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Sustainable Cities in Motion A Dialogue on Equity, Culture & Clean Mobility

The World Symposium on Sustainable Transport and Liveability at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, is designed to create a vital platform for academics, policymakers, and practitioners to come together and discuss the pressing needs of sustainable mobility. Two episodes in the WSSTL-2025 podcast series bring together distinct yet complementary voices: Professor Aruna Sivakumar, Professor, Imperial College London, and Ewout ...

Safe Passages: Enhancing Women’s Safety in Public Transport

The safety of women in public transportation is a critical concern that impacts their mobility, economic participation, and overall quality of life. Public transport is often the most affordable and accessible option for women, yet it is fraught with challenges such as harassment, inadequate infrastructure, and a lack of secure options. Despite several government initiatives aimed at enhancing women’s safety, ...

Maharashtra’s Cities Need of 24,000 New Buses

Buses

A new analysis by Institute for Transportation and Development Policy ITDP India conducted in December 2024 reveals a severe deficit of public buses in Maharashtra’s urban areas. The study highlights that the state needs at least 28,800 buses across its 44 cities to meet the mobility demands of 5.6 crore residents. Currently, the urban bus fleet stands at a mere ...

Mobility as a Service Where do we go from here?

Carol Schweiger, President, Schweiger Consulting LLC examines if the MaaS is still alive. According to her, while the “success” of MaaS is questionable, it still appears to have strong backing by the governmental entities across the world, such as the city and regional governments and public transport agencies. Carol has nearly 45 years of experience in transportation consulting and is ...

Technologies to ease bus commute

While public transport buses have long been part of India’s landscape as an inexpensive and inclusive mode of travel, it is now gathering momentum as a sustainable, eco-friendly and technology driven component of India’s urban and regional planning. The task of incorporating technology is not easy. The buses are new but mega cities house mega population and infrastructure is yet ...

Green Wheels: Transforming India’s Public Transport with Electric Buses

Electrifying fleets of buses catering to the bustling and rapidly urbanising Indian cities is critical to addressing mass transport in a greener manner. Continuing his series of articles on EV ecosystem, Preetesh Singh, Specialist, CASE and Alternate Powertrains, NRI Consulting and Solutions India Pvt Ltd looks at how unlocking the innovative features in e-buses can lead to improved EV penetration. ...

Towards Operational Efficiency with technology and more technology

State Road Transport Undertakings have a big role to play in the mobility of people – interstate and intrastate. Technologies like ITS, Telematics, Vehicle safety, Communication, Routing & Scheduling, etc are increasingly being implemented for seamless travel by SRT buses, states R R K Kishore, Director (Technical), Association of State Road Transport Undertakings.   However, the operational efficiency depends mainly ...

Use of technology for enforcement

G. Janardan, IPS, ADGP, PTRI, Madhya Pradesh Police tells Trafficinfratech that ensuring timely repairs & upgrades of infrastructure is critical to prevent road accidents.   Bhopal is among the top 10 cities in India (sixth) in terms of reported accidents. However, the number of fatal accidents is lower as compared to other big cities. The reasons for the big number ...