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 …
Capital Development Authority (CDA) has finalized feasibility report for launching of Prime Minister’s CDA Rapid Bus Transit Project and will advertise the formal process for the procurement of CNG buses during this week. The process of procurement will be completed within 20 days after the advertisement and the project will …
KOLKATA, 10 OCT: As the state does not have a steady supply of compressed natural gas (CNG), the state transport department has taken up a project to use coalbed methane (CBM) as an alternative to run buses in the state to check pollution. Unlike CNG, the state has a rich …
The report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has stated that during 2008-09, Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) procured 2,500 low floor buses (1,000 AC and 1,500 Non-AC) at an inordinately high price. It also found that between September and November 2009, the Corporation procured additional 625 buses at the …
New Delhi: If you complained of fewer DTC buses on the road during CommonwealthGames,here’sthe reason why: Several low-floor buses were kept idle even as bus drivers were withdrawn from regular schedules and re-deployed in buses plying for CWG. The Comptroller andAuditor General’s report on the bus service during CWG throws …
New Delhi: After Tata and Ashok Leyland, Volvo is now eyeing the Delhi Transport Corporation. A single bus of the company will be plying on trial basis on the Teevra Mudrika route.
Around 40 percent of all pubic transport minibuses operating in the city have been converted to Compressed Natural Gas (CNG). There are more than 20,810 registered buses and minibuses operating in the city. Recently, some companies have introduced a new technology to convert diesel vehicles to CNG in the city. …
JV between Swedish, Delhi govts will convert biogas from Keshopur sewage treatment plants to CNG In the first such project undertaken in the country, Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) will be produced from biogas generated at sewage treatment plants in the Capital. The CNG produced will be then utilised to run …
To begin with, 231 buses will operate on 32 routes across South Delhi The first cluster of private stage carriage buses that would run under a new corporatisation scheme in Delhi was flagged off by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit from Delhi Secretariat on Thursday. To begin with, 231 buses would …
New Delhi: Just before the Commonwealth Games the government had decided that the city needed new, modern steel bus queue shelters (BQS). In this too, the Shunglu committee has unearthed a rigged bidding process, irregular payments to contractors running into lakhs and a huge loss to the exchequer. The project …
The transport sector received the biggest share of budgetary allocations with Rs 3,348 crore being earmarked for various projects, including the construction of 14 new Integrated Transport Corridors, development of ISBTs and renovation of existing ones. The Budget announced the construction of Delhi Metro
The irrigation and Flood Control department, the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) and the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) assured the High Court on Wednesday that the world
AJL Proposes To Reject 94 Buses, Impose Fine Of Rs 12,500 Per Vehicle TIMES NEWS NETWORK Ahmedabad: The future of the Tata buses in AMTS and BRTS fleet that were to hit Ahmedabad streets by October last year hangs by a thread. In at least two meeting held by the …
Agartala, Oct 6: After 22 years, the Tripura government will bring back town bus services in capital Agartala by introducing 75 buses that run on compressed natural gas (CNG) to make it a
New Delhi: The Commonwealth Games gifted Delhi a swanky new bus depot, claimed to be the largest such facility in the world, on Thursday when chief minister Sheila Dikshit inaugurated the Millennium Park depot. The facility is located next to the Games Village and has the capacity to house 1,000 …
