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Wednesday , 27 March 2024

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Institutionalising gender equity to transform urban governance

There is increasing discussion around the importance of incorporating a gender lens in urban mobility, with limited attention to urban governance and planning frameworks. Currently, it is being undertaken through Gender Specialists and Gender Action Plans or Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Action Plan on a project or programme basis, often through bilateral and multilateral investments, writes Sonal Shah, Founder ...

The challenging job of weighing vehicles

Essae Digitronics Pvt Ltd., an ISO 9001:2015 and ISO TS 16949:2009 certified company, and has TPM Excellence Award -First and Only Weighing company in the World and comprises of two manufacturing facilities, one in Bangalore and the other at Sitarganj Uttarakhand. Within a span of almost three decades, the company has presence in 80 locations in PAN India with over ...

Identification of Road Crash Severity

Priyank Trivedi and Jiten Shah, Civil Engineering Department, Institute of Infrastructure Technology Research and Management [IITRAM], Ahmedabad, examine how crash severity can be ranked by integrating the Multi-Criteria Decision-Making approach The escalating number of motorized vehicles in India has resulted in a surge in road crash fatalities though in the past five years, there has been a decrease in the ...

What’s New in IRC: 67 – 2022

The Third Revision of Code of Practice for Road Signs was released by IRC in 2012. After almost a span of ten years IRC has issued its Fourth Revision which was published in June 2022. This essay by Ashwini Bagga – road safety expert and former consultant to the Department of Transport and Road Safety, Government of Rajasthan– is an ...

Chandigarh: On going fight against serious road accidents

National Crime Records Bureau Data shows that India had about 155, 622 deaths due to road accidents in 2022. With millions more sustaining severe injuries. In this first part of the series of accounts covering road safety initiatives by Indian Cities, Jaswinder Singh, Dy.SP/Traffic (R&D), Road Safety, UT, Chandigarh tells Trafficinfratech how the City has put in place systems and ...

Three Strategic Axes to Leh

With the opening of all three strategic passes and axes, BRO has successfully restored connectivity on all routes leading to Ladakh. Never in the history were these routes opened in such short time frame and the connectivity achieved in March this year, writes Col Prashant Oberoi, Director HSPR, HQ DGBR The UT of Ladakh enjoys the significance of being located ...

Path India Ltd Projects and more Projects

Prakash Asphalting & Toll highways (India) Ltd is the leading road construction company in Central India and a pioneer in executing engineering projects. Path India is constantly looking for innovations and challenging projects. In a brief Interview with Mangala Chandran, Director Nipun Agrawal gives an update on the company’s foray into more verticals like logistics parks and wayside amenities Path ...

GPS based Tolling Solution for India

In May 2021, the National Highways Authority of India issued guidelines to strictly ensure that no more than ten seconds are spent as service time per vehicle, even during peak hours at every toll plaza in India. Considering the vehicular density of the roads, it becomes crucial to save time while the occupants are on commute. In order to enhance ...

Taming Shinkun La

The UT of Ladakh enjoys the significance of being located at the ancient Silk Route which passes through these regions and played a very vital role in the development of culture, religion, philosophy, trade and commerce in the past. The presence of resources is what makes Ladakh strategically very important sitting over a conflict zone. Ladakh’s geostrategic significance has increased ...

The Leap towards Mobility as a Service

The idea of MaaS is well-established, a service which integrates multiple modes of transport while focusing on users’ preferences, enabling an end-to-end seamless journey from point A to point B and creating lucrative business opportunities for related players. However, bringing it to life seems a distant reality in India. It demands a leap of faith in public-private symbiosis, modern infrastructure ...