Roads in India:? Today & Tomorrow Biren Parekh, Partner, Ernst and Young India Pvt Ltd, takes a detailed look at the tolling system in India vis-?-vis road infrastructure, trends and framework. He also compares the Indian situation with a few initiatives taken in a few countries. From Adam Smith to the late Herb Mohring, economists have waxed lyrical about congestion ...

Adopting state-of-the-art techniques just for personal vanity or CV building is likely to backfire in developing economies like India. India has quite different baseline conditions from western cities, more than simple quantitative differences in income levels and a different vehicle mix. Such differences must be borne in mind when determining ways to analyse the transport patterns for new transport infrastructure and policies, writes Richard Di Bona.

Wessx Water, a water supply and sewerage utility company in Somerset, UK has launched a modified Volkswagen Beetle car, christened Bio-Bug, to run on methane gas produced from human waste. The gas is produced using the process of anaerobic digestion in which bugs break down bio-degradable material (in this case human waste) in the absence of oxygen to produce the ...

Iqbal Singh Jagdeva, Managing Director, Turbo Consultancy Services Pvt Ltd talks about the importance of security and surveillance products for the transportation industry What, according to you, is the importance of security and surveillance products for the transportation sector? Security and surveillance products are as important for the transportation sector as they are, for example, for offices, industries and homes. ...

Tata Motors is working with French auto major Dassault to produce an electric car, eMO that would cost around ?10 lakh. The eMO concept was developed by the company?s Vehicle Programs & Development (VPD) Group which operates from four centres ? Pune, Detroit in the US, Coventry in the UK and Stuttgart in Germany, by using a multidimensional approach to ...

Jagdeep Desai, Architect and Secretary & Founder Trustee, Forum for Improving Quality of Life in Mumbai, feels our laws are not inadequate but often, the enforcement agencies are inefficient. Here, he gives multi-pronged precautionary and remedial measures for road safety. Planning, administrative and enforcement authorities seem to make solutions as visible as possible to the public in order to show ...

A spectacular Infinity Loop Bridge will be gateway to China’s new commercial hub – Shizimen Central Business District in Zhuhai. 10 Design and Buro Happold overcame many a challenge to come up with a winning design that got them the contract for the bridge. Vidyottama Sharma brings you the details.

Larsen & Toubro, the concessionaire for the elevated Hyderabad Metro Rail project, has awarded South Korean company Hyundai Rotem the contract to supply engines and train sets for the metro rail. Hyundai Rotem will supply the rolling stocks nine months before each stage of the project is commissioned. Besides this, the tenders received for the supply of signalling and train ...

eToll System from Techsture Technologies is an Electronic Toll Collection System. eToll comprises a Lane System and a Plaza System integrated in an architecture that facilitates easy and accurate toll collection. eToll is engineered to meet difficult toll collection situations on Indian roads. It effectively stops revenue leakage, counteracts mischievous behaviors and has a high uptime performance of 99%. It ...

The Traffic Telematics Onboard Unit (QCG 21N) from EFKON India Pvt Ltd is a rugged and robust product that is well suited to the Indian trucking industry. The OBU is compact, tamperproof and without any external visible wiring. Fitted with internal GPS and GSM antennae, it provides accurate and cost-effective GPS location tracking of vehicles. Depending upon the subscription chosen ...