Petrol price hike: Many dump cars, rush to enter public transport

Most recent in circles of petrol price hike has prompted commuters to dump their vehicles and exchange to public transport. In the last 4 days, over 20,000 commuters have switched over to Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) and the Ahmedabad Municipal Transport service (AMTS).

Officials in the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) say the average number of passengers travelling by the BRTS was about 1.08 lakh. Since May 25, this has increased to about 1.13 lakh for every day.

On May 23, about 1.06 lakh passengers travelled by BRTS and on May 25 this increased to 1.13 lakh. AMC officials say more people will switch giving the fact that more air conditioned buses were being introduced. The traffic will further increase by about 18,000 passengers after schools and colleges reopen.

Similarly there was a increase of about 15,000 passengers for every day in the AMTS buses. Officials said the daily passenger traffic in AMTS buses was about 9 lakh. This has touched 9.20 lakh ever since the petrol prices were hiked. Rajesh Patel, who stays near Subhash Bridge says, "I have to travel from Chandkheda to Paldi. I earlier used my two-wheeler but with the increase in the petrol prices, I have decided to use the BRT. I walk for nearly 500 metre to board a BRTS bus."

Holden Inks agreement to Ship Commodore ‘Muscle Cars’ To America

Holden will hit American roads again after more than 15 years of absence in the region, GM Holden report on Friday, and the North American incarnation will come in the form of Australia's venerable sedan, the Commodore.

According to Holden's engineering chief, Greg Tyus, the Australian carmaker will assemble the VF Commodore on its South Australian factory and will start shipping out early 2013.

The United States will welcome the Aussie vehicle as General Motors' Chevrolet SS high-performance sedan, which initially will be deployed on the race car circuits of America's hugely popular and lucrative NASCAR.

Commodore, according to Mr Tyus, will compete in the Daytona 500 if plans push through.

Then, further units will be assembled to mass marketing, with General Motors reportedly planning to sell each Commodore unit as a new generation muscle car, an automotive market segment that Holden said lately has been seeing resurgence in the United States.

Cars with an efficiency equal to train

The slightest contaminate cars on sale at the end of this decade will be so well-organized that they match the cleanest of today's speedy electric trains, Richard Parry-Jones told an clever move conference in London.

Parry-Jones, one of the industry's most appreciated engineers, guesses that by 2020, the car trade is targeting just 40g/km of tailpipe carbon, which interpret to 25g/km per passenger when the standard number of tenant in cars - 1.6 - is factored in. That number is similar with today's most professional electric trains; "that's `n outstanding growth when you think that the typical average was 140g/km in 2000," said Parry-Jones.

He also expects that bright cars that inter-communicate with one another and traffic management systems are the future of the car trade. In addition to this he said that the networked vehicles below digital power are going to become the future of car manufacturing.

The previous Ford engineer is now top of the industry-government Automotive Council and chairman-designate of Network Rail.

The transport minister Justine Greening at the conference said that the British road network needed improvement to manage with a potential 44 per cent boost in traffic. He also said that the passage increase like that would put our country under a crippling damage. Around £1.5bn will be used up on national and local road improvements with a further £2.3bn mark down for major roads. 

Though, hope for road development may center on public-private finance initiatives. Greening told that, “With the Treasury we are looking at attracting extra economics from private financiers”.

The government is trying to convince British pension’s finances to spend in transportation in return for trustworthy, long-term financial returns. She said that they are also in need to use these roads more cleverly.