The Uttar Pradesh transport department is planning to rope in India Post to offer online licence-related services to applicants at post offices to facilitate easy processing and prevent fleecing by middlemen. A proposal has been sent to the state government for opening separate counters at post offices to offer all online licence-related services. Services that are being done online will ...

Delhi-based Alinz Portable Petrol Pump Pvt Ltd, which has Czech Republic as its technology partner, is planning to introduce portable fuel pumps in the country. The petrol pumps can help cut the land and time needed to set up a filling station in the country and would be especially useful in land-scarce and difficult areas. The company plans to set ...

The Delhi government is planning to promote electric mobility in a big way in the city and as a part of that, it plans to induct electric-run buses for public transport from March 2019. The government has started working on providing the supporting infrastructure such as charging points for these buses. It will be constructing bus depots at six locations ...

Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) recently signed two agreements with the Government of India to provide Official Development Assistance (ODA) loan for the Mumbai- Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail (MAHSR) and the Kolkata East-West Metro Project. The objective of the project is to develop a highfrequency mass transportation system by constructing the High-Speed Rail between Mumbai and Ahmedabad, using Japan’s Shinkansen technology ...

After conducting an intense drive for ensuring that people follow traffic rules in Vadodara city, the police launched a Road Courtesy campaign. The cops want to educate citizens in basic driving discipline, especially during peak hours when busy roads are packed with vehicles. The objective is to train citizens on maintaining safe distance, especially from big vehicles to avoid accident ...

In order to develop and establish formal platform for cooperation in the Transport and Highways sector, a Memorandum-of -Understanding in the field of Road Transport and Road Industry has been jointly negotiated and finalized by India and Russia. Increased co-operation, exchange and collaboration with Russia will contribute to establish a long-term and effective bilateral relationship of communication and cooperation in ...

After the successful integration of ‘Vahan’ software developed by National Informatics Centre (NIC) on the Yamuna Expressway, the same will be tried out with highway traffic management system (HTMS) of Noida- Greater Noida expressway too. Officials can access complete information of the traffic violator within minutes and e-challans are issued to offenders. Traffic police are trying to link their newly ...

The Government will be taking a unified approach towards executing a urban mobility plan for India by bringing all the transport and infrastructure related ministries to come together and collaborate both at the Central and State levels. The group at the Centre will be headed by Road Transport & Highway Minister Nitin Gadkari and will facilitate faster clearance of projects. ...

The Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation has decided to install Fire Detection and Suppression System in all its premium luxury buses. The FDSS, popular in countries like Sweden and Israel, will be able to detect rise in temperature in the engine compartment, particularly in case of a fire or overheating. Currently, all premium KSRTC buses have fire extinguishers, but they ...

The Goa state transport department has initiated procedures to procure with technologically advanced traffic interceptors. These vehicles will be equipped with computerized fining with back-up of the offender’s violation history, wheel clamps for vehicles, among other things.