Yojiro Oshima, a design student at the Craft & Industrial Department at Musashino Art University in Tokyo, has designed a completely hand-crafted wooden bicycle. The wooden bike features a sculptural wooden frame that softens the ride while retaining an optimal level of stiffness. Yojiro used hollowed-out 6-12mm sections and bonded them together to create a network of rims and spokes. ...

Alstom Transport, part of the Paris-based Alstom Group, is planning to transform its engineering facility at Bangalore into a global research and development hub. The facility which employs at present about 300 personnel, developing applications and products for its rail signalling projects in Asia and Europe, will be expanded to include a team focused on research, engineering and development of ...

In today?s age of massive urbanisation, strong efforts are being made to find alternative, sustainable and economical modes of transport. Bicycle, in such a scenario, comes right at the top. Hitesh Mehta, MD and CEO of Protek, who facilitated the construction of Mumbai?s first Segregated Cycle Lane, answers some quick questions.   What is a segregated cycle lane? And why ...

Dr Guruprasad Mohapatra, Municipal Commissioner, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation tells TrafficInfraTech that in order to bring a method to administering the city, the Corporation has decided that certain roads will have no vendors, and certain zones will be no encroachment zones. It is also forcing the road facing shops and malls to have adequate parking and is allowing three wheelers to ...

Solar LED Lights from Solaris is an investment product that pays back within 5?8 years of investment. It helps to reduce energy cost by 50-70% and decrease carbon footprint and light pollution. It has a design life of 20 years and Solaris offers free maintenance for these 20 years. The use of these lights provides for better spacing between poles, ...

Automatic Siding Door for BRTS from Technocrats Security Systems Pvt Ltd has been widely used in the Janmarg BRTS, Ahmedabad. When the bus arrives at the station bay and the bus doors and bus station doors align with each other, the bus driver presses a switch to open the bus doors and then presses the RF remote open button switch ...

Street Furniture from Bajaj Engineering & Projects, a division of Bajaj Electricals Ltd includes standard and customised products such as Lighting Poles and Columns for Street lighting / Area lighting, highmasts, polygonal poles for traffic signals and polygonal poles for signage. These lighting poles are used in street illumination as well as for traffic signals at traffic intersections. Poles above ...

Video Management system from Trafitek Solutions Pvt Ltd is used in urban traffic situations for surveillance, incident detection, enforcement and detecting vehicle presence at intersections. The system, which includes fixed & PTZ (Pan, Tilt and Zoom) cameras and web-based incident management software, enables the automatic, smart detection of certain changes in the traffic behaviour and classifies these changes as traffic ...

SmartXS from Systems Pvt Ltd is an IP based Multi-Door Access Control System which provides different access control & identification systems to meet modern security needs. It is compatible with any Wiegand Reader and has a 32-bit RISC Processor and comes in two versions ? 2-door and 4-door controllers. It can store information of up to 10,000 users and 30,000 ...

The United Nations observed the Second UN Global Safety Week from May 6-12, 2013. The Safety Week was focussed on the urgent need to protect pedestrians worldwide in a better manner and contribute to achieving the goal of the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020 ? saving five million lives. Dr. Etienne Krug, Director, Department of Violence and Injury ...