Car free smog free!
As cars keep off the street following a French call for European car free day, air quality in some cities shows improvement
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Action taken by the Union government
A notification was issued for emission standards for the year 2000. An evaluation
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Industry & Environment
SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT ON WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY<br> Nearly three decades after the world woke up to issues pertaining to protection of the environment, precious little has been done by world leaders to put environment and peoplefirst. In developed cou
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Dense traffic causes social alienation
residing in an area with heavy traffic may not only affect health but also social behaviour. According to a new study, Traffic's Human Toll, heavy traffic on streets in the vicinity severely
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Car ban on holy day
In a bid to combat air pollution, authorities in Italy have banned the use of cars on Sundays
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Green Paper proposals
• A new system of trunk road planning to avoid planning delays • New power to local authorities to manage traffic demand in their areas and reduce vehicular pollution •
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Pedal power downplayed
A bicycle costs more, a scooter costs less. Thanks to the finance minister
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The rating game
The Green Rating Project (GRP) of the Centre for Science and Environment was designed to track environmental performance in key industries in India. It monitors the impact of industrial growth on
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Pedaling ahead
There are an estimated one million cycle rickshaws plying on the roads of India. Besides being environ mentally-friendly, they provide employment to about 700,000 people, not to mention the millions
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Dialogue of the Deaf
<p>One of the major events organized by the Ministry of Urban Development is the Urban Mobility Conference held in New Delhi in the first week of December each year. The theme of the latest conference held on 3rd, 4th and 5th of December 2010 at the Grand Hotel, New Delhi was “Sustainable Urban Transport: Accessibility and Inclusive Cities”.
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Spoke in the wheel
Poll move hits rickshaw pullers
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Many plans, no vision
DELHI: Bus route rationalisation; bus priority lanes; introduction of high capacity buses; electric trolley buses; trams for the walled city; feeder bus service for the metro; increasing parking
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A Public Effort
Where the government has failed miserably in providing quality service to the people, some ngos have set an example on how urban waste can be managed. Vatavaran in Delhi and Exnora in Chennai are two organisations, which have set at rest doubts on the dif
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ROHTAK
For Harish Chandra, who retired as professor from the Maharishi Dayanand University in the town of Rohtak, Haryana, things have changed a lot since the dayshe used to travel by horse-driven tongas to
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Air Pollution in the Month of October is Getting Worse - is Delhi Ready?
<div>For the city of Delhi, an air quality index methodology was proposed and applied for six criteria pollutants - PM10, PM2.5, CO, NOx, SO2, and Ozone and analyzed for trends in the past three years of data. The AQI is reported on a scale of 0 to 500 and subdivided into six colored bins for easy understanding of the common person and the media.
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People who own cars make life unpleasant
<font class='UCASE'>John Whitelegg</font> of the School of Built Environment at Liverpool s John Moores University spoke to <font class='UCASE'>Anish Gupta </font> about Calcutta s transport problems and about why its salvation lies in improving the tra
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Cycles of change
TO BEGIN with a literary conceit: by the time the 'bicycle' came into existence and took 5 decades to establish itself in the lexicon of the late 20th century fashion of urban nomadism, history had
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Green drive
A new cycle rickshaw, that is easier to drive, has hit the roads of Agra. A zero emission vehicle at last
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Off limits
Paris set to ban SUVs
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A UK review on low carbon cars
The uk's review of technologies and fuels for reducing carbon emissions by vehicles is complete. Chairperson of the review Julia King, while discussing the study in Mumbai recently, claimed that