Soon after the formation of the new Government, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways could unveil an ambitious plan for building 50,000 km of new, access-controlled, expressways by 2037 with an aim to reduce logistic costs. This might replace the Bhartamala scheme in tune with the Vision 2047 for the road sector. Implementing GPS-based tolling on select stretches and ...
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Road Sector and Budget 2018
Infrastructure acts as the catalyst to economic growth and the current government has been addressing the bottlenecks that impede growth in the sector. We have observed the continued support from the government in terms of higher budgetary allocation towards infrastructure sector to revive the investment cycle. This year, we have witnessed all time high allocation; the rail and road sectors ...
SMEC wins India State Highway deal
The Australia based consulting firm SMEC has been awarded a contract for the construction, supervision and contract administration for the second stage of the Karnataka State Highway Improvement Project. There are nine separate civil work packages in the contract in which about 620km of highways will be upgraded. The upgrading work includes constructing new alignments for two-lane roads, widening other ...
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: The Need for Traffic Management and Engineering
“Road Safety is a multi-sectoral and multi-dimensional issue. It incorporates the development and management of road infrastructure, provision of safer vehicles, legislation and law enforcement, mobility planning, provision of health and hospital services, child safety, urban land use planning, etc. In other words, its ambit spans engineering aspects of both, roads and vehicles on one hand and the provision of ...