Habitat And Urbanisation

Ease norms to help meet highway target

Ministry Finds It Hard To Award Deals For 2,609km

Publication Date: 
16/02/2012
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Highways, Ministry of Shipping Road Transport and Highways, Road Transport, Roads, India, Habitat And Urbanisation
Habitat And Urbanisation

PM sets targets for awarding road & highway projects

Following an intervention from the PMO, the Highways Ministry has extended an assurance that it will wrap up the award of 26 road projects to ensure that the target set for the current fiscal is me

Publication Date: 
15/02/2012
Indian Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Highways, Roads, Habitat And Urbanisation, India, Ministry of Shipping Road Transport and Highways, Road Transport, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana
Transport

Cabinet okays Bus Rapid Transit project between Airport-Gazipur

A cabinet meeting, chaired by prime minister Sheikhy Hasina, on Monday approved in principle a proposal for the creation of a special organization for operating Bus Rapid Transit between Shahjalal

Publication Date: 
07/02/2012
New Age (Bangladesh)
Tags:
Bangladesh, South Asia, High Capacity Bus, Congestion, Road Transport
Natural Disasters

Season’s heaviest snowfall in Dhauladhar range

Palampur: The entire Dhauladhar range and the Chhota and Bara Bhangal areas of the Palampur region experienced the heaviest snowfall of this season in the past 24 hours.

Publication Date: 
17/01/2012
Tribune (New Delhi)
Tags:
Natural Disasters, Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, Road Transport
Transport

Report of the working group on road transport for formulation of Twelfth Five Year Plan (2012-2017)

Road Transport is vital to the economic development and social integration of the country. Easy accessibility, flexibility of operations, door-to-door service and reliability have earned road transport an increasingly higher share of both passenger and freight traffic vis-à-vis other transport modes.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2012
Ministry of Road Transport and Highways
Tags:
Road Transport, India, Freight Transport, Public Transport, Motorised Vehicles, Vehicles
Transport

Report of the sub-group on state road transport undertakings formed under the working group on road transport constituted by Planning Commission for the Twelfth Five Year Plan (2012 – 2017)

The Planning Commission vide their Order No.18/3/2011-Tpt dated 06.04.2011 has constituted a Working Group on Road Transport for the Formulation of Twelfth Five Year Plan (2012-2017).

Publication Date: 
01/01/2012
Planning Commission
Tags:
Road Transport, India, Transport, Vehicles, Buses, Finance, Fuel Efficiency, Public Transport, Diesel, Alternative Fuels
Habitat And Urbanisation

Road connectivity suffers as forest clearance delayed

Udhampur: The work on construction of a new 10-kilometre Lambi Zai-Jora Road in Bhadarwah area of Doda district which touches Souti Changa, the native village of Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi A

Publication Date: 
29/12/2011
Tribune (New Delhi)
Tags:
Udhampur (D), Road Transport, Roads, Habitat And Urbanisation, Forests, Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, Kishtwar (D)
Transport

A Volvo every hour from Chandigarh to Delhi: Haryana transport dept

Haryana government has announced that it will run 35 Volvo buses on the Chandigarh-New Delhi route.

Publication Date: 
27/12/2011
Indian Express (Chandigarh)
Tags:
Buses, Road Transport, Transport, Delhi, Chandigarh
Transport

PMC’s public bicycle project back on track

The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) general body (GB) on Monday approved a proposal for the public bicycle project.

Publication Date: 
20/12/2011
Daily News Analysis (Mumbai)
Tags:
Cycles, Pune (D), Municipal Corporation, Road Transport, Public Transport, NGO
Transport

Best practices in green freight for an environmentally sustainable road freight sector in Asia

The efficient movement of goods and services is important in achieving sustainable development. All main modes of freight – road, water, air, and rail – have impacts on the economy, environment, and society that need to be managed.

Publication Date: 
02/12/2011
Sophie Punte, Sudhir Gota, Yan Peng
UNCRD
Tags:
Freight Transport, Transport, Asia, India, Environment, Sustainable Development, Road Transport, Carbon Dioxide, Vehicles, Heavy Duty Vehicle, Fuel Economy Standards

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