Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri has said that India is likely to experience a behavioural change in urban mobility in the aftermath of the ongoing coronavirus disease (covid-19) pandemic. He noted that this crisis also presents an opportunity to guide the recovery of urban transport towards long-term development goals. He also said the future of mobility is about striving towards environment-friendly, integrated, automated and personalised travel on demand.
Puri has stated that new advancements, like intelligent transportation systems and traffic management applications, are in the pipeline for enhanced mobility in major cities. He said investment in infrastructure to address more effective circulation and interchange of people and goods will have an economic multiplier effect, both in job-creation in the present and boosting growth and productivity in the future.
The ministry has issued a detailed advisory, as to how the nation needs to move ahead in these testing times. It rests on three key pillars, namely, promotion of public transport system, leveraging technological advancements and penetration of NMT systems in the urban transport paradigm. He noted that various studies show that about 16-57 per cent of urban commuters are pedestrian and about 30-40 per cent use bicycles depending on the size of the city. Considering this as an opportunity, he said elevating the priority of these modes gives travellers another private vehicle alternative, which is clean, safe, secured particularly if it is integrated with other modes and affordable for all.
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