Can India take SAHI road to urban mobility?

Can India take SAHI road to urban mobility?

News:

1. The Global Mobility Summit was organised by the NITI Aayog in New Delhi on friday.

Important Facts:

2. India needs to prepare for a rapid increase in demand for mobility as it aspires to be the second largest economy in the world, behind China by 2050.

3. Accordingly, the NITI Aayog along with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has formed a report named ‘Transforming India’s Mobility: A Perspective’ marking daily rise in fuel prices.

4. The report stressed on:

• Efficient and convenient public transport: To answer the twin problems of pollution and congestion.
• Reasons for traffic congestions as:
  • absence of a public transport system,
  • rapid rise in private vehicle ownership.

• 40-fold rise in the number of motor vehicles in India in last 44 years, from 1981 to 2015

5. India marked the public transport to be a cornerstone of national mobility initiatives.

6. Points raised by the Prime Minister of India in his speech in the summit:

‘7Cs’ for the future of mobility: common, connected, convenient, congestion-free, charged, clean and cutting-edge.

Common problems faced in the cities in the world by the motorised personal vehicles which requires more roads, parking and traffic.

7. Recognising the role of mobility in preservation of our planet, the Prime Minister of India stated the accounts for road transport, as responsible for one-fifth of global CO2 emissions, which threatens to choke cities and raise global temperatures.