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 …
Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar and Ashok Kumar NEW DELHI: Following another fire in a low-floor Delhi Transport Corporation bus in Moti Nagar here on Thursday, the Delhi Government swung into action and hauled up Tata Motors which is responsible for the maintenance of these buses. It also constituted a four-member committee …
This report focuses on heavy-duty natural gas engine technologies that can achieve Euro III, IV, V and VI emission compliance levels. It is based on a comprehensive review of technical literature regarding emission performance & technologies was performed for compressed natural gas engines of model year 2000 and newer. This …
The government is to set a model mega CNG station in Karachi at the cost of Rs150.6 million to promote the CNG buses. The project to be executed by the Hydrocarbon Development Institute of Pakistan (HDIP) is expected to be operational by the end of 2010.
New Delhi: After the recent case of fire in a Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) bus running on a school route, the government has drawn up an elaborate plan to make the entire fleet leakage proof. All buses which have undergone checks will now sport stickers on the front windscreen for …
After having experimented with dedicated bus lanes in the central verge and the left on the first Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Corridor between Ambedkar Nagar to Delhi Gate, the Delhi Government has now come up with another idea to successfully run the BRT Corridor. It has now proposed to bring …
CM WANTS DELHI GOVERNMENT'S SHARE IN NCR TOLL TAX COLLECTION Ms Dikshit said that it was the Delhi government which took the initiative to buy CNG-run buses and set the entire apparatus in place Union minister for forest and environment Jairam Ramesh was on Thursday snubbed by Delhi chief minister …
Swaraj Baggonkar / Mumbai November 4, 2009, 0:48 IST Tata Motors, India's biggest auto company by revenue, has speeded bus production at its massive Dharwad facility, primarily to avoid any delay in honouring its commitment to supply low-floor buses to the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC). Both Tata Motors and Chennai-based …
Pune Fleet to be deployed only in Mumbai in first phase The much-awaited eco-friendly Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) buses will skip Pune, at least in the first phase of deployment. As many as 60 buses were to be rolled out in Pune after the assembly elections, Now, these buses are …
New Delhi: By next year, Delhi can expect to have its own hop-on-hop-off heritage tourist bus service modelled on the lines of the London counterpart. Delhi government has proposed to introduce specially designed double-decker buses, which will be run on tailor-made routes taking tourists not just to monuments but also …
New Delhi: Soon, Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) will run chartered buses on dedicated routes connecting business districts and bus terminals with residential pockets in the capital. Delhi government has reportedly asked the corporation to carry out a detailed commuter survey to finalize the routes. The new fleet is being envisaged …
Already facing the brunt of inflation, the common man travelling on public transport in the Capital was not spared on Monday by the Delhi Government. A segment untouched so far by the Government much to the relief of the people, the honeymoon is now over. By the passing of a …
83 To Ply On Three Routes In BRT Corridor TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: Finally, some good news regarding lowfloor buses. On Sunday, 107 low-floor buses
Sudhir Nair, a Bangalore-based software professional, gets his travel expenses reimbursed by his company. But he prefers public transport to using his car. The reason: the low-floor air-conditioned Volvo city buses.
Sudhir Nair, a Bangalore-based software professional, gets his travel expenses reimbursed by his company. But he prefers public transport to using his car. The reason: the low-floor air-conditioned Volvo city buses.
New Delhi: In order to improve the transport facility within AIIMS, the institute is planning to replace its existing fleet of seven batteryoperated buses with CNG mini buses. These buses ply between the OPD block and the parking area, which is nearly a kilometre away from the OPD. Sources at …
NEW DELHI: Noting that the Capital has been able to check pollution by using eco-friendly compressed natural gas (CNG) for its public transport system, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Thursday emphasised the need to conserve and preserve resources for the future and make use of new and renewable energy …
The federal government has approved the project of CNG buses for Karachi under which 1,600 buses will start plying city roads during the current year, said City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal. Speaking at a press conference here on Monday, he said that the federal government also approved a loaning programme …
