Iran Transport News
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December 05,2020The average goods and services Consumer Price Index of “transportation” in the 12-month period ending Nov. 20, which marks the end of the eighth Iranian month, increased by 63.7% compared with the... -
December 01,2020A total of 4.95 million passengers travelled via railroad during the first seven months of the current Iranian year (March 20-Sept. 21), which shows a 67.5% decline compared with the similar period...
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November 09,2020Public means of transportation is a hotbed of Covid-19 transmission, especially in major cities like Tehran, and immediate action must be taken before it gets too late, the head of Tehran City...
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October 19,2020Tehran’s ailing public transportation will soon get a boost with hundreds of new buses and minibuses joining the fleet, Tehran Municipality’s deputy director for traffic and transportation affairs...
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October 17,2020Economic constraints and Covid-19 have taken a toll on Tehran public transportation, as they push the sector to the verge of bankruptcy, the head of Tehran City Council’s Transportation Commission...
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October 12,2020With costs of infrastructure development soaring, Tehran City Council has ratified a motion allowing Tehran Municipality to raise 40 trillion rials ($133.30 million) through the issuance of...
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September 30,2020The average goods and services Consumer Price Index of transportation increased by 51.5% in the 12-month period ending Sept. 21, which marks the end of the sixth Iranian month, compared with the...
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September 26,2020Since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in Iran in February, the country’s public transportation system has incurred a massive loss of over 20 trillion rials ($68.6 million), an official with...
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September 16,2020Tehran Municipality has urged the government to pay 40 trillion rials ($148.15 million) for the renewal of public transportation in the capital by the end of the current Iranian year (March 2021...
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September 05,2020The transportation sector’s recovery from the shock of coronavirus has gathered pace in the past couple of months, a senior official with the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development said.
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August 10,2020Iranian urban managers’ struggle to upgrade public transport fleet has been delayed by the country’s sanction-induced and Covid-19 enhanced economic problems. To address the thorny issue,...
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August 08,2020The new round of traffic rule waiver in the capital city of Tehran has failed to curb the jostling crowd in the subway, contrary to expectations, Tehran Metro’s CEO said. According to Farnoush...
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July 25,2020Tehran Municipality has recently issued participatory bonds worth 15 trillion rials ($68.1 million) to help expand the capital’s public transportation system, the head of Tehran City Council’s...
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July 03,2020Deputy Minister of Roads and Urban Development Shahram Adamnejad said 35,000 billion rials ($175 million) worth of loans will be allocated to the coronavirus-hit transportation sector (air, rail,...
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June 22,2020A deal backed by the government worth 10 trillion rials ($51 million) has been signed by Tehran Municipality and Iran Khodro (IKCO) to add 230 buses and minibuses to the capital city’s public...
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May 13,2020Since the outbreak of Covid-19 in Iran in February, Tehran's public transportation system has incurred a massive loss of 1.2 trillion rials ($7 million) per month, a Tehran City Council member...
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April 29,2020The national coronavirus taskforce is planning to make wearing facemasks mandatory in public transportation, including buses and subway, a deputy health minister said.
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April 25,2020To expand Tehran’s public transportation system, 500 new buses will be added to the operating fleet by the end of May, a member of Tehran City Council said. Shahrbanou Amani added that the...
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April 22,2020Public transportation in megacities need to preserve their efficiency. To realize this goal, urban managers in Karaj, the provincial center of Alborz, and Isfahan city in Isfahan Province are...
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April 13,2020Social distancing is almost impossible in a crowded city like Tehran, unless more buses and taxis are added to the public transportation fleet, Tehran City Council chief says.
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March 17,2020Sections 2 and 3 of a 14.6-kilometer-long freeway connecting the capital city Tehran to Karaj, the capital of Alborz Province, were inaugurated on Tuesday.
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March 04,2020Public transportation fares for metro, bus, taxi and minibus will see a 25% rise in the next Iranian year (starting March 20), as per the approval of Tehran City Council on Tuesday.
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February 16,2020Mack trucks of 1967 are still rolling on Iranian roads. Transport trucks that should have been sent to the scrapyard years ago still fetch an exorbitant price. Iran Road Maintenance and...
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January 27,2020As projected in the draft budget for fiscal 2020-21, the government has earmarked 50 trillion rials ($367 million) for upgrading the bus fleet. According to Mehdi Jamalinejad, head of Iran's...
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December 28,2019Public transportation expansion projects have become a challenging task for managers in Iranian metropolises because of rising demand on the government’s budget. However, officials are making...
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