Road safety annual report 2023
The Road Safety Annual Report 2023 provides an overview of road safety performance for the 43 countries participating in the International Transport Forum’s permanent working group on road safety, known
The Road Safety Annual Report 2023 provides an overview of road safety performance for the 43 countries participating in the International Transport Forum’s permanent working group on road safety, known
In this paper, 'Climate Change: An Opportunity for Sustainable Development', the Author examines the various aspects of climate change and Delhi Metro's comparative advantage in being able to address them. He brings out that if left unabated, climate change would most certainly reverse the hard-earned development gains; and the poorest were likely to suffer the earliest and the most.
With the economic growth and rapid urbanization there has been a sharp increase in urban transport requirements. The author, who has considerable experience in transport infrastructure, brings out that one of the options is optimisation of the right way of roads with the objective of maximizing passenger trips instead of vehicle trips.
Congestion is a problem in America
KOCHI: With the Planning Commission giving the green signal to the Kochi Metro Rail project, the ball is now in the court of the State Government. From land acquisition to augmentation of existing infrastructure, the State Government has to complete a lot of facilitation work before starting the construction.
Gurgaon: Bus services in Gurgaon have always left much to be desired. For the state government too, it has been an issue of serious concern with plans and proposals to introduce new buses and improve transport facilities in the city being made frequently. Now, the roadways department has announced that a fleet of 62 inter-city luxury buses and 200 city buses will ply on Gurgaon roads soon.
The Chandigarh Urban Complex is poised for a higher growth in coming decades. The above problems are bound to grow in magnitude unless advance actions are undertaken now. There is an urgent need for significant
This study provides detailed analysis of walking conditions in Indian cities. The analysis indicates that walkability is overlooked and undervalued in transport planning, and that improved walkability is justified for equity and efficiency sake. It provides specific recommendations for improving walking conditions to address a variety of planning objectives.
In this work, a statistical model is developed to predict the vehicle population for the future years. Vehicle population data is collected for the past ten years and simple moving averages method is chosen to use it with the data of vehicle population. Simple moving averages method is explained in detail along with its application to predict the vehicle population for the future years.
Heather Allen looks at issues related to sustainable development at the International Association of Public Transport, Brussels. Pradip Saha caught up with her on issues topical to her work.
KOCHI: The traffic woes of Kochiites will finally be solved as the Kochi Metro Rail Project is getting ready to take off with the Planning Commission giving nod to the project.