Yulu: Moving Towards a Sustainable Future

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 445-456
Author(s):  
Deepika Upadhyay ◽  
Geetanjali Purswani ◽  
Pooja Jain
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Short Distance ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Alternative Mode ◽  
Final Destination ◽  
Metropolitan Cities ◽  
The World ◽  
Bike Sharing ◽  
Distance Travel

The rapidly rising rate of urbanization, which is closely linked to economic growth, has exposed the world to several challenges such as inequality, environmental degradation, traffic congestion, infrastructural concerns and social conflicts. Therefore, urban sustainability has emerged as one of the most debatable discussions across the world. The existing network of transportation can no longer keep up with the growing demand in metropolitan cities. Short distance travel has become an unresolved issue for daily commuters. The case presents how MMVs have emerged as an alternative mode of transport for resolving issues of daily commuters regarding the first-mile connectivity, last-mile connectivity and short distance travel to reach their final destination. MMVs are basically light-weight vehicles which occupy less space on road. These vehicles include bicycles, e-bikes, skateboards, hoverboards and other battery-operated vehicles. The case narrates the journey of Yulu, a dockless bike-sharing venture which promoted the concept of green consumerism among the daily commuters at affordable rates. The venture initially started in the IT city of Bangalore and later expanded its operations to other cities such as Pune, Navi Mumbai, Gurugram and Bhubaneswar. The speciality of this venture is that it offers a sustainable solution to ever-increasing problems of traffic congestion and aggravating air pollution issues in metropolitan cities. Dilemma: How to offer a sustainable solution to the ever-increasing problem of traffic congestion and aggravating air pollution due to rising vehicular traffic? How to make short distance travel affordable and more convenient for daily commuters? Theory: Three pillars of sustainable development. Type of Case: Problem solving applied case. Protagonist: Present. Discussion and Case Questions: What strategies should be employed by the start-up to make it a more popular form of commute? How can the increasing rate of damage to the vehicles be brought down? How does organization structure and cluster management practices of Yulu help it to become more sustainable? How can the regulatory bodies and government promote and adopt such start-ups in their urban planning projects?

scholarly journals Identification of Prior Factors Influencing the Mode Choice of Short Distance Travel

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ming Li ◽  
Guohua Song ◽  
Ying Cheng ◽  
Lei Yu
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Household Income ◽  
Short Distance ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Mode Choice ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Willingness To Change ◽  
Distance Travel

Short distance trips are defined as any trips shorter than or equal to 5 kilometers, which have been found to be a big contributor to the traffic congestion problem. This paper is intended to analyze factors that influence the mode choice of short distance travels in order to help reduce short distance trips by cars. A survey is conducted at two typical kinds of residential areas, one with a high proportion of short distance car trips and another one with a low proportion. Then, by applying the structural equation modeling, it is found that the age, the household income, and the vehicle ownerships have a significant effect on the mode choice of short distance travels. Besides, among residents of the same type (same age, household income, and vehicle ownerships) in surveyed areas, those in the area with a better green-mode travel environment account for a higher proportion choosing the green mode than those in other areas. Based on this result, it is concluded that a better green-mode travel environment leads to a higher proportion of green-mode travels. In the end, the paper shows residents’ stated willingness to change travel modes from cars to the green mode.

scholarly journals Prediction of Bike Sharing Demand

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 219-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Purnima Sachdeva ◽  
K N Sarvanan
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Linear Combination ◽  
Random Forests ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Health Consciousness ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
The World ◽  
Bike Sharing

Bike sharing systems have been gaining prominence all over the world with more than 500 successful systems being deployed in major cities like New York, Washington, London. With an increasing awareness of the harms of fossil based mean of transportation, problems of traffic congestion in cities and increasing health consciousness in urban areas, citizens are adopting bike sharing systems with zest. Even developing countries like India are adopting the trend with a bike sharing system in the pipeline for Karnataka. This paper tackles the problem of predicting the number of bikes which will be rented at any given hour in a given city, henceforth referred to as the problem of ‘Bike Sharing Demand’. In this vein, this paper investigates the efficacy of standard machine learning techniques namely SVM, Regression, Random Forests, Boosting by implementing and analyzing their performance with respect to each other.This paper also presents two novel methods, Linear Combination and Discriminating Linear Combination, for the ‘Bike Sharing Demand’ problem which supersede the aforementioned techniques as good estimates in the real world.

scholarly journals The More Stringent, the Better? Rationing Car Use in Bogotá with Moderate and Drastic Restrictions

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 516-534 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge A Bonilla
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Carbon Monoxide ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
License Plate ◽  
Vehicle Ownership ◽  
Gasoline Consumption ◽  
Car Use ◽  
Driving Restrictions ◽  
The World ◽  
Using Data

