Dear All<br><br>I am currently assisting Professor Sudhir Chella Rajan on a project
with the aim of creating energy scenarios for India. I have the task of
estimating energy use in transport (and then creating scenarios),
using activity levels of different modes and their average energy
intensities. <br>
<br>I am running into some problems, hence this mail. <br><br>As a part
of this Project, I need to know the activity levels of cycling and
walking (in BPKM) for the whole of India. I have not come across this
kind of Data even for Indian Cities, and most studies mention just the
modal share for cycling and walking and ownership percentages for
cycles. <br>
<br>If some study would have surveyed the average trip length by
walk/cycle and also provided the total number of trips by cycle/walk
(or total number of trips in a city along with modal shares of walk and
cycle) it would be possible to calculate activity levels for cycling
and walking. Unfortunately, I have not come across any such study. <br>
<br>Even if such data would be available, my concern here is with the
activity levels for the whole of India, not for some specific cities.
It is unclear to me how I am going to do this, though assigning weights
to different kinds of cities may reveal a crude estimate. That estimate
will still exclude usage in rural India. <br>
<br>Does anyone know of any study that has attempted to find answers to any of these questions?<br>
<br>Also, has any one calculated/estimated the usage of diesel and
petrol cars? Data on total travel by cars is available, but not data
that differentiates between travel by diesel and petrol cars. We need
this data to work out the scenarios. <br>
<br>With thanks<br> <br>Aashish<br><font color="#888888"><br clear="all">Aashish Gupta<br>Student of Development Studies<br>Department of Humanities and Social Sciences<br>Indian Institute of Technology Madras<br>Chennai 600036<br>
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