many realised the excitement NSIC Exhibition Complex at Okhla would generate two or three hours later. For, very soon the who’s who of the transport industry, related with road safety, traffic & transport solutions and traffic management in some way or the other, began making ...

Traffic Cones from White Plaast are long life UV stabilised products. Made from virgin polyethylene, they can withstand severe weather conditions. They have retro-reflective stickers fixed on them for enhanced night vision. For stability in high wind areas, they have rubber bases. They can be linked together with the provided chain links. A variant of the traffic cone is the ...

Bhopal is on the move. Integrated centres and traffic junctions to provide real-time information & help in effective traffic management and integrated security systems & communication systems aided by GPRS/GSM and wireless networks are giving the policeman on the road a new identity. Purushottam Sharma, Inspector General of Police (SCRB), Bhopal has now proposed the use of e-challans integrated with camera, smart card and credit card readers and the traffic control rooms, to help in booking the traffic offenders on the spot.

In this Decade for Action on Road Safety, the best beginning to safer roads is by religiously taking up Road Safety Audits during the planning and designing stage itself. Dr Nishi Mittal, Head of Traffic Engineering & Safety at Central Road Research Institute, writes on the impediments faced in India on performing RSAs. Road accidents are a major cause of ...

Governments and several agencies in North America are adopting various measures to motivate people to walk and bicycle more in a safe environment. The effort is showing results.

Airports, malls, hospitals, railway junctions all present formidable challenges in traffic management and are seeing significant benefits from using integrated parking management solutions. A case in example is of Terminal T4 at Barajas International Airport, Madrid where, ParkHelp, MassTrans India’s partner, implemented a total parking solution. (Snapshot provided below) Spain’s Barajas International Airport is the 13th busiest airport in the ...

A complete parking solution cannot be looked at only from the point of view of the user. The needs of the builder and the operator too must be taken into consideration. A guide and a case study by MassTrans Systems.

Delhi now has a state-of-the-art Operations Control Centre (OCC). Recently inaugurated by the Chief Minister of Delhi, Sheila Dikshit, it is located at the ISBT building, Kashmere Gate. The OCC is a highly sophisticated traffic monitoring and control system set up by the Delhi Integrated Multi-Modal Transit System (DIMTS) Ltd which will monitor the traffic situation in the city and ...

The US Department of Transportation (USDOT) released the results of a study by NASA engineers – experts in computer controlled electronic systems, electromagnetic interference and software integrity – of the unintended acceleration that rocked Toyota last year prompting withdrawal of several hundred thousand Toyota cars from the US market. The NASA engineers, commissioned by the US regulatory body The National ...

Denver International Airport (DEN) at Colorado, USA has decided to use a new Airport Surface Management System – Aerobahn made by Sensis Coporation, New York. Aerobahn will provide all service providers at DEN –such as airlines, airport operators, air navigation service providers and deicing companies who share related interests – a common platform for sharing information and monitoring of the ...