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For high-tech public transport models: Niti Aayog clears six proposals
July 29 , 2017
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• Mass rapid transportation technologies such as hyperloop, metrino and pod taxis could soon be a reality in India after Niti Aayog cleared half-a-dozen proposals of the transport ministry exploring options to improve public transport
• The ministry of road transport and highways sought the approval of NitiAayog to experiment and introduce six latest mass rapid transportation technologies. These technologies include metrino, stadler buses, hyperloop, pod taxis, hybrid buses and freight rail road.
• The new technologies are being explored as current public transportation is unable to resolve the increasing traffic crisis in the country. Besides, some of them are more cost effective than the existing ones.
• Once these safety parameters are tried and tested and the pilot run is successful, some of them including metrino could be up for running by next year’s end.
• Following the go-ahead, the transport ministry has formed a six-member committee, headed by a former top official of Railways, to study safety parameters associated with these technologies and global practices.
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