Delhi revisited

Ahmad, Sohail; Balaban, Osman; Doll, Christopher; Dreyfus, Magali

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2012.12.006

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“…Dhaka was established nearly 400 years ago [39]. The location of earlier settlements was exceptionally strategic due to its accessibility, water communication and trading routes.…”

Section: Historical Growth and Urban Planningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transforming Urban Dichotomies and Challenges of South Asian Megacities: Rethinking Sustainable Growth of Dhaka, Bangladesh

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Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, is the eleventh largest megacity city in the world, with a population of 18.2 million people living in an area of 1528 km 2 . This city profile traces the trajectories of its urban development to becoming a megacity and characterizes its emerging challenges due to informal urbanization and climate change impacts. Due to rapid population growth and uncontrolled urbanization, Dhaka currently faces various socio-economic and environmental challenges in aspects such as providing basic urban services; reliable transportation framework; constant water and energy supply; effective sanitation; sustainable waste management and affordable housing. Moreover, the urban setting has further deteriorated as Dhaka is already facing various adverse impacts of climate change. Studies predict that most of the urban sectors, public health and surrounding agriculture and fisheries in Dhaka will be severely impacted by climate change. Dhaka is trying to transform its existing "incremental development" model to an "integrated development" framework in order to effectively mitigate its extreme urban challenges. The future of Dhaka city significantly relies on the successful execution of integrated infrastructure and service planning, development, and management practices, operating under an accountable and good governance system.

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“…Dhaka was established nearly 400 years ago [39]. The location of earlier settlements was exceptionally strategic due to its accessibility, water communication and trading routes.…”

Section: Historical Growth and Urban Planningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transforming Urban Dichotomies and Challenges of South Asian Megacities: Rethinking Sustainable Growth of Dhaka, Bangladesh

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“…Additionally, 64% experts believe that implementing common ticketing system is feasible in Delhi. More studies [20,22,24] share similar findings and conclude such integrated ticketing systems can improve public transport, a prime need of the current era.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 69%

Binary Logistic Model for Estimation of Mode Shift into Delhi Metro

Chauhan¹,

Suman²,

Bolia³

2016

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This paper aims to study the public transport mode choice behaviour of commuters in Delhi so that appropriate strategies to incentivize the use of public transport can be developed. We examine the efficacy of a multivariate statistical modelling approach to predict the probability of non-metro commuters to shift to the Delhi metro. We also analyse the reasons for this shift from private motor vehicles (PMVs) and buses. Data is collected through a survey of the metro commuters over various metro lines. A binomial logistic regression model is formulated to predict whether existing metro users have shifted from buses or are new additions to public transport shifting from PMVs. The model is validated well through several methods. The model analysis reveals that 57% of the metro users have shifted from buses and 28.8% from PMVs. The shift is more amongst females than males.

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“…Sridharan (2011) has precisely highlighted spatial inequalities and the politics of urban spaces, using the case of other metropolitan cities in India. Moreover, integrating informal settlements with planned one is a difficult task and poses one of the major challenges in the sustainable urban futures in Delhi (Ahmad, 2011;Ahmad & Choi, 2011;Ahmad, Balaban, Doll, & Dreyfus, 2013;Ahmad, Sridharan, & Kono, 2012;Pugh, 1991;Sivam, 2003). Inappropriate conversion has also led to unbalancing the eco-system and increased urban heat island effect.…”

Section: Discussion and Policy Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 96%