Delhi HC dismisses appeal to scrap BRT

Says a developed country is not one where the poor own cars. It is one where the rich use public transport

Going overhead

A mass transport system above city streets could be the best option for urban town planners

Boon or bane?

WB walks out of Mumbai urban transport project

Flywheels offer cheap option for operating trams

A British firm has developed an innovative tram system as a cheap alternative for mass transport

The great divide

For the urban Indian, upwardly mobile on auto-power, livestock means products like milk and meat. For 75 per cent of India living in villages, it …

Mumbai BRTS: held up in transit

Bus transport project changes hands; planners say it’s sabotage

Rajkot clueless about restoring bus service

Failed experiment of providing public transport through private partners raises questions about such ventures

Moving towards a green future in transport

The transport sector makes up 30 per cent of global energy consumption and its energy use is expected to grow one per cent every year till 2030

Stuart Cole on effective transport management

Transport economist Stuart Cole is director of the Wales Transport Research Centre in Cardiff. On a recent visit to Mumbai, he spoke to Nidhi …

Shift to public transport should conserve energy

A shift to public transport should avert the energy crisis

Mindless metro debate

What is at stake is a discussion on what it would take to make the public transport system of our cities truly the one that moves people, not …

The riddle of mobility

URBAN TRANSPORT, ENVIRONMENT AND EQUITY: THE CASE FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES By Eduardo A . Vaconcellos . 333 pages . 2001 . Earthscan …

Superheroes of Manila's traffic

Converted World War II vintage jeeps, called jeepneys in the Philippines, are the most popular mode of public transport in Manila. They are …

Why odd-even system can bring back the glory of bus transport

One can call it environmental injustice or incentive for pollution, public bus transport is more taxed than private vehicles

Utter chaos

Faulty and ad hoc urban planning has plunged Indian cities into a vicious transport mess. CSE explains the problem with its study on Alaknanda in …

Cycle ban in Kolkata: activists petition high court

Police and transport department ignored months of protests by users of non-motorised transport

West Africa countries report spike in Ebola cases

Despite advisories, relatives of victims have been using public transport to transport their dead bodies

Walking or cycling to work reduces health risks in India

Study makes case for investment in public transport, pedestrian and cycling routes

Nuts and bolts

Short-circuiting institutions

A congestion plan in the name of decongesting Delhi

Urban development ministry’s expert panel report on how to decongest Delhi pays only lip service to improving public transport and …

Tram to oblivion

Kolkata witnesses the last days of a non-polluting and once-efficient mode of transport, while trams make a comeback in cities around the world. …

James Watson to auction his Nobel Prize for discovering double helix structure of DNA

The money would go to the institutions where he studied and worked

Let them adapt

Customary institutions can lead if so empowered

Footprints in the sands of time

Research institutions founded in Calcutta

Rule relaxed

TN unshackles timber transport