Policy Wise

Policy Wise has argued previously that ”it is the dynamics of competition whose benefits are likely to be far more relevant in assessing the overall net benefits of NANO”. Barely a month after the launch of Nano, TATA group has announced its support for a car which would run on compressed air with zero emissions.
The [...]

(Co authored with Pratik Mhatre.)

It is time the issue of urban transport is addressed in a holistic manner.
Five years ago, Ratan Tata made a tryst with destiny. He promised a car for Rs one lakh-a people’s car-and he has delivered. The new Tata Nano has been widely praised for its indigenous design, engineering skills [...]

(Co-authored with fellow Policy Wise contributor Pratik)

Back in the days when Doordarshan ruled the airwaves, if you tuned in during the weather forecast, you wouldn’t be completely off the mark if you thought that India’s urban regions comprised solely of Delhi, Calcutta, Bombay, and Madras – conveniently located in four corners of [...]

 (Admin note: This is a guest post by Pragmatic)
The term itself is a misnomer in many ways. Which transport system in India is not public? The ubiquitous auto rickshaw is used as a “hop-in and hop-out” coach in many parts of India, operating with a fixed tariff rate on predetermined routes. In Udaipur (Rajasthan), a [...]

A proposed congestion charge in U.K has led to much resistance among commuters.
A transport ministry proposal last year for a road congestion charge that could see drivers pay up to $2 a mile has sparked an online revolt, with motorists crashing part of the British prime minister’s Web site Monday night in [...]

It may seem a bit obvious, but Science News has a story on research on correlation between urban sprawl and obesity.

[University of British Columbia Professor Lawrence] Frank is part of an emerging area of cross-disciplinary science that’s examining the relationship between the shapes of our cities and the shapes of our bodies.He and other researchers [...]

In spite of the fact that humans occupy less than 1% of the total land available on Earth, land scarcity is an omnipresent urban reality. Partly due to urban aggregation behavior and availability of conducive habitable spaces, the fight for space especially in urban areas has been intense. Be it the ever-growing slums in Mumbai [...]