SMEC wins India State Highway deal
The Australia based consulting firm SMEC has been awarded a contract for the construction, supervision and contract administration for the second stage... Read More
Yamuna Expressway- Concrete corridor with integrated ITS Systems
Yamuna Expressway, in the State of Uttar Pradesh, is an ITS marvel. The 165kms long Expressway that was thrown open to the public on August 9 this year, and has cost the Jaypee Group `11,000 crore, is the country’s longest six-laned (extendable to eight lanes) access controlled concrete pavement stretch and is signal-free. It has reduced the distance between Agra and Delhi to around 211kms and the travel time between the two cities to 150 minutes, and between Greater Noida and the tourist hotspot to just 90 minutes. TrafficInfraTech took a ride on the Expressway on the eve of its inauguration. The Zero point being blocked for arrangements for the opening ceremony, the onward journey towards the control room at first main Toll Plaza located at Jewar (38kms from Greater Noida), took the vehicle through underpasses, service roads, the villages and of course, along Jaypees’s Buddh International Formula one track. Mangala Chandran on the experience and the technological marvel that is Yamuna Expressway.
TrafficInfraTech Expo: Seminar: May 18, 2012
The Day 2 seminar of TrafficInfraTech Expo 2012 was on ‘Challenges in making the operations of State Road Transport Undertakings efficient: Policy, Management & Technologies’. A report.
Endura launches algae-free Super Grip Tiles
Endura, the industrial and exterior tiling solutions brand from H&R Johnson (India) Pvt Ltd has launched a new Super Grip collection in... Read More
General Motors implements AuraPortal Business Process Management Suite
General Motors (GM) has begun implementing AuraPortal, a Business Process Management (BPM) suite from Aura, to increase administrative efficiency at its Ecuador... Read More
Maruti to increase automation at Indian plants
Maruti Suzuki is planning to introduce automation in a big way at its two plants in Manesar to improve productivity and bring... Read More
OMT model for national highways
The Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure has approved the maintenance of national highways based on the Operate, Maintain and Transfer (OMT) mode. This... Read More
TrafficInfraTech Expo: Seminar: May 19, 2012
The session on the topic ‘The need for, challenges in and advantages of achieving Unified ITS Solutions for Highway & Urban Traffic in India’ was moderated by Sanjeev Kumar Lohia, Officer on Special Duty (OSD), Urban Transport Development and Ex-Officio Joint Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India. The panelists were Vivek Phansalkar, Joint Commissioner of Police – Traffic, Mumbai; Dr CSRK Prasad, Professor & Head, Transportation Division, Department of Civil Engineering, NIT Warangal; Rish Malhotra, Business Director of International Road Dynamics (South East India); Dr Vishwanath, Former Director, (Engineering Services and Projects), Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai; and Ravi Kumar, Joint Director and Project Leader for the collaborative intelligent transportation system in India, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) Thiruvananthapuram.
Indians going for more expensive cars
A survey by JD Power Asia-Pacific has revealed that an increasing number of Indians are opting for more expensive cars, buoyed by... Read More
New pollution control system for Uttar Pradesh!
The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) is planning to introduce in Uttar Pradesh an advanced pollution control system to control... Read More
