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This chapter looks at how intelligent transportation systems can help create a sustainable transportation plan for a city through improvements in the efficiency of system. The chapter attempts to argue that a proper measure of efficiency of transportation systems will lead to a more sustainable system. The chapter also highlights the issues that need attention in order to create a sustainable urban mobility plan.
This manuscript was first published in Current Science (2011), Vol. 100 (9), pp. 1386–1390. It is reproduced here with permission.
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Motorized cabins with capacity of six to eight persons which typically ply on a fixed route but on a flexible schedule
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The word country is used here to indicate that even if we looked at Indian cities as a unit, it will be larger, in population, than most other countries. Of course, urban and rural India together is one nation.
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Chakroborty, P. (2017). Sustainable Transportation for Indian Cities: Role of Intelligent Transportation Systems. In: Sivakumar Babu, G., Saride, S., Basha, B. (eds) Sustainability Issues in Civil Engineering. Springer Transactions in Civil and Environmental Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1930-2_4
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