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25 August 2009
India's Road Transport and Highways Ministry has plans to grant 58 contracts with a total value of US$3.94 billion over the next 12 months.
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24 August 2009
SIAM Annual Convention 2009: 50 years of SIAM
“Auto Industry: Revival, Restructuring & Sustainable Growth”
28th August 2009 (0830 hrs – 1700 hrs); Hotel Taj Palace, New Delhi
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09 October 2008
Globalization has brought India into the forefront of progress. This development has provided a substantial economic stimulus to enhance progress across India which includes enabling people to afford cars and increase their movement on the roads. Various multinational companies including motor vehicle manufacturers have created establishments in India. The increased usage of the cars has enhanced the need for developing the infrastructure where these motor vehicles can move safely. Developing safe roads which connect destinations and cities is a key foundation to infrastructural development in a country where the population is more than 1 billion. This commentary reviews various aspects of road safety in heavily populated and developing India where motor vehicle trauma is a modern epidemic.
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24 July 2008
India will invest 310 billion rupees ($7.2 billion) by 2012 to build roads in its troubled northeast, improving internal connectivity and with China, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan
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17 March 2008
The capital's traffic system is in for a major overhaul before the Commonwealth Games in 2010, with Delhi Police planning to put in place an IT-driven Intelligent Traffic System which will monitor and streamline vehicular movement.
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28 January 2008
India's Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved construction of various ring roads, bypasses and flyovers.
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10 January 2008
The Delhi Metro has become the first railway project in the world to be registered by the United Nations under the Clean Development Mechanism which will enable it to claim carbon credits.
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07 December 2007
India has the world’s highest number of road accident deaths, and it is steadily climbing every year.
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04 December 2007
The Unified Metro Transport Authorities will soon be set-up in mega cities with a population of more than a million for implementing urban transport programmes and projects.
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28 November 2007
The Tatas, Mahindras and Ashok Leylands are in the race to be part of a consortium of select companies from India, China, Brazil and South Africa that would work along with European Union countries in research in the automotive field.
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21 November 2007
Creation of joint EU-India expert working groups, project proposals and joint road transport research roadmaps were major outcomes of the event
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30 October 2007
In order to improve road safety standards and traffic management in the country, the Ministry of Road Transport has finalised the formalities for setting up a committee on traffic management.
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25 October 2007
ERM International has awarded an environmental certificate to the proposed Colombo Katunayake Expressway.
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09 October 2007
Smart cards for driving licences and registration certificates for vehicles targeted to be completed by March 2008
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08 October 2007
Movement to decongest Majestic area by
relocating operations of all Tamil Nadu-bound buses to the Mysore Road Terminal has only shifted the traffic congestion.
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28 September 2007
Ministry of heavy industries is considering a proposal to make it mandatory for cars manufactured in India to have RFID-enabled tags fitted.
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26 September 2007
Massive improvement plan is on the cards to decongest the city from the bustling vehicular traffic.
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26 September 2007
On 21-22 November 2007 experts will exchange know-how in New Delhi at the SIMBA India National Event
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25 September 2007
India signed a memorandum of cooperation with the United States on urban transportation to address challenges thrown up by large-scale urbanisation
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31 August 2007
Phone traffic used as proxy for people traffic
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21 August 2007
Chief Environmental Officer of KSRTC Ananda Rao speaking at a function to mark Renewable Energy Day in Mysore on
Monday.
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13 August 2007
Chennai will soon have India's first "intelligent" bus station with a centre-sponsored group already started working on the project.
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09 August 2007
Stringent action will be taken against those who flout road rules and put other road users to peril.
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09 August 2007
Proliferation of personal vehicles and population influx expose chinks in infrastructure
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01 August 2007
Motorbike riders using portable media devices with ear-phones to be fined
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26 July 2007
Public transport and traffic managers have started using IT keeping mind the comfort and safety of commuters in cities that are choking for lack of efficient transportation
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08 June 2007
Spanish firm gets contract for system that will cut waiting time at signals by half; 50 south Mumbai junctions identified
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15 February 2007
The decision of the Tamil Nadu Government to restore the rule requiring two-wheeler riders to wear a crash helmet is a positive step that can reduce the toll of death and disability caused by road accidents.
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14 February 2007
A road safety programme aimed at teaching children traffic rules ended in the Capital on Thursday. Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit gave away awards to children who participated in the Mercedes-Benz Mobile Kids programme organised in partnership with the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), the Traffic Police Department and the Department of Education.
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