Category: Technology

With the aim to fast track disbursement of compensation for land acquisition to property owners, NHAI will now shift to a new system where the amount will be transferred directly to the beneficiaries’ accounts through the Public Finance Management System (PFMS).

MoRTH in coordination with Telangana police, health and transport departments has launched an Integrated Road Accident Database (iRAD) project with an aim to build a comprehensive database about road accidents across the state on a demo basis.

On August 25, 2021 Karnataka Bank, a Mangalore based private sector lender, launched its ‘KBL FASTag’ in association with National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI) and FASTag processor Worldline.

The Odisha Government has launched a web and mobile application for building an integrated road accident database (IRAD).

The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) has decided to switch to monopile foundation technology from multiple-pile foundation to construct pillars for bridge and interchanges of the 10.58 km coastal road project to be constructed from Princess Street to Worli.

In an attempt to put a check on over-speeding vehicles on the 150 km Tuni-Siddhantham national highway in Andhra Pradesh, NHAI has initiated several steps by adopting the hi-tech gadgets.

NHAI has fast-tracked the plan to launch the GPS-based tolling with one of its subsidiaries floating a tender to engage a technical consultant to prepare the roadmap.

MoRTH has alerted NHAI, NHIDCL and its other wings besides automobile makers to augment their IT security systems, after reports regarding threats of possible cyber-attacks targeted at the Indian transport sector.

In line with its commitment to adopt technology to enhance transparency and accountability, NHAI has deployed artificial intelligence (AI)-based face recognition system for field staff’s attendance monitoring.

The Bombay High Court (HC) has directed MoRTH and NHAI to respond to a public interest litigation (PIL) challenging the decision of making FASTag mandatory for all vehicles.

The mandatory FASTag for highways is expected to help save Rs 200 billion per annum on fuel and boost the revenue by at least Rs 100 billion.

MoRTH has begun real-time monitoring of toll plazas across the country, in order to improve traffic congestion problem at toll plazas/ city roads/highways by using central monitoring system along with bundle of analytics and quick decision-making outputs.