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Air 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…

Road 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…

The 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…

The 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…

A 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.

High 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…

The 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…

An 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%…

Tehran’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…

Domestic companies have developed 18 applications and services to help ease public transportation problems.

Composer and theorist Peyman Soltani was appointed as the ambassador to the newly established non-profit organization Center for Music Diplomacy. The NGO, founded in January, is co-hosted in…

An 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,…

Tehran 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…

Financial 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…

Urban officials have taken intermittent measures in recent years for improving urban infrastructure and transportation services to meet the needs of people with disabilities.

Providing 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…

The 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. 

In 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…

As 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. 

Three 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…

In an effort to ease mobility in the capital city, 110 new buses have been added to Tehran’s public transportation fleet.

The 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…

The 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…

Covid-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…

Taxi Management and Supervision Organization, affiliated to Tehran Municipality, has started paying financial aid to cab drivers for repairs and installation of electronic payment…