{"id":27562,"date":"2018-10-23T14:48:28","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T09:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=27562"},"modified":"2018-10-23T14:48:28","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T09:18:28","slug":"transforming-urban-mobility-in-india-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/transforming-urban-mobility-in-india-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Transforming urban mobility in India \u2014 II"},"content":{"rendered":"

Transforming urban mobility in India \u2014 II<\/a><\/p>\n

Article<\/strong>: The article critically discusses about the role of e-vehicles in enhancing urban mobility.<\/p>\n

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  1. Important Analysis:<\/strong>
    \n1.Electric vehicles (EV) are \u00a0emerging\u00a0 as an attractive alternative \u00a0to conventional vehicles.
    \n2 Reasons behind the need for electric vehicles:
    \n\u2022\u00a0 Auto-makers are left with vey few options to further improve the conventional engines.
    \n\u2022\u00a0 Further investments and innovation in conventonal vehicles \u00a0are not yielding significant returns.
    \n\u2022\u00a0 Deteriorated \u00a0urban air quality due to less fuel efficiency and exhaust emissions.
    \n\u2022\u00a0 High cost of conventional vehicles drive masses toward low cost e-vehicles.<\/li>\n
  2. Benefits of electric vehicles: <\/strong>
    \n\u2022 Efficient energy-density, power-density and cost of batteries.
    \n\u2022 Low price range in a passenger car has wide acceptablity among users.
    \n\u2022 Zero exhaust emissions and lower carbon emissions than conventional cars.
    \n\u2022\u00a0 Environmentalists favour e-vehicles as they limit deterioration in air quality.
    \n\u2022 Lower manufacturing cost and extended useful life as compared to \u00a0conventional engine.<\/li>\n
  3. Challenges of \u00a0e-vehicles :<\/strong>
    \n\u2022 E-vehicles need at least 10 sq.m of urban road space exclusively.
    \n\u2022 High population densities and high economic activity in urban areas discourage the exclusive space for e-vehicles.
    \n4.\u00a0 Need for urban mobility space rather than e-vehicles:
    \n\u2022E-vehicles alone can\u2019t enhance urban mobility. Cities must improve mass and shared transit capacity.
    \n\u2022 Traffic congestion and expensive parking \u00a0has led to increased popularity of Uber and Ola among urban commuters.
    \n\u2022\u00a0 Digitised economy has multiplier effect on shared-mobility solutions like car-pooling option in cabs.
    \n\u2022 Urbanisation has led to displacement of lower income groups to suburbs, so more routes neeed to be explored for commuting.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \u00a0 5.International Best Practices:<\/strong>
    \n\u2022 Mexico has defined mobility as a basic human right and this helps steer policies that are inclusive.
    \n\u2022 San Francisco and New York have car-pooling option in \u00a0vans, aggregating 10-12 passengers at a time, further improving footprint and carbon efficiency.
    \n\u2022 Such demand-based, dynamically-routed services, mass and shared transit capacity can be enhanced while leveraging private capital.
    \n\u2022 Pedestrian zones \u00a0in\u00a0 Seoul, Barcelona,New York and Bike-lanes and bike-sharing solutions \u00a0in Amsterdam and Paris need to be learnt from.
    \n\u2022 Hong Kong has high density transit corridors like India, so \u00a0modern metro-rails exist there. India also needs to accelerate investment in all these modeIndia donot need more highways and flyovers, but rather quality side-walks and cycle wayEach city \u00a0has\u00a0 unique set of constraints. So a combination of investment, policy and regulations\u00a0 are needed for multiple modal\u00a0 transport options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Transforming urban mobility in India \u2014 II Article: The article critically discusses about the role of e-vehicles in enhancing urban mobility. Important Analysis: 1.Electric vehicles (EV) are \u00a0emerging\u00a0 as an attractive alternative \u00a0to conventional vehicles. 2 Reasons behind the need for electric vehicles: \u2022\u00a0 Auto-makers are left with vey few options to further improve the… Continue reading Transforming urban mobility in India \u2014 II<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704770101},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}