The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has allocated ?529 crore for road repairs in South Mumbai. This is the largest set of road maintenance contracts given out by the BMC in a single region and is about 50% of the amount the corporation spent on road repairs last year in the entire city. About 129 roads will be re-laid out of ...

The Delhi government has decided to install fully automatic signals on the Delhi BRTS. The intelligent signalling system (ISS) which was functional till now only during non-peak hours will now be implemented across all 17 junctions. Before going in for the automatic signalling system, the Delhi Integrated Multimodal Transit System (DIMTS), which is the corridor manager for the Delhi BRTS, ...

The Serco Group has been awarded a contract for the operation and maintenance of the Indore BRTS. The contract has been awarded by the Atal Indore City Transport Services Ltd. (AICTSL), a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) set up to manage the BRTS, and owned by the Indore Development Authority and Indore Municipal Corporation. Serco will operate a fleet of 50 ...

Tata Realty and Infrastructure (TRIL) is in the process of acquiring three completed toll projects. Faced by problems such as delays in land acquisition for long-term road infrastructure projects, investors have been reluctant to invest in such projects, forcing several road infrastructure majors such as Reliance Infrastructure, GMR Infrastructure and Madhucon Projects to sell their stakes in road projects. Many ...

GMR Infrastructure plans to sell a major portion of its holdings in three toll projects in its efforts to reduce its debt, The company has an investment of around ?1800 crore in toll roads ? three toll roads and three annuity roads under operation spanning around 421 km. Another 309km of annuity-based toll roads are under construction. Further, there are ...

Commuting time between Mumbai and Delhi by rail is expected to reduce substantially with the Railways? plan to run semi-high speed trains at 200kmph between the two cities. A study identifying the need to strengthen the infrastructure for this service is nearing completion and work is expected to begin shortly. The study is in the process of identifying bridges that ...

The Union Cabinet has approved the Railways? plan to attract investment from the private sector for constructing new tracks and plants and to increase passenger and freight carrying capacity. The investment will be used for connecting ports, mines and industrial plants with the rail network. The move is likely to reduce transportation costs and help reach raw materials quicker to ...

Trains in India are all set to get airplane style vacuum toilets. These toilets are the second phase of improving cleanliness on trains after the introduction of bio ? toilets earlier this year. The Railways have identified 55 cities where toilet systems in trains are in particularly bad condition and where the introduction of vacuum toilets will be carried out ...

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is planning to conduct its first ever audit of roads with potholes which had been repaired by contractors, checking on materials used by contractors and the quality of the repairs. The audit will be carried out in conjunction with Swiss based firm GSS Consultants, with the project expected to cost ? 5 lakh. During the ...

Finnish telecommunications major Nokia has released Here, a new mapping and navigation application, for Apple iOS devices. It is available for free on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Here has location and navigation data from around 200 countries. It is based on HTML5 and offers voice-guided step-by-step walk navigation and public transport directions through pedestrian routes and parks. Users also ...