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 ...
Charging Infrastructure for the Electric Vehicle Segment
Date : January 15, 2022
There is growing interest amongst Indian policy makers to encourage EV based mobility in cities and phase out ICE vehicles running on traditional fuels in order to reduce the carbon footprint of the economy. One of the key components of an electric vehicle (EV) ecosystem is a robust charging infrastructure. But storage technology is still in its nascent stages in India, and significant capital inv...
Economic Implications of E-Mobility Transition in India
Date : January 15, 2022
Globally, the electric mobility transition is underway driven by concerns around energy security, climate change and local air pollution. While India is increasingly looking at electric mobility as a viable mode of transport, the e-mobility transition in India is yet to take-off in a full-fledged manner. In 2017, less than 0.1% of the 21 million vehicles sold were electric. A range of barriers to ...
Informing the Design of FAME II Scheme
Date : January 15, 2022
The Government of India rolled out Phase-II of FAME Scheme with an outlay of Rs. 10,000 Crore for a period of 3 years commencing from 1st April 2019. The FAME II scheme is aimed at incentivising demand for electric vehicles, especially electric buses, 2- and 3-wheelers and 4-wheeler passenger cars. In order to successfully implement the roll-out of the scheme and ensure that the targets set by the...
Implementation Roadmap for Sustainable Urban Freight Mobility in Chennai
Date : January 15, 2022
The freight industry has a very complex and disintegrated system with urban freight traffic increasing day by day to meet the growing needs of an increasingly urban population. Urban freight transport is the movement of freight vehicles into, out of and within an urban area. The urban freight system includes manufacturing facilities, seaports, airports, distribution centres, wholesale and retail e...
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....
Improving the Fuel Efficiency of Vehicles
Date : January 14, 2022
Deteriorating air quality in Indian cities is a growing and serious concern. A major cause of this is the increasing emissions from the rapidly growing transport sector. Substantially improving vehicle efficiency has the potential to reduce emmissions as well as enhance energy and enrionment security....
Bus Karo – A Forum for Public Transport Policy Action and Knowledge Sharing
Date : January 14, 2022
Bus systems are integral to providing efficient public transport systems in cities due to their low implementation costs, flexible operations and easy scalability. To create a more strategic vision for improved bus services, Shakti has been collaborating with the Bus Karo programme. Bus Karo is a peer-to-peer knowledge sharing network consisting of State Transport Undertakings (STUs) and city bus ...