FLEET Long Range Planning Tool for STUs: User Manual
Date : April 13, 2022
To provide assistance to the targeted users (STU officials, bus operators, researchers etc), the FLEET tool is supported with a user manual. This document is developed by the project team for guiding the user regarding usability and functionality of the FLEET tool. The User manual explains step by step data inputs for each of user forms. It explains the functionality of the tool, data requirement,...
Inspection and Maintenance Program for In-Use Vehicles in India
Date : January 19, 2022
The transport sector is a significant contributor to air pollution in urban areas. Research has shown that poorly maintained and older vehicles are responsible for a major share of pollution in cities. Therefore, the management of India's in-use vehicle fleet is an important step for the control of vehicular emissions. The Inspection and Maintenance Program for In-Use Vehicles aims to inspect vehi...
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...
Inspection and Maintenance Program for In-Use Vehicles in India
Date : January 19, 2022
The transport sector is a significant contributor to air pollution in urban areas. Research has shown that poorly maintained and older vehicles are responsible for a major share of pollution in cities. Therefore, the management of India's in-use vehicle fleet is an important step for the control of vehicular emissions. The Inspection and Maintenance Program for In-Use Vehicles aims to inspect vehi...
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...
Accelerating Electric Vehicle Adoption in India
Date : January 17, 2022
Over the last year, the Government of India has shown clear indications that it is keen to accelerate India’s transition to Electric Vehicles (EVs). However, there still exist ambiguities about the ways in which this transition may occur. Indian travel behaviour, modal split and consumption patterns are quite different from those observed in developed countries. Low vehicle ownership, low-afford...
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 ...