Dhaka, March 18 -- The interim government's initiative to install new semi-automated traffic signals in the capital's one of the busiest corridors is yet to be fully functional after over six months o... Read More
Dhaka, March 15 -- The Roads and Highways Department (RHD) plans to bring the country's highways under a round-the-clock monitoring system following the successful introduction of the intelligent tran... Read More
Dhaka, March 5 -- Dhaka's metro-rail operator has slipped into fresh uncertainty, with almost all its senior leadership positions vacant and a growing internal dispute threatening administrative stabi... Read More
Dhaka, March 3 -- The new BNP government is likely to adopt a strategic transport policy centred on bus and light rail-based public transport in the capital, marking a major shift from the previous go... Read More
Dhaka, Feb. 27 -- All vehicle users will now be able to pay tolls on road bridges electronically as the Roads and Highways Department (RHD) has opened its e-payment system to all banks and mobile bank... Read More
Dhaka, Feb. 10 -- A multimodal transportation plan has been finalised at the fag end of the interim government's term to guide all related agencies in implementing future infrastructure development pr... Read More
Dhaka, Feb. 6 -- At least 10 laws, regulations and policy reforms were introduced in the road transport sector since 2009. But, most of these remained largely unimplemented over the past 16 years. Se... Read More
Dhaka, Feb. 2 -- Over 50 per cent of the projects taken under the public-private partnership (PPP) development model since 2009, mostly involving foreign investment, stay put despite having been enlis... Read More
Dhaka, Jan. 31 -- Although at least four major transport plans were taken for the capital city since 1990s, the scope of launching mono rail or light rapid transit (LRT) as a mode of mass transit syst... Read More
Dhaka, Jan. 25 -- A reputed South Korean company has in principle agreed to invest in an assembling plant of metro-rail coaches in Bangladesh, which is expected to be a major import-substitution ventu... Read More