CONNECTKaro participants convened in Mumbai, India, to discuss ways in which sustainable transport and urban development can help build a brighter future for India’s cities. Photo by EMBARQ.
- Abhijit Lokre
- Ahmedabad
- Anjum Parwez
- Armin Bruck
- Ashwin Prabhu
- bicyclists
- Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation
- Bus Rapid Transit
- CEPT University
- ConnectKARO
- Delhi
- EMBARQ India
- Holger Dalkmann
- India
- Jamshyd Godrej
- Janmarg
- Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission
- Madhav Pai
- Manjula Vinjamuri
- Mriganka Saxena
- Mumbai
- pedestrians
- Public Health
- public private partnerships
- road safety
- Shreya Gadepalli
- SK Lohia
- Sudhir Krishna
- Transit Oriented Development
- Urban Development + Accessibility
- Urban Planning
- V. Ravichandar
- Ahmedabad
- air pollution
- Bus Rapid Transit
- ConnectKARO
- EMBARQ India
- greenhouse gas emissions
- India
- Janmarg
- Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission
- Land Use
- Madhav Pai
- Mumbai
- National Urban Transport Policy
- Quality of Life
- road safety
- sustainable transportation
- urban development
- Urban Development + Accessibility
- WRI
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The Context
Ahmedabad is the largest city in Gujarat state in the western part of India. Formerly known as Manchester of India for its textile industry, the city has become a major information technology center and is the fastest growing city of India, and the third fastest growing city worldwide.
Ahmedabad - Janmarg
The People's Way
Ahmedabad launched South Asia’s first complete BRT in October 2009. Janmarg, which means “the people’s way” in Gujarati, focuses the city’s massive growth into sustainable, high-capacity bus corridors. By 2014, Janmarg will serve 90 kilometers and carry
175,000 daily passengers.
Last week, Prajna Rao, a transport planner at the Centre for Sustainable Transport in India (a member of the EMBARQ Network, which produces this blog), posted a photographic tour of Ahmedabad’s new bus rapid transit ...
Prajna Rao is a transport planner at the Centre for Sustainable Transport in India (CST-India), a member of the EMBARQ Network, which produces this blog. She provides a photographic overview of Ahmedabad’s new BRT system, ...
Ahmedabad has set a new standard for Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) in India. That was the consensus at a recent capacity-building workshop educating other city officials about the planning and implementation of the local ...
