[sustran] Re: Information on transportation activity in India

[Sudhir]

Dear Aashish,

If you are looking into City level data then you may not get all the answers
in a single report. MOUD report would be a good way to begin your journey.
It has average Trip length for all modes but not segregated mode wise. For
getting this data you may have to collect individual level data/reports at
city levels.  You can access many findings on emissions at City/ Country
level at  @ http://www.baq2008.org/program. There are many research findings
discussed during BAQ and you may enjoy that.

Some of the Presentations you may be interested in are
*http://www.baq2008.org/sw18-schipper*
http://www.baq2008.org/sw18-saxena
http://www.baq2008.org/sw18-gota

We have some good numbers with us. We are currently doing research where we
are examining and comparing the City and Country estimates and trying to
figure out the scenarios and issues i.e. city impact on country emissions.

in case you would like to discuss further we would be glad to help.

best regards
Sudhir Gota

2009/1/14 Aashish Gupta <aashu.gupta20 at gmail.com>

> Dear All
>
> 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.
>
> I am running into some problems, hence this mail.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Does anyone know of any study that has attempted to find answers to any of
> these questions?
>
> 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.
>
> With thanks
>
> Aashish
>
> Aashish Gupta
> Student of Development Studies
> Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
> Indian Institute of Technology Madras
> Chennai 600036
> +91 9884774698
> aashu.gupta20 at gmail.com
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