Smarter Intra-City Mobility
12:00 PM, 5th November, 2013
Presented by: Tanuj Biyani, Anuj Khandelwal, Sanket Suthar, Prachita Singh, Ishan Khan
Advisor: Sandip Kumar
Advisor: Sandip Kumar
Cities, like best of humanity’s creations, have their own set of problems. The undesirable impact on environment, social and economic inequity, alarming levels of waste generation, densities of population entirely unsuitable for healthy living, etc. are some of the glaring issues which need to be tackled immediately. Even then, more and more people are moving to the cities and by 2050, it is estimated that cities will house 70% of the world’s population. (Habitat)
Smart movement across the globe is a response to this. It deems to address these issues and more by means of developing Information and Communication technologies and intelligent systems which are sensitive to the immediate conditions.
However, as a developing country housing world’s second largest population, can we afford to take up on capital intensive solutions? What is our context and our needs?
In the following paper, we explore the possibilities for our city to become smart, keeping transportation within the city our focus. We try and look at how people travel within the city; also how would they like to travel in the city.
Is the question of transportation only about meeting the travel need of city or is it also about reducing these needs? If yes, then how?
What is the mindset of people when it comes to transportation and its various modes?
We look at how other countries are undertaking these challenges and what we can learn from them. Should we accommodate or go extreme and ban cars? And if we do, then how do people travel?
In the process, we stumble upon and address the bigger questions like who the city is designed for and how much right does one have over his/her city?
What we must take from the bigger idea that drives the smart movement and how not to be hog washed by the corporate ideal it seems to embolden.
Transportation, as this group comes to understand, is so much more then Mass rapid and Bus Rapid. It is essentially about people, as are our cities. Even then, we let the economics guide city growth predominantly. Thus, we NEED to be smart, but more importantly, HOW do we be smart?
Smart movement across the globe is a response to this. It deems to address these issues and more by means of developing Information and Communication technologies and intelligent systems which are sensitive to the immediate conditions.
However, as a developing country housing world’s second largest population, can we afford to take up on capital intensive solutions? What is our context and our needs?
In the following paper, we explore the possibilities for our city to become smart, keeping transportation within the city our focus. We try and look at how people travel within the city; also how would they like to travel in the city.
Is the question of transportation only about meeting the travel need of city or is it also about reducing these needs? If yes, then how?
What is the mindset of people when it comes to transportation and its various modes?
We look at how other countries are undertaking these challenges and what we can learn from them. Should we accommodate or go extreme and ban cars? And if we do, then how do people travel?
In the process, we stumble upon and address the bigger questions like who the city is designed for and how much right does one have over his/her city?
What we must take from the bigger idea that drives the smart movement and how not to be hog washed by the corporate ideal it seems to embolden.
Transportation, as this group comes to understand, is so much more then Mass rapid and Bus Rapid. It is essentially about people, as are our cities. Even then, we let the economics guide city growth predominantly. Thus, we NEED to be smart, but more importantly, HOW do we be smart?