Category: Best Stories
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Smart Cities
India’s Journey of Urban Transformation[box type=”shadow” ] While a momentum for Smart City is achieved, the same needs to be accelerated through specific and continuous interventions at national regional and local levels from policy to performance management to take this journey forward and set the benchmark for rest of the cities to get started writes Venkata Chunduru, Director, IBI…
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How do we tackle congestion?
A case for ITMS platforms presented by Dr Rajesh Krishnan, CEO, ITS Planners and Engineers Pvt Ltd Our Smart Cities programme is now nearly four years old. A number of cities have already implemented ITS systems or are in the process of doing so at the cost of taxpayers’ money. It is in public interest…
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Traffic jams, pollution, road crashes: Can technology end the woes of urban transport?
Urbanization and rising incomes have been driving rapid motorization across Asia, Africa, and Latin America. While cities are currently home to 50% of the global population, that proportion is expected to increase to 70% by 2050. At the same time, business-as-usual trends suggest we could see an additional one billon cars by 2050, most of…
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Bending the Curve
[box type=”shadow” ]Tanushri Gupte, Manager, Urban Transport and Road Safety – India, World Resources Institute talks about challenges and opportunities to reduce road deaths in Mumbai[/box] On average, two people die on Mumbai’s roads owing to traffic crashes every day. The city ranks seventh in the country in terms of absolute numbers of road traffic…
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CHENNAI SMART CITY: Integrating multiple projects
[box type=”shadow” ] In spite of several road blocks, Chennai Smart City projects have taken off with focus on Parking Management, ITMS and Non- Motorised Transport says Raj Cherubal, Chief Executive Officer, Chennai Smart City Limited [/box] What are the main components of Chennai Smart City project? Chennai Smart City Limited (CSCL) and Greater…
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e-Challan for Better Traffic Management System
[box type=”shadow” ]Handling city traffic, especially during peak hours, is a universal concern for global mega cities. TrafficInfraTech speaks to city traffic personnel to understand how they are working towards evidence based enforcement to reduce the police-violator interface[/box] World-over Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) are undergoing changes as their need, use and effectiveness are still finding…
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How cities can learn from the past
[box type=”shadow” ]Mark Watts, Executive Director, C40 urges city transport planners and politicians to get ahead of the game and start mapping out new rules for driverless roads[/box] For more than a decade, C40 has been working with cities to develop and share policies and practices that help address climate change. We know that technological…
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Women Safety & Public Transportation Ecosystem
Public transportation without safety measures like vehicle tracking devices and emergency response system in public transport are creating nightmare for women passengers to travel. A further delay in implementing such measures will only aggravate the current situation of public transport in India. On 28th November 2016, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH), Govt. of…
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Delhi Nullahs
Deprioritizing the automobile and restoring the nullahs as a major interface of the cityMorphogenesis presents the hidden opportunity that lies within Delhi by establishing a green and sustainable network as an alternative and democratic source of engagement within the city of Delhi. In some sense, this exercise has the potential to turn the whole city inside out The emergence of the nullahs (watercourse) initiative stemmed from the…