On a warm evening in Ahmedabad, around 30 architects, urban planners, students, researchers gathered for a workshop aimed at understanding who the city is for? While gender was the primary lens through which we aimed to understand the experience of the city, we intersected it with age, economic status, and disability. Sonal Shah, the Urban Catalysts gives a brief report ...
The World Economic Forum last December published a white paper “Transforming Urban Logistics: Sustainable and Efficient Last-Mile Delivery in Cities”, which addressed the challenges and opportunities of increased demand for urban deliveries by businesses and consumers. The study focused on the stakeholders involved in urban deliveries including local governments, retailers and delivery companies and called to adopt greater sustainable practices, ...
As part of the Annual Meeting of the Global Future Councils at the World Economic Forum last year, Mohamed Mezghani, Secretary-General, Union Internationale des Transports Publics (UITP) and Jinhua Zhao, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) published the following article recommending the integration of Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) with public transport systems. Autonomous vehicles (AVs) bring benefits such as reducing operational ...
Founder & MD of a company bearing his name, Manoj K. Agarwal is a business consultant with more than three decades of experience in hospitality & shopping malls. In a discussion with TrafficInfraTech, Agarwal shares his views on the developments in parking strategy in malls, the challenges faced and advancements to expect in the future. National Earlier, there was physical ...
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. ...
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 street design as a multi-disciplinary ...
S.V.R. Srinivas, the Commissioner, Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority, is sure in a hurry. Just about nine months in the office, he is pushing himself and his teams to complete the crucial projects that are long been awaited by the Mumbaikars. With a few days left for the opening of Metro line 2A and 7, Srinivas took time off to ...
Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari has stressed upon the need for making the public transport people friendly, safe, affordable, accessible, cost effective and pollution free. The Minister also highlighted the need of implementing the ITS in the operation as well as the National Common Mobility Card in order to make its operation fully digitised and efficient. ...
Most cities do not have a timely estimate of the travel demand. Hence, all congestions mitigation plans are essentially a cure for the symptom and not the cause and we grope in the dark for the magic bullet that will make congestion disappear. All cities should put in place measures that will provide them with continuous estimate of travel patterns. ...
As part of a webinar series to help Indian cities develop COVID-19 transport solutions, the first one focused on Public Transport SOPs to ensure the safety of crew and passengers. The series is presented by Smart City Mission, the Government of India and Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) in partnership with the Transport & ICT Group of the ...
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