{"id":32852,"date":"2018-10-29T17:06:08","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T11:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=32852"},"modified":"2018-10-29T17:06:08","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T11:36:08","slug":"indias-first-pod-taxi-on-the-way-to-follow-us-safety-norms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indias-first-pod-taxi-on-the-way-to-follow-us-safety-norms\/","title":{"rendered":"Indias first pod taxi on the way to follow US safety norms\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/indias-1st-pod-taxi-on-the-way-to-follow-us-safety-norms\/article22282385.ece\"><strong>Indias first pod taxi on the way to follow US safety norms<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The much-awaited India\u2019s first pod taxi project has moved a step closer to reality after a high-level panel recommended inviting fresh bids for the same conforming to the strictest safety standards on the lines of those prescribed by an American body<\/p>\n<p><strong>Personal Rapid Transit<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>PRT is an advanced public transport using automated electric pod cars to provide a taxi-like demand responsive feeder and shuttle services for small groups of travellers and is a green mode of uninterrupted journey<\/li>\n<li>The projected \u20b94,000-crore pod taxi scheme \u2014 also known as Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) \u2014 is a dream project of Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari, and the NHAI has been mandated to execute it on Delhi-Gurgaon pilot corridor (12.3 km) from Delhi-Haryana border to Rajiv Chowk in Gurgaon on a PPP (public-private partnership) basis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Plagued by delays<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The ambitious project has been plagued by delays as government think-tank Niti Aayog raised some red flags, asking the highways ministry to direct initial bidders to prepare a 1-km pilot stretch as all the technologies were unproven<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Subsequent delays were caused due to formation of the high- powered committee to lay down safety and other specifications<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Pilot project<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The pilot project, to be taken up on design, build, finance, operate and transfer (DBFOT) basis, is meant for a 12.3-km stretch from Delhi-Haryana border on NH 8 (near Ambience Mall) to Badshahpur via Rajiv Chowk, IFFCO and Sohna Road<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indias first pod taxi on the way to follow US safety norms\u00a0 Context The much-awaited India\u2019s first pod taxi project has moved a step closer to reality after a high-level panel recommended inviting fresh bids for the same conforming to the strictest safety standards on the lines of those prescribed by an American body Personal&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indias-first-pod-taxi-on-the-way-to-follow-us-safety-norms\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Indias first pod taxi on the way to follow US safety norms\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704767510},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}