Category: Non Motorised Transport
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Sustainable Transport Saves Lives: A Case for Investing in Safety of Public Bus Fleets
Inducing a modal shift from private transport to public buses will reduce road traffic deaths in India. In cities such as Bangalore and Mumbai, the city bus agencies – Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) and Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) respectively – account for 20-32 percent of the mode share, but were involved in…
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Challenges to manage mobility as a service in a sustainable manner
Vincent Bourquin, Professor at the School of Engineering and Architecture of Fribourg Switzerland, member of University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland writes that while technology has certainly helped to provide information content directly to the smartphones of users, enriching their travel experience, it did not exactly offer the necessary degrees of freedom to address…
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iMove Project in Europe
Following recent mega-trends in the mobile and sharing economy, and thanks to the latest ITS developments, Mobility as a Service schemes are seen as the way citizens will use to move themselves and their goods in the future. Jaspal Singh, Head, UITP India writes on iMove project, funded by the European Commission within the H2020…
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‘We want to manufacture high-speed Talgo coaches in India’
[box type=”shadow” ] Talgo Trains of Spain has recently concluded three trial runs of its special trains on the Moradabad-Bareli, Mathura- Palwal and Mumbai-Delhi routes, without making any change in the Indian tracks. Subrat Nath, Director — India and Asia Pacific, Talgo takes a few questions from Vidyottama Sharma. [/box] What is the specialty of…
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Technology for improved Public Bus Transport
What is the role of technology in providing solutions to public transit bodies. The way one could define, this is providing seamless multi-modal integrated travel. We will have to talk at three-levels: Technology to improve the asset management, resource management and operation management. In an interesting and informative panel discussion held during TrafficInfraTech Expo 2016…
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Design & Construction of Tunnel between Lajpat Nagar and Hazrat Nizamuddin Stations of Phase-III
The Delhi Metro has been planned to serve Delhi and its satellite cities of Faridabad, Gurgaon, Noida and Ghaziabad in National Capital Region in India. Delhi Metro is the world’s 12th largest metro system in terms of both length and number of stations. The network consists of five regular lines and a faster Airport Express…
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Taking the Right Turn
The Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) operates a large number of bus services in Mumbai with 4000 buses plying over 365 routes covering neighbouring cities like Navi Mumbai, Thane and Mira-Bhayandar. Dr Jagdish Patil, General Manager, BEST throws light on BEST’s plan for modernization of fleet, dedicated bus lanes and Integrated Ticketing System. More…
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ELECTRIC VEHICLES An Indian Perspective
[box type=”shadow” ]The automotive industry – well over a century old – is currently experiencing three radical paradigm shifts simultaneously – the electrification of the drivetrain, the emergence of autonomous driving technologies, and a gradual consumer shift from ‘ownership’ (of cars) to ‘access’ (to mobility). The first is a technology shift from within, the second…
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Integrating Bicycles and Public Transport
Naresh Kuruba, Research Scholar, CEPT University and Shalini Sinha, Associate Professor, CEPT University assess the applicability and acceptability of Bike and Ride (B&R) facilities in case of Ahmedabad city. Public transit is not designed to provide a door-to-door connectivity unlike personalized modes of transport. Access and egress are the weakest links in public transit and…
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Urban Design Factors and the Use of Public Transport
As traffic congestion continues growing in urban areas, more and more people have realized that they should use public transport modes, such as metro, BRTS or buses, instead of private vehicles, because public transport modes are more efficient than private vehicles in terms of carrying and moving people with the same amount of road space.…