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Enhancing Road Safety Panamax Retro Reflective Vehicle Marking Tape – With Pentacle Advantage

Panamax Retro Reflective Vehicle Marking Tape — With Pentacle Advantage has been engineered to address one of the most common causes of road accidents — poor visibility. Whether on highways, city streets, or industrial zones, this high-intensity tape ensures vehicles and objects remain clearly visible even in low light or harsh weather. Features & Benefits Panamax retro reflective tape comes ...

Pay Heed to Speed Samruddhi Mahamarg

Ever since the 701 km Mumbai-Nagpur Expressway or Samruddhi Mahamarg was inaugurated and completed with a total of 1699 structures including flyovers, viaducts, major and minor bridges, tunnels and interchanges, it has been in the news for increased number of road accidents. The silver lining in this otherwise dark cloud is that the number of accidents and deaths have marginally ...

Traffic Calming Solutions for Safer Roads

Founded over two decades ago to offer cost-effective safety solutions aimed at preventing local road accidents, New York-based Traffic Logix focuses on delivering innovative Intelligent Transportation Systems solutions globally. According to James Weatherall, CRO from Traffic Logix, the company is committed to continuous innovation in road safety. Smart solutions at the Trafficinfratech Expo Traffic Logix is showcasing a range of ...

Turning the tide on ‘Golden Hour’ Care

Time management is the key to reduce mortality in trauma patients. As per the annual report on ‘Road Accidents in India-2022’ published by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, a total of 461,312 road accidents have been reported by the States and Union Territories during the calendar year 2022, which claimed 168,491 lives and caused injuries to 443,366 persons. ...

Road fatalities down in Nashik

Speed calming measures taken by the Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) have helped in reducing the number of road fatalities by 22% in the civic limits during the first eight months of the year as compared to the corresponding period last year, based on police records. The total number of accidents also declined from 338 last year to 325 this year. ...

10-year road safety plan

Rajasthan is to become the first State in the country to adopt an action plan for road safety for the next 10 years. Accompanied by a government policy, it will be aimed at reducing road accidents in the State by 50% by 2030. The policy is expected to generate awareness among the public about road safety provisions and bring about ...

National Highway projects

In an initiative to enhance seamless connectivity between Tamil Nadu and Kerala, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari inaugurated and laid the foundation stone of 12 National Highway projects with a total length of 105 km in Kasargod recently. This initiative holds the promise of reducing overall transportation costs and eliminating black spots on National Highways leading ...

The spate of recent road accidents involving two wheelers and four wheelers leads mostly to bad road conditions, lack of proper signage, traffic rule violations and over speeding.

How do we balance addressing these and also implement safety technologies? Did you know that India recorded 4,12,432 road accidents in 2021? Whereas the number of accidents recorded in 2020 was 3,66,138, indicating a 12.65% increase in road accidents in 2021. The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways reported that about 67% of accidental deaths in 2021 were of the ...

We want to modernize 150 depots across Maharashtra

Anil Parab, Transport Minister, Government of Maharashtra speaks about his priorities, importance of technology in road safety and plans to rejuvenate the State Transport Corporation in an exclusive interview with Rahul Kamat As the newly appointed Transport Minister of Maharashtra, what are your priorities which you would like to take upon a warfooting note? At present, my priorities and focus ...

India’s New Motor Vehicle Act brings down road accidents

According to the government data, there has been a significant dip in the number of accidents after the implementation of New Motor Vehicle Act, 2019. The information was shared by the Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari in the ongoing Parliament session. According to the minister, in the last five months, Gujarat has registered a 14% dip in ...