BEST to get intelligent management system

March 2018

The Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport committee has planned to appoint a service provider to implement an Intelligent Transport Management S...

Tags: Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport, ITMS, BEST staff, Track bus

Seven road rehabilitation projects approved for Madhya Pradesh

March 2018

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has approved seven road rehabilitation projects in Madhya Pradesh. ...

Tags: Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, EPC, Bridges, Minor bridge, Construction

India's Metro Trail

March 2018

The total length of operational metro projects in India presently stands at about 440 km and is growing. Cities like Bengaluru, Chennai, Gurugram, ...

Tags: Metro rail, NCR, Jagannarayan Padmanabhan, CRISIL Infrastructure Advisory, NDA, MRTS, CoMET, MoHUA, JICA, EIB, Werner Hoyer, PPP, K Ravichandran, ICRA, DMRC

By 2025, we will have 250 km of metro network in Karnataka

March 2018

The project is progressing well. Currently, we are operating North-South and East-West that span over 42.8 km with a ridership of more than four lakh...

Tags: Mahendra Jain, Government of Karnataka, Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation, Metropolitan Transport Corporation, Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation, BMTC, BMRC, Rahul kamat

We offer open- and closed-loop ticketing systems

March 2018

Mangal Dev, Head of Hitachi Rail Systems Co, India & South Asia Region feels that inadequate attention to planning, availability of funding and the n...

Tags: Mangal Dev, Hitachi Rail Systems Co, Ansaldo Signalling and Transportation Systems, CBTC, IoT, Lumada IoT solution, DPR, MoHUA, seamless urban transport system, Japan Rail

TOT would enable more assets recycling

March 2018

The recent TOT bids have shown that this model can be ideal for international institutional investors who have appetite for long-term investments and...

Tags: TOT bids, NHAI, Karunakaran Ramchand, IL&FS Transportation Network, PPP, EPC, Bhartmala project, Infrastructure, PPP, EPC, NIIF

Metro Policy 2017

March 2018

The trend of metro rail as an urban transport has gathered momentum ever since Delhi has seen successful implementation of its metro rail project....

Tags: Metro rail, MoUD, Metro Policy 2017, PPP, DBFOT, UMTA, CMP, Urban Transport Fund, VCF, Construction of Works

Budget 2018-19: Infrastructure, Rural Development key

March 2018

Infrastructure development has been one of the top priorities of the Union Budget 2018-19 presented by the Finance Minister Arun Jaitely in Parliamen...

Tags: Infrastructure development, Union Budget 2018-19, Arun Jaitely, Smart Cities mission, transport infrastructure, MSME sector, Abhijit Gupta, CASE India, PMGSY, Sandeep Singh, Tata Hitachi, Schwing Stetter India, Construction Machinery Co, ELGi Equipments, ZF India