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The study investigates how do the multiple modes of intra- and inter-city rail-based services (in India) take safety, green, cleanliness, and inclusivity of public transports into consideration through its planning and design and to what extent these objectives are met. Technical, financial and institutional perspectives are considered. The study also asks how these modes contribute to public health (air pollution, contiguous disease), climate change (mitigation, adaptation and resilience), pandemics (social distance, hygiene) and other disasters.
The indicators are as follows including the hard and soft infrastructures, in terms of planning, implementation and maintenance:
• Safety: Speed control, Injury, Crash, sexual safety for women, Safety inside the vehicles and at the stations
• Green: Cleaner form of fuel including the use of renewable energy
• Cleanliness: Pandemic driven factors like social distance, hygiene, both inside the vehicles and at the stations
• Inclusivity: SDG5 and SDG11, for all genders, age groups, including people with special needs, taking individual need into consideration.
Multiple public transport modes that are taken into consideration are Intra-city metro rail, Electric intercity rail (e.g. Shatabdi Express- poor peoples’ infrastructure), Semi high-speed rail (HSR) (e.g. Vande Bharat), Double decker rail , Delhi-Meerut Regional Rapid Transit System (Namo Bharat), and Hydrogen train (1200 HP). The study will use methods such as document analysis, semi-structured interviews, media report analysis and survey. In Design guidelines/ Document analysis, one report from each type; supported by semi-structured interviews with designer and/or planners, with construction companies and operators on procurement side, with users on benefits reaped side. In media report analysis, recent media reports will be studied on each type for a period of six months (considering these are very new kind of projects mostly under construction). If possible, some surveys will be carried out amongst users.
| Best Congress Paper Award | Yes |
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