 | Sustainable Approaches to Urban Transport Subjects: Built Environment; Engineering & Technology; Urban Studies; Urban Studies; Cities & Infrastructure; Planning; Civil Environmental and Geotechnical Engineering; Transport & Vehicle Engineering; Transport Planning; Transportation Engineering; Sustainable Transport Engineering; As cities become increasingly congested, current transport patterns are unsustainable: heavy in energy use, high in economic and environmental cost, and exacerbating inequity between those who can access high-speed travel and those who cannot. Good urban planning develops human-scale cities and encourages modes such as bicycles, increased zones exclusive to pedestrians within cities, and changed fiscal policies to incentivize public over private transport. Equally, it requires good engineering design to manage road use. Sustainable Approaches to Urban Transport brings together contributions from leading international experts in urban planning, transport, and governance who suggest changes to make our cities more sustainable in the face of climate change. All professionals working in transport and engineering and planning students will find an overview of a broad field in this interdisciplinary collection of essays. EDITORS Geetam Tiwari obtained her B. Arch from the University of Roorkee and Master of Urban Planning and Policy, and Ph.D. in Transport Planning and Policy, from the University of Illinois, Chicago. Currently she is MoUD Chair Professor for Transport Planning at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and Adlerbretska Guest Professor for sustainable urban transport at the Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden 2007-2010. She has extensive research experience in dealing with transportation issues of special relevance to low income countries. These include development of bus systems and road designs that would make transportation efficient and safer. She has been working in the area of traffic and transport planning focusing on pedestrians, bicycles and bus systems. She has published over 70 research papers on transportation planning and safety in national and international journals and peer reviewed seminar proceedings, as well as edited four books on transportation planning and road safety. She received the International Velocity Falco Lecture Prize, Barcelona, Spain, the Stockholm Partnerships award for local impact, innovative thinking and a potential for replication or transferability, and Centre for Excellence grant from Volvo Research and Educational Foundations (VREF), IRTE & Prince Michaels award for promoting road safety research and LMA (Lucknow Management Association) award for woman achiever, 2010. She is advisor to Urban Age series of conferences coordinated by London School of Economics since 2005. She also is editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion. Dinesh Mohan is Honorary Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Distinguished Professor Shiv Nadar University & Director Independent Council for Road Safety International. He is member of the WHO Advisory Panel on Accident Prevention. He serves on the editorial boards of 4 international journals dealing with safety. Professor Mohan has been a consultant on safety related matters to government departments in India, Nepal, Indonesia, Thailand, Bangladesh, Iraq and Libya and automotive industries including TELCO, Ashok Leyland, Volvo Trucks, Eicher Motors Ltd., Escorts Ltd., Maruti Udyog Ltd., SIAM, Bajaj Auto Ltd. and also to international organisations like the World Bank and WHO. Professor Mohan''s research includes the following areas: transportation research (safety and pollution), human tolerance biomechanics, motor-vehicle safety, road traffic injuries, childhood injuries, effectiveness of automobile safety equipment, evaluation of injuries to cyclists and motorcyclists, motorcycle helmet design, evaluation of government''s and motor-vehicle manufacturer''s standards concerning motor-vehicle safety. He is the recipient of: (1) Distinguished Career Award from the University of Delaware (USA) & Distinguished Alumnus Award 2002 from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. (2) International Research Council on Biokinetics of Impact''s 2001 Bertil Aldman Award for Outstanding Research on the Biomechanics of Impacts; (3) American Public Health Association International Distinguished Career Award in recognition of dedication and leadership in the area of injury research and teaching, with contributions and achievements that have significant and long term impact on the problem of injury prevention and control; (4) The International Velo-City Falco Lecture Prize (5) The Association for Advancement of Automotive Medicine''s 1991 Award of Merit for outstanding research in traffic safety; (6) The 1991 International Association for Accident & Traffic Medicine''s International Award and Medal for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Traffic Medicine.
