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 …
The government will import 300 CNG-run buses to operate them on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway with a view to reducing air pollution, State Minister for Environment and Forests Dr Hasan Mahmud said at a workshop in the city yesterday. He said the government has emphasised mass transportation system to reduce traffic …
Vijayawada, May 31: The Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation Vijayawada region has decided to introduce new city buses according to the demand. It launched 31 new CNG buses to meet the commuters rush on Monday. Four bus services to Haailand (recreation park) and Duggirala in Guntur district and the …
ISLAMABAD: The government has initiated a project to promote public transportation including providing 10,000 compressed natural gas (CNG) buses in major cities across the country to tackle the air quality issue. While addressing the one-day national workshop on
Though the occupancy rate of the new Tata low-floor buses is more than 100 per cent, the company is yet to fix the reoccurring snags. Minor breakdowns have not stopped ever since the buses started plying on city roads. While Tata, under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) …
The Delhi government assured the High Court on Friday that it was complying with the court directives to phase out Blueline buses and install global positioning systems (GPS) in nearly 7,500 DTC buses running in the Capital. The government counsel said GPS will be installed in nearly 1,000 buses every …
Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Tuesday virtually snubbed the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) for its report on procurement of low-floor buses by her government, saying the auditor should have taken a much more
CAG report castigates govt for procuring low-floor buses at unjustified high rate and adding to cost by installing unnecessary features Delhi government
Brihanmumbai Electric Supply & Transport Undertaking (BEST) will get 468 CNG buses under the under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). The executive committee of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) on Thursday sanctioned a loan of Rs 88.39 crore to BEST for the purchase. The loan …
ISLAMABAD: To improve public transport system, the government approved Private-Public Partnership Environment Friendly Public Transport system for major urban centres of Pakistan with a total cost of Rs 5 billion, sources told Daily Times here on Saturday. This transport system would be initiated in 10 major cities including Karachi, Lahore, …
To facilitate the commuters of Karachi, 4,000 CNG buses will be operated in the city by 2012 under the public-private partnership project. This was informed at a meeting of high officials presided over by Sindh Chief Secretary Fazalur Rehman at his office on Thursday. The CNG buses project would directly …
Sandeep Joshi NEW DELHI: With thousands of city buses to be purchased under the ambitious Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) by various State governments, major automobile manufacturers, including Ashok Leyland, Tata Motors, Volvo and Eicher have showcased their high-capacity buses at the Auto Expo here. From diesel to …
Sandeep Joshi NEW DELHI: Tata Motors has undertaken an exhaustive check-up of all its low-floor high-capacity CNG buses supplied to Delhi Transport Corporation so far. The process will be completed by this month-end . The move comes in the wake of a series of fire accidents in these new buses …
Paul John | TNN Ahmedabad: After a series of incidents where swanky Tata buses being used by Delhi Transport Corporation were either catching fire or developing snags, Ahmedabad Janmarg Limited (AJL) has engaged an expert to give detailed report on them. The report to be submitted within a week and …
With a large number of Indian cities embarking on natural gas vehicle programme it is essential that the elements of these programmes are well defined for maximum environmental and public health gains. It is important that the lessons are drawn from the well established programmes in the region to chart …
Following a Delhi government directive for a complete check of low-floor buses supplied by Tata Motors, nearly 350 low- floor buses were checked at 10 depots over the last four days. Anticipating less rush over the last four days due to public holidays, the Delhi Transport Corporation had taken the …
Even after the third consecutive day of the thorough check up of the low floor buses on Monday, the manufacturer Tata Motors is yet to identify the actual cause of the fire. The maintenance staff are conducting bumper to bumper check of the buses at all 10 low floor bus …
New Delhi: This blaze is certainly spiralling out of control now. Fire was reported in yet another DTC low-floor bus in Vivek Vihar area of east Delhi on Thursday. In less than a month, this is the ninth bus of the newly-acquired fleet to have caught fire. Luckily, no passenger …
