Tag: Metro rail
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Charting a Course for India’s Sustainable Transport Transition: Insights from the Transport Transition Pathway Explorer (TTPE)
India, a nation poised for rapid economic and demographic growth, faces an urgent challenge: decarbonizing its transportation sector while ensuring equitable access and affordability. With rising private car ownership and a transport system dominated by roadways, a transformative shift is essential. This article explores insights from the Transport Transition Pathway Explorer (TTPE), a cutting-edge tool…
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Metro Challenges in India
World Resources Institute looks at the challenges that metro systems need to address to ensure a complete integration with the city. When compared to new cities where the metro projects integration is factored in, retrofitted projects need to adapt to different travel patterns of the city, with existing rail systems where the city transport system…
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Making Metro Sustainable
[box type=”shadow” ] Over the period of time, Metro projects in India have developed a better integrated intermodal system that offers the possibility of simultaneously reducing costs, increasing operator revenues and most importantly, passenger comfort [/box] With a modest beginning of 8 km in 2002, Metro rail has shown phenomenal growth in India. In the financial…
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Smart Technology: Securing Cities’ Transportation
The Indian security and surveillance market is moving from security in closed spaces to security of public places, led by spending from both the government and the private sector. That said, the smart and intelligent security solutions backed by Artificial Intelligence (AI), Deep Learning, Advanced VCA, Machine Leanings, Internet of things (IoT) and big data…
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Metro Rail – An Unmatched Real Estate Catalyst
While Metro rail implementation has a huge impact on real estate prices along its corridor and the influence zone, in the larger context it improves the standard of living of a large segment of urban population. A. Shankar, National Director & Head – Urban Solutions (Strategic Consulting), JLL India says it is also a catalyst…
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“We are not building a metro:We are redefining Hyderabad”
As is known, Hyderabd Metro once completed will be one of the best mass rapid transport projects in the world, especially built on the PPP model. There are two hundred mass transit systems in the world and out of these, less than half a dozen are built on this model. Mostly, these are government funded…
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Energy Cost in Metro Rail–Is it getting its due?
The energy consumed by trains is often neglected while arriving at cost of a mass transit project. The authors outline factors to be considered while arriving at estimates of energy consumption by rolling stock and during evaluation of bids for transit projects. Energy consumption by trains is a growing concern for operators and infrastructure administrators.…
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Metro Rail System Need for Standardisation
An increasing number of cities in India have opted for metro rail as the choice of mass rapid transit system. The author takes a look at the issues faced by vendors supplying systems for the metro rail in India as well as innovation and trends in metro rail and mainline rail systems. Urbanisation in India…
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ITS Making Metros Smarter
Metro Rail has emerged as a viable option to increase the share of public transport among the different modes of transport used in India. With a maximum speed of 80kmph, it is a quick, clean, reliable, safe and energy-efficient means of mass transit, providing commuters with comfort and convenience. With proper design, metro rail systems…
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Serco Operations and Maintenance of Metro Rail
The rapidly growing metro market in India has brought in focus the various aspects of a typical metro rail project, one of the most significant areas being Operations & Maintenance (O&M). It is interesting that the metro rail market realises the importance of this critical infrastructure and is actively pursuing budgets for O&M for asset…