Air Pollution » Public Transport and Mobility

CSE Survey for Parking Charges: Sarojini Nagar, New Delhi

Parking pricing strategies are essential tools for bringing about a balance in the modal split between private vehicles and the public transport by influencing the traveller’s choice. High congestion levels are due to the travellers’ preference for the private mode of transport. Therefore, in order to bring about a better modal split balance, it becomes imperative to improve the public transit quality and also to charge a fee in the form of congestion fee or parking fee in order to check the growing congestion.

Air Pollution, Parking Policy, Parking Pricing, Public Transport and Mobility, Announcements
clean&Sustinable.jpg
CSE conference on Clean and Sustainable Mobility for all: Agenda for Reforms

September 28-29, 2011, New Delhi

City Action Plans, Clean and Sustainable Mobility, Non Motorised Vehicles, Public Transport, Vehicle Technology and Fuels, Public Transport and Mobility, Story
International Conference on Parking Reforms for a Liveable City

Venue: Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre, Lodi Road, New Delhi
Date: August 17, 2011 (9.30 am – 5 pm)

The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) is organising an international conference – Parking Reforms for a Liveable City in New Delhi on August 17, 2011.

Air quality, Public Transport and Mobility, Story
footfalls1.jpg
Footfalls: Obstacle Course to Livable Cities

This study provides detailed analysis of walking conditions in Indian cities. The analysis indicates that walkability is overlooked and undervalued in transport planning, and that improved walkability is justified for equity and efficiency sake.

It provides specific recommendations for improving walking conditions to address a variety of planning objectives.

CSE Study, Delhi, Non Motorised Vehicles, Pedestrians, Public Transport, Public Transport and Mobility, Story
cars.jpg
Choc-A-Block: Parking Measures to Address Mobility Crisis

Global experience bears out that parking management is one of the most powerful instruments to reduce travel by personal vehicles that also influences commuting choices in favour of public transport.

CSE Study, Parking Pricing, Public Transport, Transport management, Public Transport and Mobility, Reports

Factsheets

Cycle rickshaws: getting a breather

There is finally some respite for cycle rickshaws from the Delhi High Court. Recently the chief justice bench while hearing a petition on lifting of ban on cycle rickshaws on the main arteries of Delhi asked the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to submit an action plan for cycle rickshaws in the city.

Benchmarking urban transport in cities

The Union Ministry of Urban Development has now evolved a system for evaluating urban transport services in cities across India. All cities covered by the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) have been advised to benchmark their level of services for various parameters specified by the ministry.

Reports

cars.jpg
Choc-A-Block: Parking Measures to Address Mobility Crisis

Global experience bears out that parking management is one of the most powerful instruments to reduce travel by personal vehicles that also influences commuting choices in favour of public transport.

CSE Study, Parking Pricing, Public Transport, Transport management, Public Transport and Mobility, Reports
Delhi Bus Corridor: an evaluation

Delhi Bus Corridor:  an evaluation

Dario Hidalgo, PhD, Madhav Pai, MS, EMBARQ,

The WRI Center for Sustainable Transport, Submitted to the Center of Science and the Environment

Bus Rapid Transit System (BRT), CSE Study, Delhi, Public Transport, Public Transport and Mobility, Reports

Blogs: Recent Posts

Chandra Bhushan's picture
Chandra Bhushan
Mind Over Matter
3 February 2012
Everybody’s business
Comments
Energy Technology, LANCO Infratech, Solar, Blogs
More >>

Policy & Legislation

Requiem for the state bus

Kill. The ultimate scalpel operation as the final sign of life ebbs away. Let it die, rather than drag a colossal waste. We were probably expecting this to happen. Not just to this state-owned bus transit undertaking in India’s largest state -- Madhya Pradesh -- but to numerous other undertakings that have state governments as their bosses.

Public Transport, Public Transport and Mobility, Policy Police
Transit conundrum

We never expected public transport to catch the political imagination in the car maniacal city of Delhi. So we were pleasantly surprised by the recent budget of the Delhi government. The transport sector has hogged the biggest pie of the total budgetary allocation – nearly one-fourth of the total plan outlay.

Public Transport, Public Transport and Mobility, Policy Police

Work Overview

The biggest challenge that confronts cities today is the intractable problem of automobile dependence. As the automobile dependence continues to grow, it is adversely affecting the quality of urban life. Congestion, unsafe roads and pollution remain their bane. Unless accompanied by policies to restrict the growth in car and motorised two-wheeler travel, cities will run hard only to stand still.

Read More

Announcements

  • CSE Survey for Parking Charges: Sarojini Nagar, New Delhi

    Parking pricing strategies are essential tools for bringing about a balance in the modal split between private vehicles and the public transport by influencing the traveller’s choice. High congestion levels are due to the travellers’ preference for the private mode of transport. Therefore, in order to bring about a better modal split balance, it becomes imperative to improve the public transit quality and also to charge a fee in the form of congestion fee or parking fee in order to check the growing congestion.

Latest Clippings

State govt seeks 500 more buses for BMTC under JnNURM
Rs 250-crore terminal to be built at Hebbal on PPP model The State government has submitted a proposal to the Centre to provide 500 buses to the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JnNURM).

Products

mobility_1.jpg
MOBILITY CRISIS – Agenda for Action 2010

 
CSE's latest book in its Right to Clean Air Campaign series. We have more roads and flyovers than ever before to address our transportation worries. But our cities continue to be gridlocked, with traffic at a virtual standstill as private vehicles hugely outnumber our public transport options. It is time to set new terms of action, make our cities more walkable, review our pollution and congestion control strategies…
 
Price: Rs 290 (USD 12)
Pages : 110
Order now >>

Down To Earth Articles

18_1.jpg
How negotiable is your city?

THE Union ministry of urban development has evolved a system for evaluating urban transportation services in cities across India.

19.jpg
Coming soon: carpool for Delhi, NCR

Will people risk giving ride to strangers?

Car owners in Delhi may be able to save up to 50 per cent travel cost by sharing rides under a citywide carpool scheme proposed by the Delhi transport department aimed at decongesting the city.

18.jpg
Maharashtra rejects court’s traffic plan

Easing traffic the Beijing way impractical for Mumbai says government

 
Follow us on
 
 
 

 

 
 
 
 
gobar times