Car maker Nissan is testing a new type of paint called Ultra-Ever Dry on the European version of its model Note. The paint which is super-hydrophobic and oleophobic repels water and oil by maintaining a layer of air between the paint and water, mud or grimy road spray. The paint has responded well to common use cases including rain, spray, ...

The Road Ministry will have the Electronic Toll Collection system implemented on all toll plazas on the national highways in at least one lane by the end of the fiscal. The Ministry plans to implement electronic toll collection across the national highways and the National Highways Authority of India has formed Indian Highways Management Company Ltd to implement electronic toll ...

The Central Government has decided to induct into the Railway Board E Sreedharan, former Managing Director, Delhi Metro and Principal Advisor, Kochi Metro Rail & Chief Advisor, proposed Lucknow Metro. Sreedharan will assist the Railways in its quest to become accident-free and increase the speed of trains.

The Bangalore traffic police has organised a contest, “Unsung Heroes at the Traffic Signals” in which commuters and travellers can nominate a traffic constable or head constable for commendable service. It hopes to motivate and award public recognition of deserving police officers, whose work often goes unnoticed, through the contest. The event will jointly be conducted by the World Peacekeepers ...

Delhi Traffic Police has provided auditory devices for the safety of visually impaired persons at 57 traffic signals in the city. An additional 35 locations have been identified for providing such devices. Besides, at locations on roads where there is continuous flow of traffic, 22 pelican traffic signals and 36 pedestrian traffic signals are functional which have the facility to ...

The West Bengal state government will soon install intelligent transport systems on its recently rolled out air-conditioned buses. The public sector undertaking Urban Mass Transit Company Limited will prepare a detailed project report. The project will give a facelift to the city’s mass transportation system and commuters will be able to exactly locate the buses on their mobile phones with ...

R P Singh, Chairman, NHAI, takes a look at toll collection in India and the challenges facing Electronic Toll Collection in his presentation at the conference, “PSKLM International Expressway Conference & Exhibition” held recently in Malaysia. There are 13,900km of completed highways projects under tolling in India, out of which 7201km are under private tolling (BOT toll projects) while 6703km ...

India’s first inter-operable, Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) system based on radio frequency identification (RFID) technology was launched about a year ago on certain toll plazas on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad National Highway. How has the move impacted the transportation and traffic industry in the country? What are the challenges the country faces for a large scale implementation of the system? TrafficInfraTech spoke ...

Toll plazas are one of the most neglected forms of contemporary architecture even though millions of people use it every day; some to cross territories and others for employment. When the Vadodara Bharuch toll plaza was to be built on NH 8 in Gujarat, the client wanted to create a new bench mark in the toll plaza industry. This led ...

Sandeep Pawar, Managing Director, Mumbai based Kent ITS talks to TraficInfraTech about toll automation, ETC and the company’s ETC solutions. What are the unique features of Toll Explore – the toll automation solution from Kent ITS? What technology does the system use? Toll Explore is very flexible because most of the components of the system is designed and manufactured in-house. ...