Urban mobility has always been any cities problem in any
developing country’s major city. Today, India faces the same. All city
administrators need new traffic and urban mobility systems that can manage the
vehicle hassles in unplanned cities. Traffic issues arise due to improper
planning while or before developing a city. Along with slums, it is one of the
biggest problems faced by urban areas in the country today. Delhi is no
exception and today, Arvind Kejriwal’s AAP government has brought in the
odd-even traffic rule that the entire state is suffering from. Many have gone
on to call it illogical and ineffective, and facts reflect the same.
“The basic idea of pan-city development is to apply digital
technology to existing transportation so as to bring in an efficiency
component, reduce transaction cost and travel time. It is not meant to be
capital intensive. It could be having digital bike docks as in the case of
London or Manhattan or provision of real-time traffic information along roads
as Barcelona does at its bus stops,” said urban expert Saswat Bandyopadhyay,
professor of planning at the Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology
University.
“We are hoping to procure these over the next three years
using our own funds and will improve the traffic efficiency under the Smart
City mission,” said Krishnan Kumar. With that, it is quite evident that what
Kumar has proposed in Bhubaneshwar is being sought, will be proposed and
strenuously backed up in Delhi. Smart cities can certainly avert these problems
and it is expected that it will happen soon and the [painful; odd-even rule
will be eradicated.
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