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Keynote Address
Mobility:

Thinking Short and Long

Future of Mobility is a term which many of us probably may not
understand completely. Also, how do we indicate the future: Is it one
month, ten years, 20 years or much more than that? Abhay Damle, Joint

Secretary, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways who made the
keynote address at the session on Future Mobility preferred to look at
the immediate future. He made it clear that regulations apart, future
mobility solutions would help improve road, passenger and freight safety

W we have to look at
“ hen we talk of mobility,

the entire gamut, but
then as I understand
from the various
stakeholders, I would be talking broadly The Expo had brought
about the mobility which is happening all the stakeholders
on the surface, on public roads.” relating to the road
There are two challenges-- intracity
and intercity. The kind of urban growth transport, safety and
we have been seeing is making intracity traffic management
challenges difficult to deal with. The together. All these
cities are working to solve problems players coming together
related to metro rails, road construction,
road widening, additional railway lines brings more synergy
etc. Every city will have its issues and it which transpires in to
has to find its solutions. We will work better ideas.
on hyperloop, pods, ropeways that
can complement the urban congestion
solutions.
to meet the objectives: Reducing We are now caught up with numbers.
Shared Mobility congestion on the roads to achieve Cities claim the number of electric buses
The future mobility lies in shifting a better throughput on the road and put on the roads, it could be fifty or
from personal vehicles to public reducing pollution on the road. When sixty; but problems cannot be solved
transport. The shift has already started we improve the utilisation of the assets, with these. A city of the size of Mumbai
in the last few years. However, the most we are putting lesser number of cars & or Delhi would need something like
important thing we need to consider in two-wheelers on the road, more buses, 35000-40000 buses, out of which
the next five years is how we are going more trains or metros. Though easy to atleast 15000-20000 buses must be
to use the assets smartly and efficiently say, it is very difficult to achieve. active to provide public transport on

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