Urban Transport in Indian Cities A peak of rush hour commuters at Churchgate‚ a terminus for one of Mumbai’s main suburban train lines contributing to the nearly 6.5 million people feeding in and out of the city daily. Urban travel in Indian cities predominantly happens through walking‚ cycling and public transport‚ including intermediate public transport (IPT). Despite high growth rates of motorised two wheelers and cars in the last two decades (15 per cent and 10 per cent per annum respectively)
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------------------------------------------------- Manila Light Rail Transit System From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Manila Light Rail Transit System | The platform area of LRTA Purple line Legarda Station. | Overview | Type | Rapid transit | Status | Operational | Termini | Baclaran (Yellow Line)‚ Santolan (Purple Line) Roosevelt (Yellow Line)‚ Recto (Purple Line) | Stations | 31 | Services | 2 | Daily ridership | 600‚000 (2011) | Operation | Opened | December 1‚ 1984 | Owner | Light Rail Transit Authority
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1. Introduction 1.1 Light Rail Transit System (LRT) The modern day Light Rail Transit systems around the world lie in the intermediate stage of evolution and lie between trams and railways. They try to imbibe the advantages of railways such as speed and greater throughputs while maintaining the flexibility and accessibility of trams. These systems essentially resemble railways in the fact that they operate on electrified rail routes but operate within a city or an urban zone to facilitate movement
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he Delhi Metro (Hindi: दिल्ली मेट्रो Dillī Meṭro) is a rapid transit system serving Delhi‚ Gurgaon and Noida in the National Capital Region of India. The network consists of five lines with a total length of 125.67 kilometres (78.09 mi). The metro has 107 stations of which 17 are underground. It has a combination of elevated‚ at-grade and underground lines and uses both broad gauge and standard gauge rolling stock. Delhi Metro is being built and operated by the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Limited
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western sections of the city are connected by Al Maktoum Bridge‚ Al Garhoud Bridge‚ Al Shindagha Tunnel‚ Business Bay Crossing and Floating Bridge. A Dubai Bus in Dubai Marina An air conditioned bus stop The Red Line on the Dubai Metro. The Dubai Metro is the first urban train network in the Arabian Peninsula. Abras are the traditional mode of transport between Deira and Bur Dubai. The Public Bus Transport system in Dubai is run by the RTA. The bus system services 140 routes and
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NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION: METRO MANILA GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION The National Capital Region or NCR is the center of Luzon and capital region of the Philippines. The Cordillera Mountains forms its boundary on the east‚ Laguna de Bay on the southeast‚ Central Luzon on the north and Southern Tagalog region on the south. It is composed of the cities of Manila‚ Kalookan‚ Las Pinas‚ Makati‚ Mandaluyong‚ Marikina‚ Paranaque‚ Muntinlupa‚ Pasay‚ Pasig and Quezon City. Pending ratification for city hood
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1. Challenges Facing Urban Transportation Cities are locations having a high level of accumulation and concentration of economic activities and are complex spatial structures that are supported by transport systems. The most important transport problems are often related to urban areas and take place when transport systems‚ for a variety of reasons‚ cannot satisfy the numerous requirements of urban mobility. Urban productivity is highly dependent on the efficiency of its transport system to move
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What I would like to be remembered for? | | | | Knowledge makes you great I am delighted to address the Annual National Management Symposium INSIGHT 10 organized by the Loyola Institute of Business Administration‚ Chennai. My greetings to all of you. Dear friends‚ when I am in the midst of future leaders of management‚ I fondly remember my interactions with the management students of IIM‚ Ahmedabad‚ IIM Indore and also at Gatton College of Business and Economics at the University of Kentucky
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Our recommendation to the City of Los Angeles is to deter a portion of people from private vehicles by increasing the costs of using cars and owning cars. Meanwhile‚ we need to improve the public transportation system by improving metro buses and metro rails systems. The third way to transform to sustainable transportation is to promote green vehicles by encouraging the use of low emission cars and other environmental friendly transport modes. BENEFITS OF SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION
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of goods like rail‚ sea or through air transport. One more important aspect that we need to notice is that the fuel prices are growing at a very rapid pace due to the very high demand‚ often these prices are paid by the final consumers. So it very important for us to develop better technologies and reduce these costs. In many countries the rail network is very much fragmented and limited; this will certainly increase more pressure on the roads and increase traffic. So a good rail network is very
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