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Interesting Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) System for Amritsar murali772 - 25-FEB-2013
Punjab Infrastructure Development Board, Dept of Local Govt - Punjab, and Municipal Corpn of Amritsar are looking at this novel concept, initially over a 3.53 km stretch |
Cyclist officials of Mysore city murali772 - 18-JUL-2012
The CM's brief tour of the city on Monday affected the top officials' plans to cycle to work. But DC P S Vastrad, who has initiated it, managed to pedal to work even as he managed to adhere to protocol requiring him to tail the CM traveling in his official car. |
Bus stand locations, easy walking for bus change @ Marathahalli silkboard - 2-MAY-2012
We have been making very slow progress on putting together this LAMP. Why not do an ideation exercise as part of the project online. For the LAMP, we talked of working on designated entry points to the local area, as in Whitefield. Take Marathahalli. |
New SMART Prize for New Mobility Entrepreneurs idontspam - 8-MAR-2012
ANNOUNCING MOBI-PRIZE |
How do you go to your local shopping area? silkboard - 8-FEB-2012* Walk * Two wheeler * Car * Bus * Cycle * Home delivery |
LAMP for a suburban area - starter list silkboard - 6-FEB-2012
LAMP concept may be essential very soon in all suburban areas to deal with traffic growth & work over disappointing efforts on multi-modal integration so far. Here is a starter list compiled by Naveen based on our discussions, Sanjeev's notes in multi-modal integration, and mantri mall study done by researchers at CiSTUP.
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Whitefield Local Area Mobility Plan (LAMP) silkboard - 6-FEB-2012
So far, all mobility planning in Metropolitan area of Bangalore happens with central city in mind. However, Bengaluru's future is mostly in the hands of its suburban areas and satellite towns. Planning for mobility for a suburban area has a few different angles to it. There are few clear categories of needs, Examples of these, in Whitefield/Mahadevapura context |
types of public bus transport operations murali772 - 28-NOV-2011
Definitions extracted from M V Act 1988 (http://www.tn.gov.in/sta/Mvact1988.pdf) |
Symposium at CiSTUP on Challenges for Smart Cities in India, RSVP by Dec 2. silkboard - 25-NOV-2011
CiSTUP invites Praja.in members & readers to the symposium on 'Socio-Economic Challenges for Smart Cities in India' |
Sustainable Mobility Award 2011 - Praja get special recognition from Volvo silkboard - 15-OCT-2011
Praja got special recognition from Volvo at Sustainable Mobility Award 2011. Several Praja projects were nominated for the award, and all of them were appreciated together through the special recognition for Praja (the concept!) itself. |