Streets in our cities are built and maintained with a myopic view centered around ensuring a smooth carriageway for motorized vehicles, even though most people in Indian cities walk, cycle, or use public transport. Effective street design needs a holistic approach to address the needs of all road users. There is a need to rethink street design as a multi-disciplinary ...
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“There should be a central agency supervising ITS projects with the highest level of transparency”
Dhaval Desai, Managing Director, Trafitek Solutions Pvt Ltd talks about the role and prospects of Urban ITS in the country. What are the different aspects of inter-urban ITS? There are two categories of ITS – Urban ITS and Inter-Urban ITS. Urban ITS is basically ITS deployed for urban areas like major cities and towns while Inter Urban ITS which is ...
Traffex 2013
Traffex 2013 – the 26th international traffic engineering, road safety, parking and highway maintenance exhibition will take place in Birmingham, UK from April 16 – 18. The Exhibition will be co-located with Parkex, Europe’s largest dedicated parking exhibition. The combined Traffex and Parkex Exhibition will provide visitors with the unique opportunity to see over 500 exhibitors from the world of ...
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 ...