Are Indian Cities Moving Towards Sustainable Transportation?

A product of WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities

PAULO SERGIO CUSTODIO – SEPTEMBER 2016

"ARE INDIAN CITIES MOVING TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION?"

• Sustainable cities will be the ones with less cars on the streets

• The ideal situation would be cities without cars

• Many cities promote a day without car as a way to show we canmove without cars

• Cars are confortable and convenient but.• They cause congestion and air pollution

• Cars not only occupy street space causing congestion and air pollution.

• They consume considerable space for parking

• Parking consumes also big chunk ot public space. It is private use of public space.

• With the event of car, there was a need for space on the small streets of old towns

• Rail was a developed technology and the best way was to put public transportation either underground or elevated

London New York

• Cities are started moving from investing in infrastructure for cars to other actions:

• Better use of existing infrastructure for cars – car pool, hov lanes

• Changing use of road space with more eficient systems: queue jumps, bus lanes BRT

• Cities are started moving from investing in infrastructure for cars to other actions:

• Better use of existing infrastructure for cars – car pool, hov lanes

• Changing use of road space with more eficient systems: queue jumps, bus lanes BRT

• Hov lanes in Los Angeles

• Bus lanes were next step to improve use of road space

• BRT was next step to improve use of road space

Curitiba

• Bogota, Colombia proved BRT could have high capacity.• Today is transports 45 thousand passengers per hour

per direction, more than most of metros in the world

• Move people to more sustainable transportation - bikes

CopenhagenParis

• Move people to more sustainable transportation – Public bikes

Sao Paulo - BrazilParis - France

• Mixed uses makes cities more productive• Increasing probability of short trips makes

a difference

• Transit Oriented Development• Transfoming environment to make transit

more attractive

• Walking as a choice and acess mode

• Solution is a puzzle. It depends on how we mount the pieces

Urban development

Demand Management

NMT + Transit

Traffic management

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