ET Infra Roads & Highways Summit 2025: Spotlight on tech-enabled road development, ETInfra
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NEW DELHI: The second edition of ET Infra's Roads and Highways Summit will be held on Friday in Delhi wherein stakeholders from the government and the private sector will deliberate and discuss on the various aspects of India's road sector development and the trajectory of the same in the coming years.The government in the last one decade led by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has given a massive push to the development of the road sector. According to NHAI, the country has about 63 lakh km of road network, of which 1.46 lakh km are national highways on which 50 per cent of India's traffic is transported. The national highways have seen a growth of 60 per cent from 91,287 km since 2014 and the momentum continues.The summit will focus on incorporating the best of technologies and processes in the sector, which can enable timely execution of projects and bring about efficient implementation.Advanced technologies in toll collection, use of building information modeling, virtual or digital twins, advanced materials, robotics, automation and use of artificial intelligence are at the doorsteps of road sector, but how much of a differentiator or game changer they can be, will be deliberated at the summit's panel discussion amongst experts and stakeholders.Assessing the feasibility of varied financing modes currently available to the sector such as Infrastructure Investment Trust (InvITs) , monetisation through Toll-Operate-Transfer (ToT) will be deliberated upon. Revival of Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) Model , which remains crucial for efficient roads and highways development, will also be explored.Digitised enablement of road construction, sustainable practices as well as adoption of Intelligent Traffic System will also be on the agenda at the summit.The summit is being supported by industry partners Arcadis, Welspun Enterprises, Bosch, Autodesk, Xpedeon, CP Plus, ACE (Action Construction Equipment), Khaitan & Co, Equirus Raghnall, JSA, Dextra, RETAS.Government associations include Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, NAREDCO, CSIR-Central Road Research Institute, Construction Industry Development Council, National Rural Infrastructure Development Agency Community partners include International Road Federation (India Chapter), Construction Federation of India, National Highways Builders Federation.
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