UTTIPEC at the Sustainable Mobility Event by Shell Foundation in London on 15th-16th Nov 2012

UTTIPEC represented today to speak on Transit Oriented Development, Sustainable Mobility and the role of UTTIPEC in Delhi - at the Sustainable Mobility Event by Shell Foundation in Southbank Centre, London on 15th-16th Nov 2012.

Soon, walking down East Delhi’s streets may be a treat for the eyes

Published in News Paper  "NATIONAL"  |  New Delhi Edition

NEW DELHI,June 30, 2012

Staff Reporter

Walking down East Delhi’s streets may be a treat for the eyes soon with the East Delhi Municipal Corporation planning to hire landscape architects and urban planners to change the way its streets are designed. Terming the current approach “straight-jacket”, Municipal Commissioner S. S. Yadav said: “We will soon hire expertise from outside since the approach we have in-house is very straight-jacket.”

A week ago, the EDMC conducted a sensitisation workshop for all its engineers for the implementation of Street Design Guidelines of the Unified Traffic and Transportation Infrastructure (Planning and Engineering) Centre. This was in acco- rdance with the directive iss-ued earlier by the office of the Lieutenant-Governor and the Chief Secretary to all civic bodies to make changes in the current ways of executing road projects and to conform to the UTTIPEC guidelines.

Following a meeting on on-street parking, Mr. Yadav said that the Public Works Department is in-charge of implementing the new plan for on-street parking on Vikas Marg and the Corporation will support the same.

In 2009, the UTTIPEC had issued Street Design Guidelines to be followed on all city’s roads to make them safe and user friendly to all road users such as street vendors, pedestrians, women and children. The guidelines also provide ways in which persons with disabilities could be made to feel safe in negotiating a street.

Workshop with EDMC officials on Street Design Guidelines.

-Published in Hindustan Times

UTTIPEC at WALKABILITY FORUM: Better Air Quality and Livable Cities

Mr.Ashok Bhattacharjee, Director, UTTIPEC delivers the key note address

http://cleanairinitiative.org/portal/node/8461

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cai-asia/sets/72157630266819674/

Mr Ashok Bhattacharjee, Director Planning, Member Secretary, UTTIPEC, who gave a keynote on UTTIPEC’s activities and successes in Delhi and set the tone for the ‘cities speak’ session said that the biggest deterrent in promoting  walkability is the land use planning which tends to adopt the western model of sprawl development. Providing more road space will only induce vehicular growth and movement. According to their study, solutions lie by addressing:

1)   Last mile connectivity with public transport

2)   Multi-modal integration

3)   Transit oriented development

4)   Efficient Street Design for comprehensive street design guidelines

5)   Public outreach programs to garner public opinion.

6)   Clear policy, guidelines and projects for Integrating Urban land Use and Transport should be established

7)   Sorting conflicts between parking space and pedestrian space.

8)   Providing Pedestrian facilities like crossings – e.g. IRC guidelines recommend crossover every 200m; however, cities usually provides >500m

10) Lack of benchmarking for pedestrian facilities is the problem that needs to be addressed.

Full Report: http://cleanairinitiative.org/portal/sites/default/files/agenda/CAI_Asia_walkability_forum_report_.pdf

"Sustainable Transport for Resilient Cities" - Talk by Prof. Peter Newman, Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University, Western Australia.

A Presentation cum Talk was organized by UTTIPEC, DDA at the India International Centre on 13 January 2011 on the topic of: "Sustainable Transport for Resilient Cities" by Prof. Peter Newman, Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University, Western Australia.

A copy of this presentation is available on the UTTIPEC website:

http://uttipec.nic.in/writereaddata/mainlinkFile/File253.pdf