The proposed discipline zone for Western Express Highway offers a possibility to examine how much improvement we can achieve in congestion mitigation and traffic calming with better discipline, governance and management of road use. Ashok Datar, Chairman, Mumbai Environmental Social Network, gives an account.
Several manufacturers have announced that they are working on self-driving cars to be introduced in the near future; what are the implications and how soon will they be on our roads? Dr. Luis Willumsen, Director of Luis Willumsen Consultancy and Visiting Professor University College London, looks at the future of self driving autonomous vehicles and how they will impact transport planning, traffic congestion and road accidents in the coming years.
Thailand?s Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) has introduced a new Intelligent Transportation System (ITS). As a part of the project, titled Smart Thailand, all cars in Thailand will have sensors installed in them. The sensors transmit real-time location of the cars to a central Control Centre where it is combined with data received from the CCTV network. This combined ...
Newcastle University in the UK, along with the Newcastle City Council, have developed a new technology to reduce traffic congestion. The new satellite navigation technology which will be tested in the city will enable motorists to adjust the speed of their vehicles in order to pass through a series of traffic lights on green. The project which is designed to ...
The government of Punjab and the Union Territory administration of Chandigarh are planning to construct ring roads in the city. The project, if approved and implemented, will see a significant reduction in traffic congestion in the city, especially on some of its arterial roads such as Madhya Marg and Dakshin Marg. The city?s Master Plan has proposed a ring road ...
Adopting state-of-the-art techniques just for personal vanity or CV building is likely to backfire in developing economies like India. India has quite different baseline conditions from western cities, more than simple quantitative differences in income levels and a different vehicle mix. Such differences must be borne in mind when determining ways to analyse the transport patterns for new transport infrastructure and policies, writes Richard Di Bona.
By the end of the year about 160 roads in Delhi are set to get emergency disaster management lanes. To be painted in blue, the lane will be on the extreme right of the roads and will be 3.5m wide. Normally the lane will be open for vehicular traffic, but in case of an emergency or disaster, which will be ...
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