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July 02, 2022 18:03
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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... -
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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October 09,2021The development of high-speed, decent transportation has gained traction with the allocation of funds for projects in the holy cities of Mashhad and Qom. The government recently allocated 19...
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October 05,2021The domestic engineering and energy giant, MAPNA Group, has signed a trilateral memorandum of understanding on the development and electrification of public transportation infrastructure and fleet...
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September 24,2021The subway project of Tabriz, the provincial center of East Azarbaijan, has received 7 trillion rials ($25.4 million) in new funding in the current Iranian year (started March 21), as the...
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September 21,2021Public transportation fleet in two Iranian cities, Qom and Zanjan, are set to expand with the arrival of new buses made by domestic producers. According to Qom Mayor Seyyed Morteza Saqqaian-Nejad...
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September 19,2021Tehran Urban and Suburban Railway Company is renovating subway trains to quickly optimize the environmentally friendly mode of transportation before the likely opening of schools in October....
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September 14,2021The complete dilapidated taxi fleet in the capital city of Tehran can be renovated in 18 months, if 50 trillion rials ($181.8 million) are allocated to the project, Tehran Municipality’s deputy for...
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September 12,2021Over nine million residents in the capital city of Tehran squander an average of 31 minutes per day in traffic, amounting to 4.65 million hours per day and more than 1.5 billion hours per year, CEO...
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September 11,2021Despite initiatives by Iran's Department of Environment and anti-air pollution campaigners, the use of bicycles and related projects has failed to take off across the country. As a cheap means of...
