An earful of high decibels

As the rumble of traffic in the Capital gets louder, experts come up with various ways to clear the clatter

Wheels within wheels

Car pools for urban traffic blues

Reaching for the Skies

New Delhi has become the hub of the burgeoning air traffic in Asia. But does it have the mathematical precision to avoid traffic snarls in the air?

Highways of death

High risk levels and pathetically inadequate disaster management plans tar Indian roads as danger zones

Another ammunition cache in Ghaziabad

There will be many more if we don't clean up

Paying with lives for free parking

Blood bath over parking has not influenced the politics of the city to deliver on the right principles

Poor traffic management cause for worry

No encouragement for taking vehicles off crowded streets

My experiment with honking-free driving

Car horn should be an emergency device, not a toy

How wide does a road have to be for a bus to pass?

One of the many problems with Delhi’s BRT is that it never went far enough

Bicycles pave the way

Automobiles were not the harbingers of good roads—at least not in USA

Reaching for the Skies

New Delhi has become the hub of the burgeoning air traffic in Asia. But does it have the mathematical precision to avoid traffic snarls in the air?

Congestion in the skies is costing India dearly

Bridge gap between planning and engineering to shift to sustainable mobility

Countries’ policies for sustainable transport have the right intentions, but are incomplete and selective

Revisiting economics of congestion

Virtual trip on Delhi's DTC buses

The anatomy of congestion

Travel today is relatively faster, and people across the world are travelling more than ever before. But at a giant cost: urban roads are choked …

Designed for accidents

Building cities around only motor vehicles is fatal

Integrate

The key lesson

On two legs and a prayer

Walkers outnumber people using vehicles in every Indian city. But city plans have no space for pedestrians, nor do urban roads. Will town …

No public transport?

Cars are swamping roads at an unprecedented rate, outstripping the increase in road space. The results are congestion, reduced mobility and …

Small car revolution Who cares about congestion, pollution

The ultra-cheap small cars in the pipeline will tilt the skewed balance against public transport and two-wheelers irretrievably. The result will …

Private vehicles eating into scare public land

Private vehicles are clogging city streets, as they grow at a frightening pace. Hidden subsidies help park them on scarce public land and …

Olympics 2008, Beijing - raising the bar

Beijing is implementing strict measures to improve air quality, a commitment it took on as host of the 2008 Olympic Games. But a boom in …

In full gear

Roads are meant for walking