Category: Urban Design
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Reimagining Delhi’s Intersections
Taking cognizance of the rising tally of crashes in the City, Delhi’s Traffic Police, Transport Department and Public Works Department, supported by WRI India, reconfigured five of the city’s high-risk road intersections. This analysis by Avtar Bhalla, Program Manager, Sustainable Cities and Transport, Aashima Bhandari Senior Program Associate, Sustainable Cities and Transport and Chaitali Patil,…
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“Complete Streets” are Creating Safer, more Sustainable Cities in Brazil
Urban development in many cities around the world prioritizes making space for cars over pedestrians, cyclists or public transportation. In Brazil, this led to an average of more than 30,000 annual road crash fatalities nationwide by the turn of the century, as well as high levels of congestion and pollution. But in the last 20…
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New transport hub expands city centre of Toulouse
IG – Bjarke Ingels Group and A+ Architects unveil design for the 12,000m2 Marengo Multimodal Transport Hub in France’s fourth largest city, Toulouse. Located adjacent to the central station Gare Matabiau on the eastern border of the city, the building will expand the city center beyond the Canal du Midi and strengthen its public transport…
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How Traffic Engineering can aid better Street Design
Streets in our cities are built and maintained with a myopic view centered around ensuring a smooth carriageway for motorized vehicles, even though most people in Indian cities walk, cycle, or use public transport. Effective street design needs a holistic approach to address the needs of all road users. There is a need to rethink…
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Metro Challenges in India
World Resources Institute looks at the challenges that metro systems need to address to ensure a complete integration with the city. When compared to new cities where the metro projects integration is factored in, retrofitted projects need to adapt to different travel patterns of the city, with existing rail systems where the city transport system…
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Smart City Experiences Challenges, Benefits and Future Settings
[box type=”shadow” ] The ideas discussed on the second day of the Smart Mobility conference on ‘Driving Smart Mobility’ all had a common underlying motive, encapsulated in a catchphrase coined by one of the panellists: ‘Mobility Drives Development’ [/box] T Krishna Prasad, Director General of Police and Chairman – Road Safety Authority, Government of Telangana,…
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Public-Private collaboration for Innovative Mobility Solutions
[box type=”shadow” ] The mobility sector in India is undergoing a digital transformation. And there are opportunities to foster public-private collaboration for better bus systems in India says Shilpa Kharwal, Consultant, Cities and Transport, WRI India [/box] Public bus agencies, referred to as State Road Transpor t Undertakings (SRTUs), are investing millions in setting up…
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Creating Safer, Child-friendly Streets
An ideal child-friendly city integrates the voice, needs, priorities and rights of children in its public policies, programmes and decisions. An important aspect of such a city is to provide children with an opportunity to live in a safe, secure and clean environment, with access to green spaces says Vaibhav Kush, Project Associate- Cities &…
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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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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…