Electric bikes, or e-bikes, are close substitutes for cars and two-wheelers because they cover longer distances with less effort. Thus, e-bikes will play a key role in shifting passenger and freight trips away from high-polluting private vehicles and generating fewer emissions if used at scale. While vehicle electrification has focused …
North Bengal State Transport Corporation (NBSTC) on Tuesday felicitated one driver each from its 21 depots for achieving highest mileage for the buses they operated. The drivers were selected under Fortnight Fuel Conservancy Programme held by the corporation from February 2 to 14 with an aim to reduce the amount …
MUMBAI: The city's civic bus utility is expecting to augment the size of its fleet by 1,000 buses, of which 200 will be air-conditioned, by June. The Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport Undertaking (BEST) has applied for funds of Rs 300 crore under the Centre's Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal …
Divergent views were presented by experts in the field of transport regarding the governments announcements for the road transport sector. Traffic expert M N Srihari felt the amount allocated was just not adequate. The shortfall in tax collections may have resulted in this scenario, he opined.
Ranchi, Feb. 19: Ranchi, Jamshedpur and Dhanbad will be getting 300 buses under a Central urban development scheme in what will be the first step towards setting up a public transportation network in the three key cities of Jharkhand. The council of the Governor
Mumbai: Unlike its counterparts in Thane and Navi Mumbai, the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) Undertaking is all prepared to extend its bus services beyond the city and suburban limits, and this time with brand new buses. After the state government relaxed boundary restrictions between civic corporations, BEST has …
Mumbai: With an objective to boost the public transport in the city, the central sanctioning and monitoring committee on Tuesday sanctioned Rs 276 crore for buying 900 buses.
CHANDIGARH: The Haryana Government on Monday decided to provide a 50 per cent concession in bus fares to women above the age of 60 years in ordinary buses of Haryana Roadways, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda announced after chairing a meeting of his Cabinet. The concession will be available to …
Soon decades-old buses will vanish from the streets of the steel city and a low-floored fleet will roll in. The phase-out move is aimed at fulfilling the guidelines set by the District Transport Office (DTO) as well as ensuring a comfortable ride for passengers. DTO has directed phasing out of …
This study assesses the changing status of intercity bus service throughout the United States between 1960 and 2007. Drawing on data from more than 5,000 arrivals and departures in a representative sample of American cities, it shows that U.S. cities lost nearly one-third of their scheduled intercity service between 1960 …
The government has reduced the fare of diesel-run inter-district and long-haul vehicles by Tk 0.07 per kilometer following the reduction of diesel oil price by Tk 7. However, the fares of CNG-driven buses and minibuses plying in Dhaka and Chittagong Metropolitan cities remained unchanged at Tk 1.20 and 1.10 per …
THE news that the traffic department of Dhaka Metropolitan Police is returning the previously seized unfit buses to their owners, because of lack of space in its dumping yard, is a bit disconcerting. The whole exercise was aimed at clearing the city roads of the old, faulty vehicles that cause …
At least 3,000 outmoded and unfit small buses ply in the capital disregarding a ban under the very nose of the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority and the Dhaka Metropolitan Police. The communications ministry in collaboration with the traffic department of DMP in 2002 had imposed the ban on the plying …
Dhaka Metropolitan Transport Committee has stopped renewing route permits of buses and minibuses over 15 years old, as the communications ministry has decided to impose restrictions on such vehicles in the city. According to the decision, the bus owners should withdraw such buses from Dhaka and can replace their old …
Ahmedabad: In the final run for winning the contract for the operations and maintenance of Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) services, EURO-3 diesel run buses have taken the lead. The bids quoted by the five main operators are in range of Rs 34-Rs 36 per kilometre for EURO-3 diesel bu …
By S Lalitha, DH News Service, Bangalore: To reduce pollution emissions, the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) plans to incorporate sophisticated filters and use diesel-ethanol in the 600 buses of the Mysore urban division under the Global Environment Facility (GEF) project, an international initiative to preserve the environment. By …
Despite objections by the Punjab Roadways Transport Corporation and roadways unions, the Punjab Government has approved a draft that will allow private buses to operate in Chandigarh. All the buses will be air-conditioned and will start from various cities in Punjab including Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Amritsar and Bathinda. Till now, only …
Autorickshaws and private buses are responsible for the snarls on city roads, a Besu study has revealed. The study, commissioned by the Calcutta Municipal Corporation (CMC), was conducted by the transportation engineering and planning wing of the civil engineering department under the leadership of Prof Sudip Roy. "There are over …
The Central Railway (CR) on Thursday launched the 'GO Mumbai' smartcard, a first-of-its-kind travel card which works like a pre-paid telephone card, and can be used for travel on the main line of CR, its Harbour line and BEST buses. "This is a red-letter day. A journey begins with buying …
With the de-nationalisation of remaining 171 roads in the State, entire bus transport facility of Madhya Pradesh will come into the hands of private undertakings by June 1. "In the State, out of the 681 nationalised routes, 510 routes were already deleted from the nationalised scheme after the state government …
