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The Haryana government has approved a plan by Japanese auto giant Suzuki Motorcycle to set up a second manufacturing plant in the state. The new plant would be based on an area of over 50 acres and would manufacture about 20 lakh motorcycles per year. The company is set to invest about र2000 crore for the purpose. The first phase ...

The Panvel flyover that is expected to solve the problems of traffic jams, road rages and inconvenience of Panvel residents is expected to be ready by June 2012. The flyover will also ease commuters’ journey to Pune by the old Mumbai-Pune road which passes through Panvel. The 17-metre wide flyover will offer two lanes each for up and down traffic. ...

Challenges in public bus operations The highlight of the second day of TrafficInfraTech Expo 2012, being held at Bombay Exhibition Centre, Goregoan, Mumbai, from May 17-19, 2012, was a seminar on “Challenges in making the operations of State Road Transport Undertakings efficient: Policy, Management & Technologies”. Chairing the seminar was O P Gupta, General Manager, Brihan Mumbai Electric Supply & ...

Challenges facing ITS “Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) applications are supposed to reduce congestion and help in inter-modal integration across concerned agencies & institutions. But despite all the technology available, the traffic industry is not experiencing the advantages of ITS. The problem is there are no common guidelines for ITS in the country and no national ITS architecture. These need to ...

Seminar on Traffic Management and Safety during Highway Construction A seminar on Traffic Management and Safety during Highway Construction saw a galaxy of luminaries as panelists and delegates. The seminar was inaugurated by Dr Sudhir Krishna, Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India. Krishna said that traffic management is crucial for planned urbanisation which is a pressing need of ...

TrafficInfraTech Expo 2012 got off to a brilliant start on May 17 at Bombay Exhibition Centre, NSE Complex, Goregaon. It was inaugurated by Dr Sudhir Krishna, Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India. This is the second edition of TrafficInfraTech Expo in which 75 exhibitors from all over India and many countries are participating. The first Expo was held ...

Bangaloreans are all set to get automated car parking with the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) coming up with a plan to install thirteen Automated Verticular Car Parking Towers throughout the city. The BBMP has chosen Hyderabad-based Bhrigu Realty and Telco Automotive Limited (TAL) for executing the project. The automated towers will be built under public-private-partnership (PPP). Each parking tower ...

The Indian Railways has established a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) to modernise the railway stations in the country, and to maximise their potential as revenue generators. Two subsidiaries of the Railways, Ircon International Limited and Rail Land Development Authority, recently signed an MoU to form the SPV called Railway Stations Development Corporation. The corporation will explore using Railways’ land and ...

The Indian Railways is looking at technical collaboration with Japan to implement its project to reduce travel time on the Mumbai-Delhi route by half. The project which requires train speeds of the order of 200kmph, is currently undergoing a pre-feasibility study by Japan which is expected to submit a report shortly. Since the existing electric locomotives with the Railways are ...

SITA (Société Internationale de Télécommunications Aéronautiques) Labs, in collaboration with Orange Business Services, has developed a new check-in concept, ‘tap and board’, that promises to make journeys through airports smoother through the use of a Near Field Communication (NFC) chip. The technology will allow passengers with Smartphones having NFC chips inside them to just ‘tap and board’ or ‘tap and ...