Shakti Datta, Country Manager(India) of Canadian company LED Roadway Lighting outlines some of the key considerations for designing, planning, and deploying LED smart street lighting in India. India is seeking to enhance its infrastructure through some major initiatives supported by the Prime Minister. One of these initiatives is to convert 32 million existing streetlights (high pressure sodium & low pressure ...
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Wire Rope Safety Barrier
Avantech Engineering Consortium Pvt Ltd introduces a wire rope/ cable safety barrier developed and manufactured by the US based Trinity Highway Products. CASSTM , a wire rope or cable safety barrier is a flexible type of longitudinal barrier that offers softer impact to a crashing vehicle and its occupants at the time of crash compared to crash with a metal ...
Panoramic Camera
Hikvision’s PanoVU series is an all-in-one solution which integrates multiple sensors into the one unit, eliminating the need for video stitching software. The series can capture panoramic images as well as close-up images to give consideration to both panorama and details. The panaromic images are captured by four or eight sensors, which could realize 1800 /3600 panorama monitoring. The design ...
Laser Scanner Solution
Jenoptik’s TrafficStar S350 features the latest Robot laser scanner technology for non-invasive distance measurement. The flexible robot technology simplifies the relocation of the entire measuring system between different locations. The system features accurate speed measurement across multiple traffic lanes and reliable vehicle class determination of approaching and/or departing traffic. Additionally, the system is capable of monitoring different speed limits, both ...
Speed Detection System for Surat
Vehant Technologies’ VehiScan – ANPR system and TrafficMon Speed Detection System along with the complete smart city project was launched in Surat with the aim of traffic management across the city. Over 130 people were nabbed by the cops within one month of installation of the system in the first phase. Most of these offenders were luxury car owners who ...
Akhilesh Yadav’s dream project – UP 100 launched with Barco Video wall
Barco, a global leader in networked control room visualization solutions, has delivered an advanced video wall solution that empowers Uttar Pradesh Police to reduce crimes and reach to incidents within few minutes. The solution comprising of 180 Barco rear-projection LED cubes in multiple configurations at Lucknow Centre will enable local responders across the State of Uttar Pradesh to offer aid ...
Paytm account for highway toll charges
Paytm accounts can now be used to pay toll charges too. National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and Paytm recently signed a partnership deal to this effect. The ministry’s existing radiofrequency tags will be utilized for the cashless transactions. Building on FASTag that the NHAI had introduced early this year, it began its cashless drive with the online payments platform. ...
NHAI can monetise projects
The Government of India recently allowed the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to monetize public-funded national highways projects, which are operational and generating toll revenues for at least two years after the commercial operations date, under a toll operate transfer model. This move opens up brownfield investments in the highway sector to institutional investors. However, the monetisation will be ...
TRAFFICINFRATECH EXPO/PARKING INFRATECH EXPO 2016 BIG, BETTER, BEST
The fifth edition of TrafficInfraTech Expo along with the second edition of ParkingInfra Tech 2016 in Mumbai best describes the term ‘Big, Better, Best’. In the last five years, this focused trade show that is tailor-made to meet the requirements of the traffic industry witnessed great business and networking. 3100 Visitors 120 Exhibitors Joint Ventures, Partnerships Three-Day Conference 20 Countries ...
Government to construct 1,000km expressway
Government will construct 1,000 km of expressways under its flagship road building programme NHDP at a cost of Rs 16,680Cr. The main criteria for selection of expressway corridors will be the traffic volume. The decision to give top priority to the highest density corridor, i.e., the Vadodara-Mumbai Corridor (400km) and considering it for the feasibility study was approved in the ...