Tag: mass transport
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Panel Discussion Reinventing Public Transport
The panel discussion on ‘Reinventing Public Transport’ at Smart Mobility 2018 in Mumbai focussed on buses and its potential to cater as a main mode of transport to work as first & last mile connectivity for major mass transport infrastructure like railways & metros. The panellists were Prof HM Shivanand Swamy, Executive Director, Centre for…
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150 new buses in Surat
Surat Municipal Corporation will add around 150 buses to its existing fleet of city and BRTS buses by early 2019. With this the fleet size will increase to over 560. The civic body is planning to run more than 650 buses in the City on a daily basis with target of achieving ridership of 3.5–…
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Integrated Road Transport body for Bengaluru
The Integrated Road Transport Authority to be operational next year in Bengaluru will bring different modes of urban mobility services under one umbrella. The government has prepared a draft bill and sought suggestions from stakeholders. As per the bill, IRTA is expected to address issues like lack of single-ticketing system, poor coordination among multiple agencies,…
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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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‘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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Impact Assessment Methodology for a Connected ITS Corridor
[box type=”shadow” ] Evaluating the impact of cooperative ITS (C-ITS) presents unique challenges beyond the already complex world of ITS impact evaluation, say Alan Stevens, Jean Hopkin and Simon Ball of Transport Research Laboratory, UK. They give a step by step methodology of the entire impact assessment process. [/box] Cooperative ITS (C-ITS) is a subset…
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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.…
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Outer Delhi set to get a smart city
The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has come up with a plan to turn a 24,000 hectare area in Najafgarh, Kanjhawala and Narela into an integrated Smart City. The Smart City will have dedicated bicycle lanes, high frequency mass transport, 24×7 water and power to all households, no waterlogging, 100% internet coverage, 30 minutes emergency medical…
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Hyderabad Metro Bringing in Lifestyle Changes
Hyderabad Metro Rail, a PPP project involving the Government of Telangana and L&T Metro Rail (Hyderabad) Limited (LTMRHL) is poised to give Hyderabad, India’s IT and pharmaceutical powerhouse, a people-friendly, green, seamlessly connected intermodal mass transit system. The project, one of the world’s largest PPP Metro project, aims to bring lifestyle changes in Hyderabad and…
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“We are not building a metro:We are redefining Hyderabad”
As is known, Hyderabd Metro once completed will be one of the best mass rapid transport projects in the world, especially built on the PPP model. There are two hundred mass transit systems in the world and out of these, less than half a dozen are built on this model. Mostly, these are government funded…