Better Streets, Better Cities: a Guide to Street Design in Urban India illustrates ways that good design can help create safer streets and more livable public spaces. The guide was prepared by ITDP in collaboration with the Ahmedabad-based Environmental Planning Collaborative. Current street design practice in India is often based on a vision of high-speed…
Location: India
From the ITDP staff meeting BRT workshop, October 9, 2009, New York City in conjunction with the Walk 2 conference Download this presentation Source: Chris Kost (7 MBs)
A growing number of Asian cities are experiencing a rapid rise in the numbers of motorized twowheelers. In many of those cities, these vehicles account for the majority of traffic. This has significant ramifications, both positive and negative, for road safety, congestion, air pollution, economic development, and climate change. This study is a comprehensive review of the best practices…
India, like other developing countries, is characterized by its rising population, mounting urbanization and motorization, and low per capita income. As Indian cities have grown in population, they have also spread outward. A lack of effective planning and land use controls has resulted in rapid, rampant sprawl extending beyond old city boundaries and into the distant countryside. This greatly increased…
Download this presentation Source: Walter Hook, ITDP
Download this presentation Source: ITDP
On May 17th, 2006, the Delhi High Court passed an order directing the Municipal Corporation of Delhi – (1) “not to grant any licenses in future for plying Cycle Rickshaws on Delhi roads”, and (2) complete ban on plying of cycle rickshaws in ‘Chandni Chowk’ area (Walled City) and introduce the CNG buses in the area to replace rickshaws.”…
Hyderabad urgently needs to develop a mass transit system protected from its increasing traffic congestion. Mass transit is needed now on three central corridors, and will eventually be needed on at least nine corridors. Bus rapid transit (BRT), metro, and monorail technologies could all provide a system with sufficient capacity and speed to improve mass transit ridership in…