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Road traffic management

Centre to constitute National Road Safety Board

Union Ministry of Road Transport & Highways notified to set up a “National Road Safety Board” recently. Key Facts The National Safety Board will be responsible for promotion...

October 7, 2021

NHAI to collaborate with premier Technical Institutes

The National Highways Authority of India has approached NITs, IITs and other reputed Engineering colleges to stretch National Highways. The institutes have been approached under their Institutional Social...

July 14, 2020

Gurugram Police ties up with Google for traffic updates

The Gurugram traffic police have tied up with Google maps for dissemination of traffic related information such as planned road closures, diversions, traffic alerts regarding road crash etc....

September 12, 2019

India’s first 3-D Smart Traffic Signal ‘Intelights’ launched Mohali

In a first-of-its-kind initiative in the country, Mohali traffic police have launched 3-D Smart Traffic Signal devised by the students of a Chandigarh university. The wireless system, called...

August 6, 2019

Mumbai most congested city in world

The TomTom Traffic Index 2018, carried out by location technology specialist TomTom, covered 403 cities in 56 countries and defined congestion as the extra time added to road...

June 7, 2019

Green Number Plates become important for all Electric Vehicles

The government has asked the state transport departments to make it necessary for all Electronic Vehicles to use the green number plates, irrespective of the year in which...

May 3, 2019

Luxembourg is set become world’s first country to make all its public transport free by 2019

Luxembourg is set to become the first country in the world to make all its public transport free by 2019. The move is aimed at addressing environmental issues...

December 8, 2018

Bengaluru India’s most congested city

The US-based National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) has recently published the report titled ‘Mobility and Congestion in Urban India’. In it, Bengaluru has been ranked India’s most...

November 13, 2018

Chandigarh becomes North India’s first city to install digital automatic speed gun cameras for traffic management

Chandigarh has become the North India’s first city to install digital automatic speed gun cameras for traffic management. The high-tech speed cameras are equipped with night vision technology...

March 25, 2018

Nitin Gadkari releases India’s first-ever Highway Capacity Manual (Indo-HCM) in New Delhi

The Minister of Road Transport & Highways, Shipping and Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Nitin Gadkari has released India’s first-ever Highway Capacity Manual (Indo-HCM) in New...

February 12, 2018

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