Innovative Public Transport Information Systems
Date : January 19, 2022
Providing real-time, accurate and reliable information on bus operations can help increase the declining mode share of buses in Indian cities. Shakti has commissioned the development of a public transport information system for buses in Hyderabad, as a case city, through the innovative use of information technology based web and mobile applications. This report captures the methodology used to dev...
Financing Sustainable Urban Transport through Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs)
Date : January 19, 2022
The Smart Cities Mission will require significant amounts of capital to meet the rapidly growing requirements of cites. One way for cities to generate additional funds is Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs). The Smart Cities Mission has placed significant emphasis on the PPP model encouraging the private sector to mobilize capital, technology and other resources. Such partnerships can support gover...
Strengthening the Regulatory Environment for Urban Transport
Date : January 17, 2022
Public transport systems (i.e. buses, metros, suburban rail) are, for the most part, unable to meet the mobility demand in Indian cities. As a result, the ownership of private vehicles (such as cars and two-wheelers) has increased significantly. This in turn has led to more congestion and travel time, worsening air quality and increase in GHG emissions from transport sector. One of the many re...
Sustainable Mobility and Citizen Preferences
Date : January 17, 2022
Consumers are one of the largest and most important user group in an economy; but they are also the only group who are not effectively organized and whose views are often not heard. One of the most effective ways to nudge the transport sector towards an efficient and cleaner future is to understand, and inform the consumer behavior towards low carbon transport modes (such as walking & cycl...
Inter Model Comparison of Different Transportation-Sector Policies in India
Date : January 17, 2022
The transportation sector is one of India’s major energy consuming sectors. As the country's GDP grows, it will lead to heightened transport activity for moving passengers and freight by the way of rapid motorisation. This will lead to a concomitant rise in energy and Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions from the transport sector as a whole. Thus, there exists significant potential for decarbonising t...
Catalysing Investments for Sustainable Urban Transport through Municipal Finance Reforms
Date : January 17, 2022
Over the next 20 years, India’s cities will require an investment of at least USD 800 billion to meet the growing demand for civic services. While some of this can be met through government funding, increasingly cities will have to seek recourse through other means, including the issuance of municipal bonds. While the potential of India’s municipal bond market is high, it has remained largely ...
Implementing Sustainable Transport Projects in Smart Cities Programmes
Date : January 17, 2022
In the past, support from Shakti helped four cities—Visakhapatnam, Kakinada, Jaipur and Udaipur—to include sustainable mobility and built environment components into their Smart City Proposals. Based on the strength of the proposals, all four cities made it to the list of top 20 cities selected for the first round of funding under the Smart City Mission. Now, support provided by Shakti is ...
Transit Oriented Development (TOD) in India
Date : January 15, 2022
The growing urban sprawl in India is leading to the increased use of private vehicles, congested roads and more pollution as well as adding to the existing infrastructure of our cities. Along with efforts to build smarter and more sustainable cities, the Government of India is also focusing on Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) to support the urban transformation process. In essence, TOD integrate...
Value Capture Finance (VCF) for Sustainable Transport Infrastructure
Date : January 15, 2022
In 2017, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) released the National TOD Policy acknowledging the importance for cities to adopt TOD within their development plans. Many states have adopted and released their own TOD policies. However, despite policy action, two critical barriers to implement TOD remained unaddressed. The first was the lack of adequate urban planning tools that enabled...
Road Pricing for Travel Demand Management
Date : January 15, 2022
Indian cities are witnessing a rapid increase in the share of trips made by privately owned motorised vehicles. This is leading to externalities like increased air pollution, energy consumption and congestion. It is important to introduce appropriate pricing mechanisms that dis-incentivise the use of private vehicles and curb the related negative externalities....