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Vol. I / Issue 1 November 2018 (NOV-DEC) Editor’s Note Multimodal: Future of public transport A Urban Transport Infrastructure Magazine is published bi-monthly by: Urban Transport News 8B/4, Street No. 3, Janta Garden Pandav Nagar, New Delhi – 110091, India Tel: [phone] E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.urbantransportnews.com Subscriptions: Urban Transport Infrastructure eMagazine is sent without obligation to professionals and key opinion leaders working in urban transport industry in India and other countries. However, publisher reserves the right to limit the number of copies. Single Copy: Print- INR 300.00, Digital- INR 125.00 Annual (6 issues): Print INR 1800.00, Digital: INR 600.00 All subscriptions payable in advance. Print circulation available in India only. recent NITI Aayog-led report, Transforming India’s Mobility, rightly calls for focused policy attention on creating efficient, seamless and convenient public transport to tackle rising pollution transport to tackle rising pollution and congestion in urban areas. The way forward is to make public transport attractive for urban India, by holistic design of habitats and transport, intensive and extensive use of data and information technology, better designed public private partnership agreements, greater allocation of resources and a combination of top-down dissemination of knowledge and know-how and decentralization of decision-making. The report reveals that India’s transport demand has grown by almost eight times since 1980, more than elsewhere in Asia. And, in fast urbanizing India, transport demand is bound to gather speed going forward. Hence the pressing need to plan ahead to better coagulate resources on the ground to provide modern, dependable and holistic public transport. The policy objective needs to be the provision of transport solutions that are clean, convenient and congestion-free. We need Intelligent Transport Systems in the dense urban centers, complete with on-board sensors and road-level detectors, to better monitor and manage traffic in real time. Demand-side measures like smartphone apps would help. The way ahead is for bus and metro rail operators to seamlessly invest and shore up last-mile connectivity. The focus needs to be on intermodal transport infrastructure, and appropriate governance structures to gainfully boost resources for the express need of improved mobility. The point is to design and plan a functionally thriving public transport system with well-defined modes supporting the main network. An integrated multimodal transport network can hugely improve both ease of business and pleasure. Krishtina D’Silva Guest Editor | Urban Transport News [email protected] “There’s the power of data, the collection, then determining how we will use it to make decisions more quickly.” Editorial Advisory Board Dr. Vinay Maitri, Ph. D. Professor School of Planning & Architecture, New Delhi Dr. Gopalakrishnan C., Ph. D. Advisor (Strategic Planning) Ministry of Works, Municipalities Affairs & Urban Planning © All rights reserved. Contents of this publication may not be reproduced without written consent of the publisher. For reprint, circulation in outside India, please contact: [email protected] Digitally published from New Delhi, India. Disclaimer: The facts and opinions expressed by the authors/contributors here do not reflect the views of editorial team or editorial board of Urban Transport News/Urban Transport Infrastructure Magazine. WWW.URBANTRANSPORTNEWS.COM Dr. Surabhi Singh, Ph. D. Associate Professor IMS Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh Sanjam Sahi Gupta Director Sitara Shipping Limited Ar. Priyanka Kumar, M. Plan. Urban Planner Regional Centre for Urban & Environmental Studies, Lucknow Adv. Sanndhya Pillai, L.Lb Maritime Lawyer Director (Legal) - SSS Maritime Services & Consultants Pvt. Ltd. Ishan Chanda, M. Transp Engg. Urban Development Advisor UK India Business Council, Gurgaon