Following the first successful Indo-German bootcamp held in July 2016 in Berlin, the second Indo-German bootcamp on ‘Transport and Mobility’ took place on 28 March. It brought together entrepreneurs from India and Germany to explore cooperation and grow their social impact. 10 teams were shortlisted to undergo an intense ten-day training. The Indian startups who participated in the demo day ...

The government is exploring a plan to reserve one lane in each national highway for the exclusive use of electric trucks. These trucks won’t be battery operated but powered by electricity from overhead cables on a dedicated lane. To start with, the MoRTH is planning a pilot project for running 50-tonne electric trucks between Delhi and Mumbai, aimed at halving the ...

Traffic Guiding Sign from Dianming Shenzhen Tech Co Ltd is used in a wide area or for local traffic flow guidance. It displays graphics of overall roadmap by insetting changeable LED light band in the static road marking area to identify vividly the real-time traffic status: smooth (green), congestion (red) or slow (yellow). Then, the driver is able to estimate ...

The Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 is the principal Act for regulating all the activities related to Motor Vehicles in the country. It has been amended four times i.e. in the year 1994,2000, 2001 and 2015 to adapt it to the technological upgradation emerging in road transport, passenger, freight movement and in motor vehicle management. Many provisions of the Act either have ...

Routing and scheduling in public transportation is a well-studied problem, and very relevant today in the face of rampant traffic congestion in most big cities across the globe. The routes and schedules need to be planned by transit agencies so as to successfully cater to the public demand, maintaining the revenue earned and operational cost incurred. The traditional schedules are ...

Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) is set to sublet parking facilities on PPP mode  to ensure better and safer parking zones. Around 60 locations across the city would be sublet under the smart city parking. State-of-the-art sensors, parking meters, dash boards and CCTV surveillance cameras will be used at these locations.  Assessment of parking based on short and long term needs is ...

Land earmarked for parking facilities at each of the 21 Metro stations along the 29.7-km Noida-Greater Noida Metro corridor will soon be handed over by the Noida Authority to the Noida Metro Rail Corporation (NMRC). It was also decided that the parking facilities will now be developed by NMRC. Earlier, the Noida and Greater Noida Authorities were to develop the parking spaces besides integrating ...

New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) has proposed to appoint a concessionaire for a period of five-seven years for managing and upgrading all parking lots in its areas with sensors and installation of cameras on public-private partnership (PPP) basis. A concessionaire may be selected through open competition bidding within four months. Thereafter, successful bidder may take another six months’ time to ...

A government-sponsored ‘smart parking’ system that helps drivers find parking slots using a smartphone app, is in the offing across Bengaluru. As part of the Smart City proposal, the state government is ready with a presentation on smart parking solutions to make parking in the city systematic under the public-private partnership model. Under the proposal, it is planned to convert ...

In order to deal with the problem of wrong and haphazard parking in Mohali city, the district police has come up with a mobile application. The police launched this app — ParkSafe — that can be downloaded free of charge on iOs and Android phones. The app will help users connect with the vehicle owner who has wrongly parked his ...