Parking your car for a day in downtown London will cost you Rs 3,037, going by the current rupee strength and Rs 2,025 in New York. But, in Ahmedabad you pay peanuts to reserve a parking space. While experts say it’s time for prohibitive parking rates, to make people avoid using cars, traffic authorities believe…
Author: Nneka Njoku
There is a need to change the mindset and steer away from personalised transport to public transport. This was stated by Union Minster for Urban Development S. Jaipal Reddy while inaugurating the three-day National Conference on Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) and Urban Mobility India in New Delhi recently. The minster said that…
PRESS RELEASE The Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs of the Government of Korea, the United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD), and the Ministry of the Environment of the Government of Japan will be jointly organizing the Fourth Regional Environmentally Sustainable Transport (EST) Forum from 24 to 26 February 2009 at the Grand…
Ahmedabad : Are you prepared to leave your car home and choose public transport for a day? It could be a Sunday or any weekday of the month. This could happen if the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) and the traffic police with people’s co-operation identify a stretch in the city as ‘no car zone’ for…
While compulsory emissions testing for private cars continues to be delayed, the Jakarta administration claims air quality is getting better across the city thanks to regular car-free days. Data from the Jakarta Environment Management Board (BPLHD) shows Jakartans breathed healthy air on 104 days up to October this year, compared to only 73 days last…
As preocupações com o meio ambiente e o futuro do planeta dominaram os debates no Painel “O Parlamento e a Defesa dos Direitos da Mobilidade Urbana”, no segundo dia da Conferência Internacional de Mobilidade por Bicicleta, realizada no Ministério das Cidades, pela ONG Rodas da Paz. “Nós estamos retornando à era do fogo”, afirmou o…
This paper was prepared by Walter Hook, Executive Director, Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP), as a contribution to the OECD/ITF Global Forum on Transport and Environment in a Globalising World that will be held 10-12 November 2008 in Guadalajara, Mexico. It discusses ways to mitigate the risk of climate change by reducing travel…
The Land Transport Authority is forging ties with several parties in its search for new ways to enhance urban mobility. The authority signed a memorandum of collaboration (MOC) on Wednesday with six strategic parties to work towards making Singapore ‘a centre for research for world-class urban transport solutions’. The MOC was signed with the Economic…
Our world seems a mess. Greenhouse gases are choking the planet, the cost of almost everything is skyrocketing, and people spend so much time either at work or commuting, they hardly get to see their families. Technological development hasn’t really freed us from the drudgery of manual labour — it’s just created another form of…