traQmatiX, a brand owned by MSD Telematics catering to a variety of industries including public transit operators, logistics providers, banking, construction, utility, police departments, service and other sector provides a secure, cellular based, GPS for AVL application. It is also an expert in vehicle recovery. Shefali Sinha, Account Manager – Business Developement and Sales, traQmatiX (M.S.D Telematics Pvt Ltd) speaks ...

The growing amount of vehicular traffic to the airport premises made Mumbai International Airport to entrust complete security of its multi-level car parking to KritiKal SecureScan Pvt Ltd. Kapil Bardeja, Co-Founder & CEO, of its company speaks about the automated under vehicle scanning system or UVSS. UVSS, integrated with other security and parking systems, gives a complete, automated and real ...

A century of car-centric urban development has left our cities polluted, congested, and searching for sustainable solutions. Transport Demand Management (TDM) strategies can provide these solutions by combining public policy and private sector innovation to reverse over-reliance on private cars. The Moving Beyond Cars series – exclusive to TheCityFix and WRI Insights – offers a global tour of TDM solutions ...

In a major initiative to take stock of the condition of highways including their maintenance and schedule for overlaying, the government will carry out a road assessment exercise through a new modified vehicle. To start with about 3,000km of highways spread across states including Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu will be covered by a vehicle equipped ...

Statistics state that in India, annually over six lakhs accidents lead to about two lakh deaths. This colossal loss calls for concerted and multidisciplinary preventive and remedial efforts. In the recently held Economic Times Road Safety Summit 2015 in Mumbai, the focus of the various panel discussions were on topics such as: Innovation for Safe Engineering & Safe Infrastructure; Unleashing ...

The Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu recently inaugurated the Integrated Security System (ISS) installed with a total cost Rs 21.72Cr at six railway stations in Mumbai. The system will monitor passenger activities through a network of CCTV cameras at CST, Dadar, Kurla, LTT, Kalyan and Thane.He also inaugurated a modified foot over bridge (FOB) to facilitate passenger movement at Diva, new ...

Ashok Leyland has supplied of 633 vehicles and spare parts to the Ministry of Tourism and Hospitality Industry, Government of Zimbabwe. Under the contract, Ashok Leyland will also provide training to the buyer’s technical staff in operation and maintenance of the products. The vehicles will be utilized by the Ministry for promotion of domestic tourism, supporting international tourism, disaster management, ...

In a unique project, the Vadodara Municipal Corporation will construct a dome on a Akota-Dandia Bazaar flyover, with solar panels on its roof that can generate power and light up street lamps. The city civic body will construct the dome with sit-outs and railings on a stretch of the flyover which will have solar panels on its roofs. According to ...

Mumbai will get its first double-decker bridge on P D’Mello Road at CST that will have railway tracks and a motorway. The tracks will be constructed at an elevated level and cars will ply above that as the Eastern Freeway will be extended up from Orange Gate to GPO junction.The railway tracks will be at an elevated level because it ...

The Madras High Court has made wearing helmets by two-wheel riders compulsory. Justice N Kirubakaran passed the order after taking note of statistics provided by the Home Secretary that 6,419 people lost their lives in Tamil Nadu in 2014 alone as they failed to wear helmets while riding two-wheelers. The court suggested stringent measures, including impounding vehicles, till the violators ...