Licensing system is back for rickshaws
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi "reintroduced" the licensing system for cycle-rickshaws, thus reversing its existing "licensefree" policy that was introduced in 2001 on the direction of the Prime
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Securing safe roads: the politics of change
An estimated 1.25 million people are killed and a staggering 50 million are injured in traffic collisions each year. Yet, road safety remains a remarkably low political priority in cities around the world.
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Share the road programme annual report 2018
The mobility needs of people who walk and cycle – often the majority of citizens in a city – continue to be overlooked. Even though the benefits of investing in pedestrians and cyclists can save lives,
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An alternative to car culture? www.worldcarfree.net Almost all of us have, at some point, rued our slavish dependence on cars. But the exasperation has always been fleeting. Most of us bear
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CSE welcomes Delhi governments move to make diesel cars dearer
<p>CSE strongly supports the bold decision of the Delhi government to increase the tax on diesel-run vehicles by 25 per cent at the time of registration, appreciates waiving off the VAT on bicycles, and calls for other states to follow the capital city's example.</p>
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Rickshaws only in residential areas
Cycle Rickshaws may soon be off Delhi's major roads as city planners are for restricting the non-motorised transport system to residential areas only. Planners are also proposing to construct a fully
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Multidecadal variability of the continental precipitation annual amplitude driven by AMO and ENSO
<p>As the water vapor content in the atmosphere scales with temperature, a warmer world is expected to feature an intensification of the hydrological cycle. Work to date has mainly focused on mean precipitation
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32000 cycle rickshaw, handcart pullers insured
The Urban Administration and Development Department has so far insured more than 32 thousand cycle rickshaw and handcart pullers under the Chief Minister's Cycle Rickshaw and Handcart Pullers' Welfare Scheme. The insured persons include only those to whom the urban bodies have issued identity cards after survey.
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Green technology choices: the environmental and resource implications of low-carbon technologies
This report, the first international assessment of this type, investigates the life-cycle environmental and natural resource implications of large-scale deployment of energy efficiency technologies. The
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Police opinion on plying of cycle-rickshaws irks Court
They will come in the way of efforts to make Delhi a world-class city: Police Old World Charm: The good old cycle-rickshaw, the plying of which was opposed by the Delhi police in an affidavit filed in the Delhi High Court, has drawn censure from the Bench.
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Environmental assessment of passenger transportation should include infrastructure and supply chains
To appropriately mitigate environmental impacts from transportation, it is necessary for decision makers to consider the life-cycle energy use and emissions. Most current decision-making relies on analysis at the tailpipe, ignoring vehicle production, infrastructure provision, and fuel production required for support. We present results of a comprehensive
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Cycle to school, cut down on emission
In continuation of the pollution awareness programmes being organised by the Transport Department, another Bicycle eco-rally was held at Malleswaram grounds on Wednesday.
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EPCA Report - Report on priority measures to reduce air pollution and protect public health
<p>EPCA Report - Report on priority measures to reduce air pollution and protect public health in the matter of W.P. (C) No.13029 of 1985; M.C. Mehta v/s UOI & others. The report states that Delhi was able to arrest and lower air pollution with its first phase of action directed by the Hon’ble Supreme Court. But Delhi could not sustain these gains and air pollution levels are rising again. Growing pollution especially from vehicles and delayed action have enhanced public health risk.</p>
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Strengthening Preparedness for COVID-19 in Cities and Urban Settings
<p>This document is to support local authorities, leaders and policy-makers in cities and other urban settlements in identifying effective approaches and implementing recommended actions that enhance the
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30-sec signal traps BRT commuters in nightmare
Traffic From Nehru Place At Chirag Dilli Right Turn Heavy But Signal Shortest New Delhi: The right turn from Nehru Place towards Moolchand at Chirag Dilli, into the BRT corridor, has become an ordeal
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Carbon footprint of marine fisheries: life cycle analysis from Visakhapatnam
<p>The contribution of marine fisheries in Visakhapatnam at all stages of its life cycle to climate change during 2010-2012 was studied by determining its carbon footprint. Pre-harvest phase included vessel
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Supreme Court admits EPCA report on priority measures to control air pollution
<p>Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has welcomed today’s Supreme Court decision on checking air pollution in the NCR. The Court today has admitted the report from the Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority (EPCA) on ‘Priority measures to reduce air pollution and protect public health’ as an interlocutory application (IA).</p>
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Efficiency technology and cost assessment for U.S. 2025–2030 light-duty vehicles
Analyzes emerging vehicle-efficiency technologies with respect to cost and capacity to lower carbon emissions from passenger cars and light-duty trucks in the 2025–2030 time frame. The paper builds on
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Better growth, better cities: rethinking and redirecting urbanisation in Africa
This report documents a wide range of projects, programmes and plans currently being pursued by African cities as part of a new mode of low-carbon urbanism that is simultaneously helping to realise virtuous
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China shuns green vehicle
The Chinese fettish for bicycles is ending. While the country's new middle class already prefers cars, a recent government move also indicated the same preference. It cancelled the bicycle