The global cost of disasters is growing: The economic burden of disasters is intensifying. While the direct costs of disasters averaged $70–80 billion a year between 1970 and 2000, between 2001 and 2020 these annual costs grew significantly to $180–200 billion. But the real cost is far higher. Disaster costs …
Non-motorised transport (NMT) offers basic mobility, affordable transport, access to public transport, and health benefits. Improving the convenience, comfort, and safety of walking and cycling reduces the demand for travel by personal motor vehicles, helping to alleviate the critical traffic challenges facing many cities. Despite a high level of reliance …
Cycle Tracks, Walkways, BRTs Among Decongestion Measures For Delhi. Government agencies have lined up a slew of initiatives to decongest Delhi, including construction of cycle tracks covering over 200 km, walkways, five major rapid bus corridors, more number of buses for public transport and construction and improvement of about two …
The current literature in the field of cycle lanes has often shown contradictory evidence as to the benefits and risks of cycle lanes and previous work has specifically shown that on higher speed roads, drivers may pass closer to a cyclist when a cycle lane is present. Utilising an instrumented …
Most research studies seeking to understand walking and cycling behaviours have used cross-sectional data to explain inter-individual differences at a particular point in time. Investigations of individual walking and cycling over time are limited, despite the fact that insights on this could be valuable for informing policies to support life-long …
The Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG) has proposed a plan to construct an 8-km dedicated cycle track in the city. The track will begin at the HUDA City Centre Metro station and run along the one-way road through Galleria Market all the way to Golf Course Road. The civic body …
Pune: In a letter to the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), city’s police and traffic departments, Pedestrians First, a city-based organisation working for safe roads, suggested that one lane on Fergusson College Road be made vehicle-free in the evening on weekends. In its proposal, the organisation stated that one lane on …
The majority of short distance travel in North America is completed by single occupancy vehicles. Substituting walking and bicycling for these trips would reduce energy use and environmental pollution, while improving quality of life. Therefore, understanding influences on non-automotive travel behavior is crucial. Researchers and planners have touted specific factors …
Shifting to active modes of transport in the trip to work can achieve substantial co-benefits for health, social equity, and climate change mitigation. Previous integrated modeling of transport scenarios has assumed active transport mode share and has been unable to incorporate acknowledged system feedbacks. The researchers compared the effects of …
Jayanagar, with its bicycle-friendly streets, is well suited for promoting the use of bicycles, according to a study commissioned by the Directorate of Urban Land Transport (DULT) in 2010. The study conducted by Gubbi Labs Private Limited (GLPL) identified critical intersections, locations for signage and parking facility. The three-phase study …
A fresh notification prohibiting cycles and other forms of non-motorised transport along 174 major thoroughfares of the city has been issued by the Kolkata Police. Last year, the police had issued a similar notification banning cycles but the West Bengal government did not ratify it within the stipulated period of …
Even as there is interest among youths and professionals in city to ride bicycles, the government has drawn flak for not promoting the 'green' transport. Lack of adequate cycle tracks and encroachments on existing tracks have been a cause of concern, experts said. "Government should spread awareness about cycle tracks …
A PIL has been filed at Calcutta High Court against the ban on cycles from 174 Kolkata thoroughfares. NGOs and activists in the city have been campaigning intensely for the last few months, seeking a revoke of the restriction. The Union urban development ministry has also asked the Mamata Banerjee …
Director of Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) Sunita Narain emphasized the need for promoting bicycle as a means of transport in cities in a big way to tackle the problem of air pollution, at in the cities. "If we don't have the right to breath and walk freely then …
Chinese government in collaboration with Capital Development Authority (CDA) would construct 44 kilometres cycling track in Islamabad. Talking to APP, a spokesman of CDA said that the authority will promote recreational activities in the city and will make the city more environment-friendly by providing cycling tracks. The Chinese delegation visited …
With the increased recognition that bicycling is a sustainable transportation mode choice, there is a continued interest in understanding how the built environment affects bicyclist travel behavior. Research on the influence of small-scale built form elements, such as street characteristics, on bicyclist wayfinding is limited. wayfinding is defined as a …
Efforts to manage Canadian cities through smart growth policies emphasize the importance of integrated public transit system and bicycle-transit integration. The goal of this paper is to review the impact of planning policies that promote utilitarian cycling on the provision of bicycle facilities (pathways, bikeways and parking) in Calgary. The …
Project Will Be Scaled Up After Its Success At Kamatibaug Vadodara: Paris and Barcelona have done it. And so has New York and Boston. Now, Vadodara will be the first city of Gujarat to get a chance to use cycle as a mode of public transport. Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) …
Unchecked deforestation will have far-reaching impacts on temperature, rainfall, and monsoon cycles in regions well outside the tropics, affecting agriculture and water availability, warns a new report published by Greenpeace International. The report, titled "An Impending Storm: Impacts of deforestation on weather patterns and agriculture", is a synthesis of dozens …
GURGAON: Might is always right on the busy roads of a big city and the humble bicycle has no place in the hierarchy of vehicle bullies. Environmentalist Sunita Narain's accident on Sunday, when she was hit by a speeding car as she cycled towards Lodi Garden, was a clear illustration …
Noida: Dedicated cycle tracks in the city, part of the dream project of Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav, no longer seem to serve the purpose for which they were constructed. The tracks, which were built by cutting hundreds of trees and spending crores of Rupees of the state exchequer, …
