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AGTS lines are intended to be set up in Metro Manila to augment or serve as a "feeder" to the existing Manila Metro Rail Transit System. [1] A prototype system was developed by the DOST with the University of the Philippines Diliman as a means to demonstrate AGT technology as an efficient mode of transport for the country. [1]
The Department of Public Works and Highways (Filipino: Kagawaran ng mga Pagawain at Lansangang Bayan), abbreviated as DPWH, is the executive department of the Philippine government solely vested with the mandate to “be the State's engineering and construction arm” and, as such, “tasked to carry out the policy” of the State to “maintain an engineering and construction arm and ...
The University of the Philippines Diliman AGT [1] was an automated guideway transit (AGT) system constructed for technology demonstration within the campus of the University of the Philippines (UP) in Diliman, Quezon City in the Philippines. It served as a test track for the first mass transit system to be built and developed in the country by ...
The national roads in the Philippines are classified into three types by the Department of Public Works and Highways under the Philippine Highway Act of 1953 (Republic Act No. 917) and the series of memorandums issued by the department between 2009 and 2014.
Systems have been developed that detect fatigue cracking and other types of pavement distress automatically. [7] They measure the severity and frequency of alligator cracking on the road-path. One such machine is the road surface profilometer , which is mounted on a vehicle and measures the profile of the road surface while it is moving down ...
The toll system of Subic–Clark–Tarlac Expressway is a closed road system that uses cards with magnetic strips, and from March 2016, electronic toll collection, using the Easytrip system by its concessionaire, Manila North Tollways Corporation (now NLEX Corporation), is introduced, eventually integrating the toll system of the expressway ...
Radial Road 8 (R-8), informally known as the R-8 Road, is a network of roads and bridges which comprise the eighth radial road of Metro Manila in the Philippines. [1] It runs north-south through northern Metro Manila, linking the city of Manila with Quezon City, Caloocan, and Valenzuela into the northern provinces of Bulacan, Pampanga, Tarlac, Pangasinan, and La Union.
Rail transportation in the Greater Manila Area is a major part of the transportation system in Metro Manila and its surrounding areas.The railway network, collectively known as the Greater Capital Region Railway System, [3] [4] [5] consists of the Manila Light Rail Transit System (LRT), Manila Metro Rail Transit System (MRT), and Philippine National Railways lines within the region.