CONTRIBUTORS A G Krishna Menon A G Krishna Menon is an architect, urban planner and conservation consultant practicing in Delhi for over 30 years. He has been simultaneously teaching in Delhi and in 1990 co-founded the TVB School of Habitat Studies in New Delhi, and is currently its Director. He is actively engaged in research, has contributed extensively to professional journals and several academic books. He has been actively involved in urban conservation and has been associated with the formulation of The Delhi Master Plan - 2021, The National Capital Region Master Plan - 2021 and is a Member of several statutory Committees set up by the Government. Arif Hasan Arif Hasan is an architect/planner in private practice in Karachi. He studied architecture at the Oxford Polytechnic and on his return to Karachi in 1968, established an independent practice which slowly evolved into dealing with urban planning and development issues. He has been a consultant and advisor to many local and foreign CBOs, national and international NGOs, and bilateral and multilateral donor agencies. Since 1982, he has been involved with the Orangi Pilot Project (OPP) and is the founder Chairman of the Urban Resource Centre (URC), Karachi, since its inception in 1989. The OPP is an informal settlement upgrading project whose development is managed and funded by local communities. The URC is a research and advocacy organization supporting communities against eviction and against gentrification and/or degradation of Karachi''s inner city. Arif Hasan has taught at Pakistani and European universities, served on juries of international architectural and development competitions, and is the author of a number of books. He was a celebrity speaker at the Union of International Architects Congress in Brighton in 1987 and has been a member of the Steering Committee of the Aga Khan Award for two cycles. He is currently on the board of several international journals He has received a number of awards for his work including the UN Year for the Shelterless Memorial Award of the Japanese Government (1990), the Prince Claus Award of the Netherlands Government (2000), and the Hilal-i-Imtiaz of the Government of Pakistan (2001). Recently, he has been given a Life Time Achievement Award by the Institute of Architects, Pakistan (2003). The Orangi Project-Research and Training Institute, of which Arif Hasan is Chairman, received the British Housing Foundation''s World Habitat Award in 2002. Carlos Daganzo Carlos F. Daganzo has a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (Transportation)from the University of Michigan is currently the Robert Horonjeff Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He is best known for his contributions to econometrics, network theory, logistics, port operations and traffic flow. He is Director of the UC Berkeley Center for Future Urban Transport and associated with the Center''s Congestion Mitigation through Control Strategies, and Adapting to Urban Form research areas. Has developed games and simulations to explain how gridlock develops and how to prevent it, how simulations solve complex optimal facility location problems, how traffic queues are created, why does the discharge flow from a bottleneck drop after queue formation, and an explanation why when you drive out of a traffic jam you can find that nothing was apparently causing it. Carlos Dora Carlos Dora is an environmental health policy expert with WHO, where he leads the development of new approaches to impact assessment that include both environment and health. He presently is involved in a series of pilot projects testing new impact assessment approaches in developing countries of Africa and Asia. As a medical doctor he first worked to developed quality primary health care in Latin America. He later completed a PhD at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine investigating diet and non-communicable diseases, with a developing country emphasis. He then moved to the WHO''s European Centre for Environment and Health, where he dealt with a range of environmental health issues, including health impacts of Chernobyl and depleted uranium and capacity building in environmental epidemiology. He then went on to create a new WHO programme on the health implications of transport policies and contributed to developing an inter-governmental plan of action for healthy transport. He has since led the development of the health aspects of a new Protocol on Strategic Environment Assessments, to the Espoo convention on EIA. A former senior policy analyst for the WHO Director General''s office, his research work included models for HIA of transport scenarios, and the interplay of mass media, government and health care discourses in risk communication strategies. Dinesh Mohan Dinesh Mohan obtained his BTech in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, followed by a Masters degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from the University of Delaware and then a PhD in Biomechanics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He started his research career working on vibrations of anisotropic plates and moved on to mechanical properties of human aortic tissue. This was followed by work on head, chest and femur injury tolerance, injuries in human free falls, effectiveness of helmets, child seats and the first evaluation of airbags in real world crashes. This background helped him to work on epidemiology of road traffic crashes and injuries in rural India, helmet design, pedestrian, bicycle and motorcycle crash modelling, and technological aids for the disabled. Concerned with mobility and safety of people outside the car he is trying to integrate these issues within a broader framework of sustainable transport policies, urban transport options and people''s right to access and safety as a fundamental human right. Recognised as a distinguished alumnus by the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and received the International Distinguished Career Award from the American Public Hea |
