Public Transport

Reducing air pollution from urban transport: companion

This book intends to assist in the design of appropriate strategies for controlling the impacts of urban air pollution, from mobile sources. It considers only the direct air impacts of surface transport, excluding aviation, marine transport, non-road vehicles (such as bulldozers and mining equipment), noise pollution, habitat fragmentation, and waste disposal of scrapped vehicles.

Publication Date:

Jan 2005

Author(s): Ken Gwilliam, Masami Kojima, Todd Johnson

Source: The World Bank

Tags:

Vehicular Pollution, Alternative Fuels, Fuel Quality, Vehicle Technology, Transport, Public Transport, Urban Transport

Water Pollution

Waiting for the bus

Ahmedabad s CNG plans bureaucratised

Publication Date:

30/08/2004

Author(s): Mahesh L

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

13

Issue:

20040831

pp:

0

Tags:

CNG, Public Transport, Ahmedabad (D)

Air Pollution

A special report on the status of the implementation of the particulate reduction plan: Hyderabad

On August 14, 2003, the Hon

Publication Date:

01/08/2004

Source: Environment Pollution (Prevention & Control) Authority

Tags:

Vehicular Pollution, RSPM (PM 10), Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA), Alternative Fuels, Fuel Quality, Public Transport, Supreme Court, Hyderabad (T)

Transport

The imperative of controlling vehicle numbers and increasing access: report on public transport projects in Delhi

On January 23, 2004, the Amicus Curiae for the ongoing public interest litigation on air pollution in the National Capital Region of Delhi had submitted an IA (IA No. 226) to the Hon

Publication Date:

01/07/2004

Source: Environment Pollution (Prevention & Control) Authority

Tags:

Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA), Public Transport, Supreme Court, Delhi, Vehicles

Air Pollution

Clearing the air: How Delhi broke the logjam on air quality reforms

Role of the Supreme Court in Delhi

Publication Date:

01/04/2004

Author(s): Ruth Greenspan Bell, Kuldeep Mathur, Urvashi Narain & et al

Source: Environment

Vol:

46

Issue:

3

pp:

1

Tags:

Air Pollution, Air Pollution Control, Vehicular Pollution, Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA), CNG, Public Transport, Supreme Court, Delhi, Ruth Greenspan Bell, Kuldeep Mathur, Urvashi Narain & et al, Environment

Industry

Green sports

China and the us will be striving for an environment-friendly 2008 Olympics. Chinese science and technology minister Xu Guanhau and us energy secretary Spencer Abraham signed the Beijing Olympic

Publication Date:

14/02/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

12

Issue:

20040215

pp:

0

Tags:

Water Treatment Technology, Water Quality, Public Transport, International Cooperation, China, United States Of America (US), Sustainable Development

Air Pollution

The Delhi pollution case: Can the Supreme Court manage the environment?

Judicial activism in the Supreme Court has created major reforms in the protection of human rights and has put the court in a unique position to intervene when it sees violations of these fundamental rights.

Publication Date:

01/01/2003

Author(s): Armin Rosencranz, Michael Jackson

Source: Environmental Policy and Law

Vol:

33

Issue:

2

pp:

88

Tags:

Air Pollution, Air Pollution Control, Vehicular Pollution, Public Interest Litigation (PIL), Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA), CNG, CNG Buses, Public Transport, Supreme Court, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), CSE, Delhi, Armin Rosencranz, Michael Jackson, Environmental Policy and Law

Natural Disasters

China

Imported liquefied petroleum gas (lpg)-powered buses will ply on Beijing roads soon. The move has been directed to bring down the rising vehicular pollution and to prepare the city for hosting the

Publication Date:

14/04/2002

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Pollution Control, Vehicular Pollution, LPG, Trade, Public Transport, Imports, Asia, China

Air Pollution