Wednesday, September 17th, 2014
South Australian motorists are turning to a cutting-edge mapping website that’s helping them avoid traffic congestion and plan quicker, more efficient road trips. The interactive Traffic SA mobile site – which highlights traffic accidents, road closures and...
Thursday, July 31st, 2014
Even as Delhi boasts it is the “flyover capital” of India, traffic experts emphasise that poor urban planning and mindless construction of new flyovers is not a solution to growing traffic bottlenecks in the city.Instead of decongesting...
Thursday, May 15th, 2014
Traffic safety in Bangalore is the focus of a recent effort by a team of experts at the Indian Institute of Science to map incidents for improved roadway safety. The project is taking place with the cooperation...
Tuesday, October 22nd, 2013
A detailed and highly accurate online NSW Bushfire Community Map has been launched to keep the public informed about evacuation centres, air quality, traffic control issues, emergency alerts, school closures and the current status of the numerous...
Saturday, March 9th, 2013
According to some estimates the next five years are going to see Bangkok’s legendary traffic come to a complete halt. Because of the tax rebate on cars, the additional numbers of vehicles on the roads are going...
Sunday, February 24th, 2013
Prominent stakeholders of the Kochi Metro are peeved at Kochi Corporation’s apathy in readying infrastructure for streamlining traffic, despite the metro’s work set to begin in a few months’ time. The traffic restrictions imposed for an unspecified period...
Tuesday, August 21st, 2012
Indian cities face infrastructure challenges, and an agency within the Delhi Development Authority is moving in the right direction. The Unified Traffic and Transportation Infrastructure (Planning and Engineering) Center, known more simply as Uttipec, was established in...
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
Leicester University researchers will test their CityScan devices — previously covered in The Engineer when they were under the design and construction phase — on three rooftops across London to generate a 3D pollution map of the...
Monday, December 19th, 2011
Access to and usage of Chinese geographic data have both improved with the establishment of three key platforms, according to a conference held by the National Administration of Surveying, Mapping and Geoinformation (NASMG) on Monday. The three...
