Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Gaurav Sharma Vs Govt. of NCT of Delhi & Others dated 03/07/2023. The National Green Tribunal (NGT), July 3, 2023 said that all government hospitals in India should have an environment management plan to tackle all sources of pollution in …
Several city governments are framing parking policy and rules to reduce parking pressure and congestion on roads and public spaces to make cities more livable. Among them Delhi, Chandigarh, Pune, Hyderabad and Bengaluru have taken the lead. Their challenge is to design parking rules that balance the need to provide …
Cities are a magnet for people as centres for jobs, economic activity and innovation, and urban mobility systems lie at the very heart of what makes cities attractive and viable. However, urban transport is facing an urgent set of challenges as a number of social, technological, economic, environmental and political …
The draft parking rules for Delhi, which were opened for feedback, stress on the need to decongest Delhi roads by giving incentives for parking in multi-level parking lots. Close to 1,400 cars are added to Delhi roads each day, while there are only close to 250 surface parking lots in …
Beijing's population shrank in 2017－the first time in 17 years－as the result of nonessential functions being relocated outside the city and better urban management, authorities said on Friday. The capital had 21.7 million permanent residents by the end of last year, 22,000 less than in 2016, a 0.1 percent fall …
Air quality in the Delhi National Capital Region (NCR) has been a matter of concern. In order to address air pollution, the high level task force set up under the Chairmanship of Principal Secretary to PM has submitted this action plan and welcomes suggestions from experts and citizens to make …
AfDB Project Manager, Jumbe Katala, said in Dar es Salaam yesterday that the 19.3-kilometre project on the Kilwa Road corridor and part of Kawawa road is expected to reduce congestion during peak hours, with travel time for public transport users reduced to between 15 and 20 minutes, from the current …
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has announced that the city’s Ultra-Low Emission Zone will begin in central London from the 8th of April, 2019, and will reduce lethal air pollution and reduce harmful emissions from up to 60,000 vehicles daily. The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, announced last week the latest …
Nxumalo Ndlovu used to catch a bus from his home in Alexandra township to his job in Sandton, a posh city business district. But with heavy traffic slowing down the 5-kilometre commute he's found a new way to work: A pioneering township bike rental scheme. "I use the bike because …
As the festival of Diwali and winter season draw near, Delhi-NCR is gearing up to meet the severe air quality challenge that it faces every year around this time. A Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) has been notified and is already in place – and October 17, 2017 is the …
As the festival of Diwali and winter season draw near, Delhi-NCR is gearing up to meet the severe air quality challenge that it faces every year around this time. A Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) has been notified and is already in place – and October 17, 2017 is the …
Exposure to fine particles is measured using metrics such as mass concentration (MC), number concentration (NC) and surface area concentration (SAC). This study aims to find correlation between the three metrics in outdoor environments of a city – city periphery, city centre and on-road. Simultaneous real-time mass, number and surface …
The Ministry of Transportation says the National Council on Transportation has approved the commencement of a `bicycle riding’ project, as a means of transportation in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT. The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, told journalists at the end of the National Council on Transportation meeting on Monday …
A R674m Sandton public transport loop, which apparently created 260 000 employment opportunities, was launched by City of Johannesburg Mayor Herman Mashaba at the Sandton Gautrain station on Tuesday. Mashaba said the loop - which the city will pilot from September 18 and until December - will provide efficient movement …
There have been several traffic management measures taken in Delhi, the odd-eve traffic experiment conducted in year 2016 was first of its kind. CPCB took it as an opportunity to explore if there was any significant reduction in ambient noise levels due to restrictions in number plates. In urban context …
This paper reviews the effectiveness of traffic management strategies (TMS) for mitigating emissions, ambient concentrations, human exposure, and health effects of traffic-related air pollution in urban areas. The objective is to summarize the evidence base for a range of moderate-scale strategies broadly relevant to municipal and regional government decision-making.
Volume of traffic has shot up with over 10 million vehicles on the road while average speed has plunged Traffic on Delhi’s arterial roads has become slower than ever, the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has found. Not just this, the congestion and consequent pollution is also getting worse. …
For daily commuters in Delhi, what has been the experience is now being borne by hard statistics. Centre for Science and Environment’s (CSE) new assessment of travel time and traffic speed in Delhi shows the city is in a grip of a worsening congestion and pollution crisis. A simple exercise …
Centre for Science and Environment has carried out this simple and indicative exercise to assess the impact of congestion on travel time and traffic speed on Delhi’s major arterial roads which have been specially designed to give priority and primacy to improve speed of vehicular movement. This assessment has used …
Vietnam's capital, Hanoi, approved a plan on Tuesday to ban the motorcycles that swarm its streets by 2030 in an attempt to reduce traffic jams and pollution, the city's People Committee said on its website. Authorities first considered banning the notorious hordes of bikes in the capital last year over …
LUSAKA Province Minister Japhen Mwakalombe says Cabinet has approved a K247 million master plan for infrastructure development to decongest the capital city. And Mr Mwakalombe has described proposals by some sections of society that the capital city should be relocated from Lusaka to another town as baseless. The minister, who …
