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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. Highlights The main of the collaboration is to leverage the knowledge of students and faculty towards improvement of road infrastructure. Benefits When an institute adopts a ..
Month: Current Affairs - July, 2020
Category: India Nation & States Current Affairs
Topics: Memorandum of understanding • National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) • national highways • Road safety • Road traffic management • Traffic accidents in India
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 is to prompt commuters to make intelligent choices in order to make their commuting experience ..
Topics: Commuting • Google Maps • Land transport • Road safety • Road traffic management • Road Transport • traffic • Traffic law • Transport
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, on a pilot project basis, and will regulate traffic signals with a smart bird’s eye ..
Topics: Closed-circuit television • Land transport • Road traffic management • Road Transport • Street furniture • Timer • traffic • Traffic congestion • Traffic law • Traffic light • Traffic signals • Transport
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 with drivers expecting to spend an average of 65% extra travel time stuck in traffic. ..
Topics: Bogotá • Land transport • Mumbai • Road traffic management • Road Transport • TomTom • traffic • Traffic congestion • 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 with no carbon emissions, like parking, free entry in congested areas as well as a ..
Topics: Car costs • Identifiers • Land transport • Parking • Road traffic management • Road Transport • Taxation in the United Kingdom • Toll road • Transport • Vehicle registration plate • Vehicles