Sustainable Transport: BRT experiences from Mexico and India

Sustainable Development in India: Perspectives Sustainable Development: Learnings and Perspectives from India

1 In 1972, the then Prime Minister of India, Mrs. Indira Gandhi emphasized, at the UN Conference on Human Environment at Stockholm, that the removal of poverty is an integral part of the goal of an environmental strategy for the world. The concepts of interrelatedness, of a shared planet, of global citizenship, and of ‘spaceship earth’ cannot be restricted to environmental issues alone. They ap...

Poverty and sustainable transport

VisIt: Experiences with Sustainable Software

Visualization tools have long been fundamental to the process of scientific discovery. Nowhere is this more true than in the field of high-performance simulation, where data sets now run into the tens of petabytes in size. As the growth of simulation data has exploded in the last decade, so too has the need for scalable and nimble tools to provide insight into these complex results. At the same...

Intelligent BRT in Tehran

an intelligent BRT system is necessary when communities looking for new ways to use high capacity rapid transit at a reduced cost.This paper will describe the intelligent control system that works with Datacenter. With the help of GPS system, the data center can monitor the situation of each bus and bus station. Through RFID technology, bus station and traffic light can transfer data with bus a...

Non-motorized Transport and Sustainable Development: Evidence from Calcutta

The important role that non-motorized transport plays in urban sustainability is discussed with particular reference to the developing world and to the links between environmental and poverty issues. The significance of non-motorized transport in terms of reduced pollution, income maintenance for the poor and providing transport for vulnerable groups is stressed and placed within the general co...