Authors:Â Archana Bhalla, Stuti Jain, Sanjana Goel, Rishabh Jain
Abstract: As is the trend worldwide, India is undergoing rapid urbanization. This means not only that more people than ever before will be living and working in cities, but also that more people and more goods will be making more and longer trips in urban areas. The costs of increasing dependence on cars is resulting in expensive road building and maintenance, clogged and congested roads, high levels of energy consumption along with its economic and environmental costs, worsening air and noise pollution, traffic accidents and social inequities that arise when the poor find transportation services increasingly unaffordable. The most widely used mode of conveyance of public transport in Delhi is “busesâ€. Thus buses form a backbone of the transportation system in Delhi and serve about half of the travel demand while it constitutes less than 1 % of the total vehicle fleet of Delhi. In spite of this, it does not receive any preferential treatment in terms of traffic management, dedicated lanes, and better upkeep/ maintenance of vehicles resulting in that common man who can afford even slightly is shifting from buses to their own vehicles. It may be two-wheelers or four wheelers or even bicycles because of which the number of vehicles on the roads are increasing which is leading to further lowering of speed, congestion, increase in pollution level etc. Strategies to combat these problems would include reducing the emissions per vehicle kilometre travelled and the total number of kilometres travelled. Road congestion may be reduced by the use of good public transport management, traffic management and bike pools etc. In this paper, we have conducted a survey based on a structured questionnaire for bikepooling
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