Bicycle Maintenance 101: How to keep your cycle running
Author: Priyanka Krishnan, Research & Program Associate, B.MOBILE, B.PAC Co-Authors: Nayana Sharma P and Mitushee Sawarkar, Interns, B.PAC It’s World Bicycle Day 2024, and I wonder if we keep chores like bicycle and fan maintenance on the same pedestal as that of car, motorbike or air-conditioner maintenance. Maybe we are more afraid of spoiling the pricier things, which is […]
Tomorrow, Let’s Move Different: Navigating the Future with Sustainable Urban Mobility and Energy Conservation
In the bustling city of Bengaluru, the demand for public transport has increased significantly due to the city’s rapid growth and population expansion. The city’s rapid growth has led to an increase in travel needs, creating a demand for public transport. However, the city’s mobility sector faces several challenges, including dependence on private vehicles, insufficient public transport, and high pollution […]
How Congestion Pricing can help Tackle Bengaluru’s Traffic Problems
Bengaluru has been officially declared as the most congested city in the world, as per the TomTom Traffic Index report in January 2020. The report says, “Commuters in Bengaluru spend an extra 243 hours and 71% travel time stuck in the traffic.” 1 According to the latest report by the specialist in geolocation technologies, TomTom, revealed that Bengaluru’s city centre […]
Where There Is A Bus, There Is A Sustainable Way: Bengaluru’s Bus Priority Lanes
In November 2019, The Directorate of Urban Land and Transport (DULT), a statewide nodal agency formally announced the commencement of an integrated pilot project; ‘Cities on the Move Challenge- Where there is a bus, there is a way’. This infrastructural project was a cognizant step towards sustainable mobility and comprehensive mobility planning in the state of Karnataka. This Bus Priority […]
Bengaluru needs an EV Roadmap
Bengaluru’s rapidly evolving transportation sector is one of the key causes of local air pollution, rising greenhouse gases (GHG), and associated health problems. In Bengaluru, road transport contributes to over 40% of carbon emission (TV Ramachandra et. al, 2015), with many urban transport systems already under strain and mobility demand predicted to grow significantly in the future, mobility needs to […]
