Pod Taxi in India? New Transport System? Driver less Taxi System
HIGHLIGHTS
The pod taxi project is also known as Personal rapid transit or Metrino
The cost of the project is Rs. 800 crore for a 12.3-km stretch
The pod taxi can return upon the Delhi-Haryana border near NH 8
The govt can presently implement the formidable Personal public transit or Metrino project within the city Region, Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari aforesaid on Sunday.
The test, which can value Rs. 800 crore, can let passengers use India's 1st driverless pods - suspended on a tramway - on a twelve.3-km stretch from the urban center-Haryana border to Badshapur via Rajiv Chowk in Delhi and IFFCO chowk and Sohna Road in Gurgaon.
Mr Gadkari aforesaid that four initial tenders are received and it'll presently invite money bids for the implementation of the project.
"We square measure reaching to implement the Rs. 800-crore test beneath NHAI (National Highways Authority of India). I had a gathering with Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu and it absolutely was finally set that we are able to execute it beneath the NHAI Act. Previously, it absolutely was being explored whether or not to try and do it beneath the Tramways Act or the NHAI Act," the minister value-added.
A ministry official aforesaid there'll be thirteen stations on the stretch and 5 folks will travel in one pod,
"Four world corporations - one from London that has done add this regard at the Heathrow flying field, one from the UAE, one from the United States and one from European country have qualified in initial technical bids. Once the road transport and highways ministry approves it, we'll float money bids," a politician aforesaid.
"Initially, we have a tendency to square measure coming up with one,100 pods and therefore the system are specified if one should travel from station one to twelfth, on a selected command that individual pod would reach the twelfth station with none halt," the official explained.
The complete transport project for travel in driver-less pods suspended on a tramway in NCR wil value Rs. 4,000 crore.
The first part plans connecting the 70-km stretch from Dhaula Kuan in urban center to Manesar in Haryana to decongest NCR and ease traffic.
The tramway system runs on electricity, and driverless pods return down at selected stations, so shifting the traffic burden from the already full roads.
Under the project, absolutely automatic, driverless little pods travel severally suspended over AN overhead network that is typically 5-10 meters higher than the bottom.
A few months past, a presentation on the project was created before Prime Minister Narendra Modi and therefore the Union cupboard.
Mr Gadkari has aforesaid the huge work is beneath thanks to reform the face of the road sector and therefore the test are one such step in this direction.