Urban India’s parking woes: an overview
Vehicular congestion and insufficient parking facilities are significant emerging challenges for India’s mega and metropolitan cities, severely impairing mobility. Although curtailed by constitutional
Vehicular congestion and insufficient parking facilities are significant emerging challenges for India’s mega and metropolitan cities, severely impairing mobility. Although curtailed by constitutional
Would the frequent protests by members of the CMH Road Shops and Establishments Association prevent the traffic authorities and Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) from proceeding with pier construction works on Indiranagar's busiest road?
By Sudha Narasimhachar The entire transport system of Zrich, covering various kinds of trains, buses, trams, boats, cable cars, gondolas, ice flyers in the Alps, comes under one management. Today talk about chaotic traffic in Bangalore, especially after the inauguration of the international airport, is common. Of course, one of the main features of a good metro is an efficient local transport system. I recently got to experience the excellent transport system at Z
The largest city of Pakistan is the most neglected mega-city in the world, in terms of urban public transport systems and the basic reason for this is the government's apathetic attitude towards the revival and expansion of the surface rail-based urban transport public system, the Karachi Circular Railway (KCR).
WEEKEND RUMINATIONS T N Ninan / New Delhi August 02, 2008, 5:02 IST
Is urban public transport subsidised more than its private counterpart? Through a case study of urban transport in Pune, this article demonstrates that car and two-wheeler users receive larger subsidies than bus users when all costs imposed by transport modes are considered.
This report stresses the importance of mobility for development, defining it in a broader framework in connection with related concepts such as Accessibility and sustainability. Taking Bangalore for its case study, the report clarifies the socio-economic trends and current plans for land use and transport
This paper by Prayas Energy Group exposes the hidden subsidies enjoyed by users of cars and two wheelers, thus marginalizing the needier sections. It uses a case study of urban transport in Pune to show that a bus user is much less subsidized than a car or a two-wheeler user.
Delhi is a city so crazy about cars that it puts some 270,000 new ones on its streets each year. In Lajpat Nagar you will find hardcore worshippers of combustion engines. There are families that own two and three cars with a scooter and a motorcycle thrown in for good measure. It is here that the Reva, the world's most popular electric car, has finally made a full-fledged debut in its flamboyant colours. The Reva has at least a thousand takers in London and is getting noticed and picked up in other environmentally conscious cities of Europe where it has been test marketed.
The objectives of this study were: to raise awareness of the importance of mobility as a driver for economic development in Bangalore; to examine opportunities to narrow the mobility
Anna Nagar Western Extension and Mogappair are densely populated areas that are out of the Metro project's Corridor 2 loop. Residents want the route reworked to include their areas as well G Saravanan Chennai CORRIDOR 1 FROM Washermanpet to Airport via Esplanade, Central, Egmore, Anna Salai and Guindy. The corridor is partly elevated and partly underground. Underground portion for about 13.5 km. The track emerges after Saidapet station and terminates in front of the Airport.