Jagdeep Desai, Architect and Secretary & Founder Trustee, Forum for Improving Quality of Life in Mumbai, feels our laws are not inadequate but often, the enforcement agencies are inefficient. Here, he gives multi-pronged precautionary and remedial measures for road safety. Planning, administrative and enforcement authorities seem to make solutions as visible as possible to the public in order to show ...

Larsen & Toubro, the concessionaire for the elevated Hyderabad Metro Rail project, has awarded South Korean company Hyundai Rotem the contract to supply engines and train sets for the metro rail. Hyundai Rotem will supply the rolling stocks nine months before each stage of the project is commissioned. Besides this, the tenders received for the supply of signalling and train ...

eToll System from Techsture Technologies is an Electronic Toll Collection System. eToll comprises a Lane System and a Plaza System integrated in an architecture that facilitates easy and accurate toll collection. eToll is engineered to meet difficult toll collection situations on Indian roads. It effectively stops revenue leakage, counteracts mischievous behaviors and has a high uptime performance of 99%. It ...

The Traffic Telematics Onboard Unit (QCG 21N) from EFKON India Pvt Ltd is a rugged and robust product that is well suited to the Indian trucking industry. The OBU is compact, tamperproof and without any external visible wiring. Fitted with internal GPS and GSM antennae, it provides accurate and cost-effective GPS location tracking of vehicles. Depending upon the subscription chosen ...

Paytm, a service provider for online mobile and DTH recharges, has introduced online recharge facility for users of the Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway toll plaza. These users can now recharge their smart tags through the Paytm portal. Paytm is also offering attractive deals and discounts on popular consumer brands with every recharge. About 100,000 smart tag users use the expressway and 60% ...

Anywhere Enforcement, which means enforcement at random locations, is a practice that is catching up in India. It uses the deployment of a latest technology package – the Interceptor. The Interceptor is a purpose-configured integrated system that comprises an appropriate vehicle platform, enforcement equipment, accessories, comforts and conveniences for enhancing the practice of Anywhere Enforcement.

US based Aviation Safety Technologies Inc has developed SafeLand, a technology that gives pilots accurate information about conditions on the runway, information that could be vital during landing in bad weather. SafeLand measures parameters such as speed, deceleration, temperature, pressure and wind which enable pilots to get reports such as runway surface characteristics, braking friction, brake and tyre wear and ...

Sernis Inc has developed a solar powered Intelligent Wrong Way Detector SK-WWD that enables real time detection of vehicles moving the wrong way on a highway. The Detector which uses a real-time image processing technology works with a range of pavements. It comprises a sensor type camera, which identifies vehicles in the wrong lane, and a dynamic sign. The dynamic ...

Kritikal Solution has introduced a PC based software – Image Enhancement and Change Detection Module (IECD) that offers a solution to the problem of providing day and night unmanned surveillance. IECD creates mosaics from a live video feed coming from a continuously panning camera and detects the changes across different frames of the same scene. It tracks the detected objects, ...

In a bid to check the rising number of accidents at railway level crossings in Kerala and other states, the Railways has come up with a plan to close down the unmanned level crossings in Kerala and set up about 80 Railway Over Bridges in two years. Most of the unmanned crossings do not have adequate and trained personnel to ...