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 years, fatalities have started to ...
Transport is the fulcrum that can pivot women’s participation in the workforce, enable them to access opportunities and live fuller lives. However, transport systems in Asia are not always gender neutral and often place different burdens on men, women and other gender and sexual minorities writes Sonal Shah, Founder, Urban Catalysts and Executive Director, Centre for Sustainable and Equitable Cities ...
Challenge: Traffic management for a busy urban expressway The city of Neuilly-Sur-Seine is home to Avenue Charles-de-Gaulle (RN13), an urban expressway which is frequented by c.130,000 vehicles per day – from small cars to large buses and trucks. The City began a project in 2019 with the view of turning this urban expressway into an accessible, calm and welcoming boulevard ...
Good governance has many indicators and indices, but Ease of Living (EOL) stands out as one of the best measurables. One of the key pointers in EOL is mobility – mobility with safety, which means ease of navigating through traffic. An average city commuter spends as much as 25 to 35% of extra time on roads…if this is addressed, it ...
The Government of Kerala in 2002- 03 approved a set of projects under Capital Region Development Project (CRDP) for the planned development of the Capital City. These projects are under various stages of implementation. Of this, Thiruvananthapuram City Road Improvement Project, (TCRIP) comprising development, operation and maintenance of approx 42km of important city roads has achieved completion. The Government of ...
Siemens Innovation Day 2019 showcased innovative solutions that create sustainable value for businesses and societies. Siemens experts from Digital Industries, Smart Infrastructure, Gas & Power, Mobility, Corporate Technology and Next47 also shared the latest innovations, industry trends, and demonstrated how Siemens solutions create value for customers and society. The IoT solutions developed in India will complement the work done at ...
A number of innovative forces are coming together to define the future of mobility; right from electrification of vehicles, superfast transportation- both ground and underground- flying cars, to autonomous & connected cars or robocars. Frost and Sullivan forecasts eight million semi- and highly automated vehicles to enter the market within the next 10 years. Fully automated cars are expected to ...
Safety. Efficiency. Cost. Comfort. These are all familiar performance indicators within the realm of mobility. The private vehicles that we have known for the past eighty years typically score high on comfort, but are by nature less safe, less efficient, and costlier than most other modes of transportation. To mitigate these shortfalls of the private vehicle, complex infrastructural systems have ...
Visiting India throughout my life has given me an opportunity to see amazing transformations, especially over the last ten to fifteen years. Every visit allows me to see infrastructure improvements, new investments in mobility and increased connectivity. Connectivity is increasing around the world and by some estimates, we will have more than 200 billion internet-connected devices by 2020. As a ...
The aforementioned sensitivity to non-tech factors, that’s what clicked for team Get My Parking. They focused on how parking technology can be designed to make it work for the operators in the ever-changing consumer mobility space. It is this sensitivity and a big picture vision that have helped Get My Parking (GMP) to digitize 300+ parking lots with 85,000+ bays ...
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