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Dubai to get more speed radars

Dubai will get 100 more speed radar systems to strengthen enforcement against speeding on the emirate?s roads. The new cameras will also be installed at major traffic intersections to enable detection of motorists jumping red lights and speeding up to catch the green lights. Dubai currently has about 450 speed radars and 230 cameras installed at different points. The Road ...

Ten years of London?s congestion charge scheme

London?s traffic congestion charge scheme, the biggest in the world, has completed ten years with a good success record. Traffic jams have been reduced and public transport has speeded up. Congestion has decreased by about 20% while the number of traffic jams has reduced by about 30%. The number of vehicles driven on the city roads has also decreased by ...

Mumbai airport to use SITA technology

The Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport at Mumbai will use AirportConnect Open, the common-use passenger system from SITA (Soci?t? Internationale de T?l?communications A?ronautiques). Under the terms of a ten-year agreement signed between Mumbai International Airport (MIAL) and SITA, the system will provide passenger handling, baggage reconciliation and security solutions. SITA will also install the Airport iValidate system at the airport to ...

Double-decker Bangalore-Chennai train

The Railways will shortly introduce a new double-decker train service between Bangalore and Chennai. A trial run of the train was conducted recently and services are expected to begin in March. The train has a maximum speed of 160kmph with a section speed of 105-110kmph. It is fitted with a chassis provided by the German firm Lukwe Holfmann Busch (LHB). ...

New high speed accident relief trains

The Railways is in the process of importing a number of high speed accident relief trains to expedite rescue and restoration work after accidents. The trains will be high-speed, diesel powered self-propelled trains with a maximum speed of 160kmph. At present the railways have 27 self propelled accident relief trains with a maximum speed of 110kmph. Each diesel powered train ...

New ITS project in Thailand

Thailand?s Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) has introduced a new Intelligent Transportation System (ITS). As a part of the project, titled Smart Thailand, all cars in Thailand will have sensors installed in them. The sensors transmit real-time location of the cars to a central Control Centre where it is combined with data received from the CCTV network. This combined ...

Wireless EV charging technology

Momentum Dynamics, a US based electronics company, has developed a technology to charge electric vehicles wirelessly through snow, ice and water without the use of any cables or wires. Tests conducted have shown the technology, which works on the principle of inductive charging, to work in all weather conditions. The vehicles are charged without any need of supervision. The system ...

Mumbai Monorail successfully tested

The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) successfully carried out a test run of Mumbai Monorail, India?s first mono rail. About 100 journalists travelled in a glittering four-coach modern pink train that looked more like a toy train than the 12 coach trains Mumbaikars are used to. The test run covered seven stations from Wadala to Chembur in an 8.80km ...

Steria organises roundtable on transportation needs in India

Steria (India) Ltd, the Indian arm of Paris headquartered IT Solutions and Services company, Steria, organised a roundtable conference in Mumbai on ?Modern Approach to 21st Century Transport Challenges?. The aim was to attain a thought leadership position on Steria?s point of view on achieving operational efficiency with optimised transport systems amongst policymakers at all levels in the Indian transport ...

KritiKal Solutions launches Video Signal Processing Kit

KritiKal Solutions Pvt Ltd has launched a Video Signal Processing Unit 150T? 01. The video signal-processing unit is a low-cost system which provides an end-to-end platform for EO/IR sensor data acquisition, pre-processing, compression & streaming of video data. The indigenously designed generic platform around Xilinx Spartan 6 device enables real-time data acquisition from multiple sensors and cameras. It is a ...