
Online Traffic guide
www.pttf.net/go/Managed by the Pune Traffic and Transportation Forum (PTTF), an ngo for sustainable transportation policy, the website promotes sustainable traffic practices. It asks the public to
www.pttf.net/go/Managed by the Pune Traffic and Transportation Forum (PTTF), an ngo for sustainable transportation policy, the website promotes sustainable traffic practices. It asks the public to
On the face, it seems like a fight between brothers. One brother, in this case the elder, Mukesh Ambani, managed to get control over the country s gas reserves. The other, Anil Ambani, inherited
This paper provides a comparative overview of urban transport in the world’s two most populous countries: China and India. Cities in both countries are suffering from severe and worsening transport problems:
london has decided to impose stricter standards for polluting vehicles. Under the low emission zones (lez) programme coming into effect on February 4, 2008, lorry, bus and other coaches can be
chinese cities will join the growing band of urban centres around the world to observe
Car dependency may now have become a serious problem, but in 1882, when the German car maker Karl Benz took out his rudimentary internal combustion engine for a test drive in the streets of
Delhi's parking crisis plays itself out in residential and commercial areas Delhi has more than 4 million registered vehicles as of now. Nearly 360,000 vehicles were added in 2005-06, estimating
Ashis Nandy, eminent political psychologist and sociologist, on India's urban crisis On the automobile culture Societies that developed cars have also found ways to manage and regulate them.
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My worst fears are coming true; and that has more to do with the politics of climate change than its reality. While concern on global warming reaches a crescendo, the world, instead of finding
Sustainable transport projects in general reduce GHG emissions. Such projects could thus qualify for the CDM and benefit from the sale of GHG offsets. This makes good projects economically more attractive and reduces barriers towards their successful implementation. The CDM can constitute an important additional
A SURVIVOR'S GUIDE ON WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP BRING DOWN CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS AND COMBAT GLOBAL WRMING 1. CHANGE YOUR BULBS Replace incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescent lamps (cfl)
More than 130 cities in northern Italy, including Milan and Verona, banned car traffic for several hours on the last Sunday of February. In Milan, the ban was for two consecutive Sundays.
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands are still seen as tourist havens, even after being ravaged by the tsunami in December 2004. The tourism policy of Andaman and Nicobar Island 2003 listed its objectives
EPCA has been monitoring the implementation of the CNG programme in Delhi since its inception. During this period, it has made special efforts to upgrade the safety inspection system for CNG buses and has accordingly issued directives from time to time to the concerned agencies to undertake remedial measures.
No small buses Sri Lanka's Western Province Transport Authority has decided to bid farewell to the minibuses with less than 26 seats, which are still transporting passengers on the roads of the
How often does independent research change laws as well as minds? A lobby group in Delhi is forcing the Indian government into new regulations. Apoorva Mandavilli meets its leader.
Green and white trams will soon be ferrying passengers across Paris. The reintroduction of trams is an effort to cut down the city's growing pollution and traffic congestion. Under the initial phase
no more crawling: The Sri Lankan transport ministry recently started a programme that would take action against passenger buses that are driven very slowly. Transport minister A H M Fowzie said that