Judgment of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Pramod Tyagi Vs State of NCT of Delhi & Others dated 21/03/3035. A proposal was initiated by State of National Capital Territory of Delhi, Department of Transport to start a Driving Training Institution at Mukundpur and permission was also granted. …
Reacts To Govt's Delay Claim Parking or driving on a dedicated bus lane will now get you a challan with lieutenant governor Najeeb Jung finally okaying the Delhi government's proposal on Monday . All other vehicles, except those for goods, will be penalised for plying on these dedicated lanes. In …
Karnataka Transport Minister Ramalinga Reddy rode on a battery-driven bicycle on Sunday here to promote greater use of electric vehicles and mark the World Environment Day. "Electric vehicles are future of road transport as they are economical, energy eco-friendly and energy efficient. Technologies have to be developed to make them …
A high-powered committee on 'Decongestion of Traffic in Delhi' constituted by Minister of Urban Development M. Venkaiah Naidu has recommended a better use of existing road space, multi-model integration, better traffic management, paradigm shift from car-centric to people-centric planning for more use of public transport and saying 'no' to more …
Slew of measures favoured by the committee include introduction of congestion tax While the Delhi Government has scrapped the controversial BRT, a central panel has recommended that more such corridors should be set up and 6,000 buses procured for public transport in interventions worth Rs 20,000 crore for traffic decongestion …
The international sustainable transport community began 2016 with strong momentum stemming from two major United Nations (UN) agreements in 2015: the Paris Agreement for preventing catastrophic climate change and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which set the global development agenda to 2030. To help ensure that these frameworks and agreements …
The international sustainable transport community began 2016 with strong momentum stemming from two major United Nations (UN) agreements in 2015: the Paris Agreement for preventing catastrophic climate change and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which set the global development agenda to 2030. To help ensure that these frameworks and agreements …
The government today formalised an agreement with World Bank arm IBRD for Global Environmental Facility ( GEF ) grant of $9.2 million for an efficient and sustainable bus service project in four cities, including Bhopal and Chandigarh. "The total programme cost is $113 million, with $9.2 million as grant from …
The annual Tracking Clean Energy Progress (TCEP) report highlights the development and deployment of key clean energy technologies year on year. An excerpt of the publication Energy Technology Perspectives (ETP), which lays out pathways towards a sustainable energy system in 2050, this comprehensive overview tracks the evolution of select technologies …
The move would also save money for the corporation as it gets a rebate of Rs five per litre of biofuel. To cut down the emission of greenhouse gases, the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) will roll out buses running on biodiesel from June 5 (world environment day). The …
Electric Vehicles (EVs), primarily Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) and Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs), have the capacity to increase energy efficiency, diversify transport energy carriers, and reduce their carbon intensity, supporting the integration of variable renewable energy in the power generation mix and transferring to the transport sector GHG emissions …
Beijing has preliminarily worked out policies on congestion charge for vehicles, reported National Business Daily on Friday. Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau and Beijing Municipal Commission of Transport confirmed that research was conducted to test the policies on Thursday. The policy has been formulated on a base of the similar …
BENGALURU: Bangalore Municipal Transport Corporation (BMTC), after various attempts has finally launched facilities that assist it to check pilferage, provide commuters with real time information with regard to movement and timing of buses while enabling BMTC to make its operations efficient. Launching Intelligent Transport System (ITS), Chief Minister Siddaramaiah is …
Global road safety body IRF has urged India to become a signatory to the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic (1968) and be on par with international standards in this area. In a letter to Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari, IRF said there is a pressing need for India …
Air pollution is the leading environmental killer in the world, with more than seven million people dying from air-pollution-related causes in 2012 alone, a new UN report has revealed. Some three billion people, most of whom are in Africa, still use solid organic fuels to cook and heat their homes, …
The concept vehicle is designed to float above the clogged-up streets of some of the country’s biggest cities A Beijing company has unveiled spectacularly futuristic designs for a pollution-busting, elevated bus capable of gliding over the nightmarish mega-jams for which urban China has become notorious. Plans for the so-called Transit …
This study investigates consumer incentives for electric vehicles (EVs), including plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and battery electric vehicles (BEVs), in the five largest EV markets in Europe: Germany, the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, and Norway. These markets together account for more than 80% of all European EV registrations …
The Metro of Santiago, Chile, will be the first public transport system to run mostly on solar energy, after a new agreement signed with Total and SunPower this week. According to an announcement from US solar manufacturer SunPower, in cooperation with Total, a global integrated energy producer and provider, the …
Transport Research Wing (TRW) of the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways being the nodal agency for providing information/data on various aspects of road and road transport sector brings out every year report on `Road Accidents in India". The present issue Road Accidents in India, 2015 provides information on various …
SHIMLA: To ensure the plying of echo-friendly electric buses, especially between Manali and Rohtang pass, state government has floated the tenders to buy 25 electric buses. Once these buses are added in the fleet, 50 more electric buses would be purchased by the state transport department. On the issue of …
The European Union’s 2030 climate and energy framework requires the transport, building and agriculture sectors to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 30 percent below a 2005 baseline by 2030. This study demonstrates that meeting that goal depends on deploying a combination of new transport policy measures that include mandatory carbon …
