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16 Nov 2010

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“…………… what was the question?”

If you ask someone living in one of our medium or large cities to name the most serious civic problem faced by his city, he will more likely than not say it is the growing problem of traffic.

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Sujit Patwardhan

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Jam Session

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Air Pollution and Mobility

28 Sep 2010

Air Pollution in the Month of October is Getting Worse - is Delhi Ready?

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For the city of Delhi, an air quality index methodology was proposed and applied for six criteria pollutants - PM10, PM2.5, CO, NOx, SO2, and Ozone and analyzed for trends in the past three years of data. The AQI is reported on a scale of 0 to 500 and subdivided into six colored bins for easy understanding of the common person and the media.

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Dr. Sarath Guttikunda

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Dispersing Pollution

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Assessment of historic trend in mobility and energy use in India transportation sector using bottom-up approach

Transportation mobility in India has increased significantly in the past decades. From1970 to 2000, motorized mobility (passenger-km) has risen by 888%, compared with an 88% population growth. This contributed to many energy and environmental issues, and an energy strategy incorporates efficiency improvement and other measures needs to be designed.

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01/05/2009

Author(s): Nan Zhou, Michael A. McNeil

Source: Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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Diesel, Energy Efficiency, Transport, Public Transport, Mobility Planning, Energy, India, Vehicles

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