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Tag Archives: Road safety

Knowing socio-political profile of drivers is important before intervention: Dr CP Joshi

Conference on road safety gives recommendations to the Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Instead of talking in general about interventions needed in road accidents, it is imperative to know the nature of accident and the stage where you need intervention,” said Dr C P Joshi, Union Cabinet Minister for Road Transport and Highways at an international conference on ...

IRDSA awarded three contracts

IRDSA, a 100% owned subsidiary of IRD Inc. (International Road Dynamics, Canada) has been awarded three important road contracts in India. IRDSA is a market leader in ITS industry and is a preferred choice of concessionaires for its proven, innovative and evolved ITS systems. The first contract is for supplying toll systems for the Bandra-Worli Sea Link, one of the ...

Aluminium Studs

Ashu Enterprises makes a variety of road safety products including road studs. Alcolite Aluminium Stud AL-105 is made of alcolite and fitted with two-way acrylic prismatic reflectors. It is available in yellow, white and red colours. The aluminium stud exhibits retro-reflective properties under both wet and dry conditions. It is very durable, with high abrasion and impact resistance. The stud ...

Launch of ER One

One of the major highlights of the TrafficInfraTech Expo was ER One – a compact First Response Vehicle for Highways & Road Patrolling and Rescue. Every few minutes its PA siren would blare and engulf the Expo venue creating much excitement among the visitors and the exhibitors. Grand Lumos Technologies Pvt Ltd, New Delhi chose to launch this indigenous vehicle ...

Fatal road accidents increase in Malaysia

Malaysia saw an increase in the number of fatal road accidents in 2010. The number increased from 6745 deaths in 2009 to 6872 in 2010. Total road accidents also registered a jump from 397,330 in 2009 to 414,421 in 2010. To improve road safety and to try to decrease the number of road accidents, Malaysia recently launched the 21st Ops ...

Cricketers to promote road safety campaign in Delhi

Delhi’s Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Satyendra Garg has roped in the 1983 cricket World Cup heroes to spread awareness on road safety in Delhi. Kapil Dev, Bishen Singh Bedi, Kirti Azad and Maninder Singh will now stand at traffic intersections along with traffic policemen and encourage people to adopt safer practices while driving or walking on roads. They will ...

Seminars at the Expo They came, they discussed, they showed the way…

While exhibitors were busy handling the rush of visitors at their stalls, subjects of highway and urban traffic management and safety were being discussed in detail at seminars held side by side on the second and third days of TrafficInfraTech Expo. Experts discussed various related issues in depth and also took serious questions from the audience.

Vehicle Safety: It’s time for a revolution!

A revolution is taking place in Pedestrian Protection. While immense research is on in passive and active safety, it is important to accomplish new tests scenario where preventive safety systems are allowed to be kept in active crash tests