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April 24,2023Air Quality Index was “good” on only four days in the fiscal 2022-23 (ended March 20, 2023), charts published by Tehran Air Quality Control Company’s website, Airnow.tehran.ir, show. The company... -
February 01,2023Road accidents decreased noticeably in fiscal 2021-22 compared to the previous year, the minster of industries said. “There is some progress regarding road casualties, but we are far from the...
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January 21,2023The National Organization of Educational Testing held the first round of the formerly annual university entrance exam, known as Konkour, on Thursday and Friday in a bid to give pupils a fairer...
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January 01,2023The transportation network is the main source of air pollution in Iranian metropolises, because of the lack of electric vehicles, high fuel consumption of nonstandard vehicles and the widespread...
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October 17,2022A large number of buses, minibuses and vans in Iran’s public transportation fleet are worn-out, but the bodies in charge have failed to revamp this fleet. The process of modernization has been...
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August 02,2022High production costs and recession in the domestic market have led to the closure of several Iranian bicycle factories. Experts believe that Iranian manufacturers could produce high quality...
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July 11,2022An annual average of 43% of highway fatalities in Tehran involve pedestrians, according to an expert on accidents. “In the last four months, 36% of accidents involved pedestrians, 46% motorcycles...
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July 11,2022The government bought more than 4 million tons of wheat worth 480 trillion rials (over $1.5 billion) from local farmers from the beginning of the harvest season on March 24 to June 30, which shows...
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July 02,2022Tehran’s worn-out bus fleet will be replaced by new vehicles, increasing the total number of buses in this metropolis to 5,000. Tehran’s Mayor Alireza Zakani has announced that in the current...
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May 22,2022Domestic companies have developed 18 applications and services to help ease public transportation problems. While public transportation is time-consuming and inconvenient because of crowding, its...
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February 21,2022Composer and theorist Peyman Soltani was appointed as the ambassador to the newly established non-profit organization Center for Music Diplomacy.
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January 26,2022An electronic police scheme has been launched in the country to monitor accidents after the Islamic Republic of Iran Police, aka NAJA, signed an agreement with the Central Insurance of Iran,...
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December 20,2021Tehran Municipality will receive 8.3 trillion rials ($27.6 million) in the next fiscal year (starting March 2022) for streamlining the metropolis's public transportation, which is insufficient for...
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December 18,2021Financial constraints and US sanctions have beleaguered Iranian urban planners in recent years, such that attempts to renew the public transportation fleet became an uphill task. However, state-...
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December 15,2021Urban officials have taken intermittent measures in recent years for improving urban infrastructure and transportation services to meet the needs of people with disabilities. However, “the...
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December 04,2021Providing decent public transportation services to Tehran’s satellite cities has long been a concern of urban managers, as the population in these cities is growing steadily. Urban officials have...
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November 27,2021The subway project of Karaj, the provincial center of Alborz, has stalled over lack of funds and mismanagement, as progress faltered interminably since its inception in 2006. The network was...
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November 24,2021In order to upgrade Iran's aging bus fleet, the government is considering swapping oil for 3,600 new buses, a deputy interior minister said. Mehdi Jamalinejad added that due to rising air...
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November 22,2021As the pandemic-related remote working rules are being revoked gradually in Tehran, private vehicles swarm the city's streets and the specter of heavy traffic and air pollution returns. According...
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November 15,2021Three stations will come on stream in the under-construction Line 7 of Tehran Metro by the end of the current fiscal year (March 2022), the head of Tehran Metro Company said. According to Ali Emam...
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November 13,2021In an effort to ease mobility in the capital city, 110 new buses have been added to Tehran’s public transportation fleet. According to Mojtaba Shafiei, the deputy head of Transportation and ...
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November 03,2021The domestic engineering and energy giant, MAPNA Group, has signed a memorandum of understanding for the project to extend the capital’s subway to the working district of Eslamshahr in the capital’...
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October 25,2021The expansion of Tehran’s subway network has become the core part of the capital's mobility plan and more people are discovering it as a cost-effective, traffic-free mode of transportation....
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October 16,2021Covid-19 concerns in public vehicles, decrepit transport fleet and increasing air pollution in Tehran have made it necessary to upgrade and expand the city's public transportation fleet. In a...
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October 11,2021Taxi Management and Supervision Organization, affiliated to Tehran Municipality, has started paying financial aid to cab drivers for repairs and installation of electronic payment system....
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