Centre to constitute National Road Safety Board

Union Ministry of Road Transport & Highways notified to set up a “National Road Safety Board” recently.Key FactsThe National Safety Board will be responsible for promotion of road safety, innovation and adoption of new technology.It will also regulate traffic and ..

Tags: National Road Safety Board • Road Accidents in India • Road safety • Road traffic management • Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways

Month: Current Affairs - October, 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 Responsibility.HighlightsThe main of the collaboration is to leverage the knowledge of students ..

Tags: Memorandum of understanding • National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) • national highways • Road safety • Road traffic management

Month: Current Affairs - July, 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. in real time for public use. The basic idea behind this arrangement ..

Tags: Commuting • Google Maps • Land transport • Road safety • Road traffic management

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 ‘Intelights’, has been installed at the traffic crossing near the Airport Road, ..

Tags: Closed-circuit television • Land transport • Road traffic management • Road Transport • Street furniture

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 travel when traffic doesn’t flow freely. Mumbai topped the list of cities ..

Tags: Bogotá • Land transport • Mumbai • Road traffic management • Road Transport

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 they were bought. This will help provide preferential treatment to the vehicles ..

Tags: Car costs • Identifiers • Land transport • Parking • Road traffic management