Transport Civil Infrastructure can be an additional source of income for sustainability writes Dr K.N.Ingalagi, Chief Systems Manager, Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation. Sustainability is the buzzword in the sphere of government run organizations in general, and public transport corporations in particular. This can be achieved by developing robust transport civil infrastructure. It not only provides facelift to the public transport ...

The role of transportation in any society cannot be underestimated, more so in the developing world where it plays a critical role in human upliftment. The subject is cross-disciplinary and involves a complex interplay of various forces: land use, urbanization, demographic shifts, population growth, economic factors and ecology. Undertaking a study of this subject is a challenging task and Dr. ...

Ashok Datar of Mumbai Environmental Social Network & Mumbai Transport Forum writes about his experience of travelling by Delhi airport metro line and advocates the introduction of bus services to both the Delhi and Mumbai arirports. As I landed at the old and busy T2 in New Delhi from Mumbai on a December afternoon to attend a National Urban Mobility ...

India has reported the highest number of road accident fatalists in the world. As per the directive from the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, National Road Safety Week was observed all over India from January 11-17. The 25th Road safety week saw States/UTS/NGOs and other stakeholders/agencies involved in road safety undertake various activities aimed at promoting road safety. The ...

The eight kilometer stretch of the first phase of Hyderabad Metro Rail between Nagole and Mettuguda, work on which is currently going on full stream, is all set to be opened to commuters by March 2015. The project will be completed by the end of December 2014 and trial runs will be held until March 2015. Major infrastructure of 200 ...

Mumbai’s new integrated, state-of-the-art Terminal 2 at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) was inaugurated on January 10 by the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh in the presence of the Governor of Maharashtra, K. Shankarnarayanan, the Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Prithviraj Chavan and other dignitaries. Spread over an area of 4.4 million sqft, the new terminal features a highly compact design ...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has sanctioned $176 million funding for the Jaipur Metro to extend Line 1 of the first phase of the metro. As per the Jaipur Development Authority?s public transport plan, the Rajasthan government is constructing a 9.7km elevated metro train from Mansarovar in the western part of the city to Chandpole on the western edge of ...

The Scale Lane Bridge over the River Hull, the UK, opened recently, offers people the unique and memorable experience of riding on the bridge while it opens and closes. Its form and material give it a distinctive and tough character, appropriate to its context and Hull?s industrial and maritime heritage. The client?s brief was for a new pedestrian/cycle bridge that ...

The Union Cabinet has cleared a `1,400 crore project to track all public transport in 32 cities through a global positioning system (GPS) at the national and state level as part of initiatives under the ?Nirbhaya Fund.? The budget exceeds the `1,000 crore fund created in memory of the victim of the December 16 gang rape, but the project will ...

The Qatar Bahrain Causeway (QBC), also referred to as the Qatar Bahrain Friendship Bridge is a 40km-long causeway connecting Qatar and Bahrain in the Middle East. After completion ? expected to be shortly before the 2020 FIFA World Cup ? it will be the world?s longest fixed causeway. Connecting northern Qatar with the eastern coast of Bahrain, the link will ...