The construction of the twin tunnels extending from the mountains near BARC (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre) to Gautam Nagar near Panjarpole, is expected to be completed by the end of the year by the MMRDA. The 500km long tunnels are the first ones in India to be built in a city for urban transport purposes. They are a part of ...

In a measure that will save 5,71,261 units of electricity every year, the Chennai Municipal Corporation will replace 2,796 street lights with solar powered LED lamps in the slum areas of nine of its zones. Estimated to cost र6.63 crore, the new 70-watt sodium vapour lamps will cut down the corporation’s annual energy bill by र30 lakh. The project is ...

US based Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) recently awarded its highest safety award – Top Safety Pick to the new Lexus 2011 hybrid CT 200h. IIHS, an independent not-for-profit research and communication body, awards the Top Pick award to vehicles that are fitted with electronic stability control and achieve a rating of ‘good’ in their tests for front, side, ...

IRD Inc.(International Road Dynamics, Canada) has appointed a new Managing Director, Pramod Radhakrishnan for IRD South Asia Pvt. Ltd (IRDSA). Radhakrishnan brings over 20 years of executive and international business experience to the team in India. He has been instrumental in establishing, managing and restructuring operations of several international corporations in India over the last several decades. IRDSA deals in ...

The Central Railway has installed on a trial basis a new electronic chip in two of its retrofitted trains. The chip is fixed in the motor cabs of the trains – the cabs that contain the electrical equipment in an Electric Multiple Unit (EMU). The signals sent by the chip will help railway engineers, sitting in the control room, to ...

Pune based Electrotherm Group has introduced a new service called Switch for renting out YoByke bikes running on batteries. The YoByke bikes will be available through E T Elec-Trans Ltd, a subsidiary of Electrotherm India, which introduced the bikes in India in 2006. Increased use of such bikes would result in a substantial reduction in traffic congestion and CO2 emissions, ...

The Konkan Railway Corporation (KRCL) Ltd will test an updated version of its patented Anti Collision Devices (ACDs) by September this year. The tests and evaluation will be carried out by an independent agency, the Electronics Test and Development Centre, at Chennai. The ACD devices that can be mounted on rail locomotives and can also be deployed along the tracks, ...

The NHAI will shortly float tenders to build the Delhi-Meerut expressway. The 64km-long expressway is expected to reduce travel time from Delhi to Meerut from two-and-a-half hours to 45 minutes. The first 8km of the expressway from Nizamuddin Bridge to Ghaziabad border will have 16 lanes. NHAI has already commenced the land acquisition process for the project, which is scheduled ...

Constructed on a single pier system and covering seven vehicular and two pedestrian signals, the Lalbaug flyover has come as a relief to Mumbai’s commuters. In order to provide maximum space to commuters, it will be kept free of public utilities at the grade level too. Vidyottama Sharma reports.

Establishing the Road Safety Council, reconditioning of old buses for connectivity in rural areas and opening of two driving institutes for providing good drivers are some of the measures that Brij Kishore Sharma, Transport Minister of Rajasthan has initiated to improve the transport situation in the state. He tells TrafficInfraTech that these efforts are not enough. He plans to do ...