[sustran] ‘City will be affected in the long term if private vehicle use is not discouraged’

Vinay Baindur yanivbin at gmail.com
Wed Nov 8 01:55:40 JST 2017


http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/city-will-be-
affected-in-the-long-term-if-private-vehicle-use-is-not-
discouraged/article19943259.ece

‘City will be affected in the long term if private vehicle use is not
discouraged’
<http://www.thehindu.com/profile/author/Mohit-M.-Rao/>Mohit M. Rao
<http://www.thehindu.com/profile/author/Mohit-M.-Rao/>
BENGALURU, OCTOBER 29, 2017 00:00 IST
UPDATED: OCTOBER 29, 2017 04:23 IST



Indo-Norwegian project report says 27% of the population may use private
vehicles by 2030

If stringent measures, including expanding public transport network and
stringent steps of imposing congestion charges are taken, by 2030, nearly
56% of the more than 1.8 crore people in the Bengaluru metropolitan area
will be travelling by bus or metro.

The Indian Institute of Science (IISc.) helmed Indo-Norwegian project,
“Climatrans” — which hoped to model the growth of the city under certain
policy measures — said implementing progressive policies can see a further
19.3% commuters either cycling or walking to their destinations, while just
18.5% will be using their private vehicles.

However, if nothing is done to encourage public transport, then 27.4% of
the population will be using private vehicles — and hence, more congestion
and more pollution — while around half the population will be using public
transport.

Indian Institute of Science researchers and five other institutes from
Norway and India collaborated to study how people’s commuting patterns can
reduce emissions and change the air we breathe in Bengaluru Urban, Rural,
and Ramanagaram.

To develop ways of mitigation, researchers had multiple meetings with the
civic agencies, planning bodies, transport experts, and policy
organisations to come up with planning, regulatory, economic, and
technological policies.

The researchers further used multiple factors and data to come up with a
model that would predict, with reasonable accuracy, the growth of the city.

>From the demographics and mobility done in 2008 — in a survey of 15,000
households commissioned by the Bangalore Metropolitan Regional Development
Authority — the researchers used traffic simulation, public transport
figures, geo-spatial analysis, economic models for transportation among
others to come up with scenarios for the years 2030 and 2050.

*‘Model is robust’*

“The model is robust as we tested the scenario with what we are observing
now and it nearly tallies,” said Ashish Verma, Assistant Professor from the
Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science.


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