Abstract Rationing car use based on license plate number has become a popular policy in several cities around the world to address traffic congestion and air pollution. This paper studies the effects of the moderate and drastic driving restrictions imposed as part of the Pico y Placa program on car use and air pollution in Bogotá. Using data on ambient carbon monoxide, gasoline consumption, and vehicle sales and registrations, no evidence of an improvement in air quality or a reduction in car use is found in either phase of the program. On the contrary, there is some indication that, relative to the moderate phase, gasoline consumption, vehicle ownership, and carbon monoxide in the morning peak tended to increase slightly when drastic restrictions were implemented.

scholarly journals Partial reduction of air pollution in India during COVID-19 lockdown

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 42-45
Author(s):  
Gonamanda Satya Sree ◽  
Kapilavayi Venkata ◽  
Basava Ranjitha ◽  
Boggu Jagan Mohan Reddy
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Partial Reduction ◽  
World Economic Forum ◽  
Corona Virus ◽  
Metropolitan Cities ◽  
The World ◽  
World Economic ◽  
Day By Day

India has been struggling with pollution with the increase in population day by day. In fact, as per the World Economic Forum in February 2020, India became the sixth out of 10 world’s most air-polluted cities. On March 24, 2020. India has declared initially lockdown 1 i.e. 21 days amid the extent of the dangerous Corona Virus (Covid-19), it is the largest lockdown in the world encompassing 130 crores of population. With that several people were at their houses, traffic has been drastically decreased, construction and factories are stopped for a while during this lockdown, foremost to a significant reduction in smog as well as the air pollution. Given that, we have studied the environmental pollution in metropolitan cities of India during the first lockdown. The pollution and smog in the air were dropped drastically in all metro cities because of the lockdown in India

scholarly journals Repositioning Bikes with Carrier Vehicles and Bike Trailers in Bike Sharing Systems

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (16) ◽  
pp. 7227
Author(s):  
Xinghua Zheng ◽  
Ming Tang ◽  
Yuechang Liu ◽  
Zhengzheng Xian ◽  
Hankz Hankui Zhuo
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Fuel Cost ◽  
Multiple Data ◽  
The World ◽  
Bike Sharing ◽  
Multiple Data Sets ◽  
The Right

Bike sharing systems (BSSs) are widely adopted in major cities of the world due to traffic congestion and carbon emissions. Although there have been approaches to exploit either bike trailers via crowdsourcing or carrier vehicles to reposition bikes in the “right” stations in the “right” time, they did not jointly consider the usage of both bike trailers and carrier vehicles. In this paper, we aim to take advantage of both bike trailers and carrier vehicles to reduce the loss of demand by determining whether bike trailers or carrier vehicles (or both) should be used. In addition, we also would like to maximize the overall profit with regard to the crowdsourcing of bike trailers and the fuel cost of carrier vehicles. In the experiment, we exhibit that our approach outperforms baselines in multiple data sets from bike sharing companies.

Air Pollution in Asia and Its Effect on Human Health

2018 ◽  
pp. 19-29
Author(s):  
Ahmet Ozan Gezerman ◽  
Burcu Didem Çorbacıoğlu
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Natural Gas ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Mortality Rates ◽  
Industrial Facilities ◽  
Pollution Levels ◽  
Metropolitan Cities ◽  
The World ◽  
Close Relationship

Although continuous efforts to monitor and mitigate air pollution are being made, it is still prevalent in most countries in the world. Major contributors include fossil fuel exhaust in metropolitan cities from industrial facilities and vehicular emissions. Use of renewable energy and natural gas have played a part in reducing air pollution; however, increasing populations, rampant urbanization, and industrialization, especially during winter months, have given rise to spikes in air pollution levels. Research shows that there is a close relationship between air pollution and mortality rates depending on respiration inadequacy. Studies show that contaminants increase respiratory afflictions in humans. Discontinuing use of fossil fuels, using appropriate burning techniques, and efficiency emission controls on vehicles have been proven to reduce air pollution levels.

A Method of Bike Sharing Demand Forecasting

2014 ◽  
Vol 587-589 ◽  
pp. 1813-1816 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao Na Liu ◽  
Jian Jun Wang ◽  
Teng Fei Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Short Distance ◽  
Demand Forecasting ◽  
Public Transport System ◽  
Urban Public Transport ◽  
Bike Sharing ◽  
Private Car ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Turn Over ◽  
Distance Travel ◽  
Travel Rate

Bike sharing system is an important part of urban public transport system, mainly to undertake the function of connection and transfer with bus system, and connection with private car and satisfy the demand of citizen short-distance travel, and other functions. Setting bike sharing rental point is according to the planning of urban comprehensive transportation, using data on the residents travel , including travel rate, traffic structure, etc. and then to predict the proportion of future bike sharing to the total amount of travel, finally obtain bike sharing overall scale combining Bike sharing turn over rate.

Positive Aspects of COVID 19 Pandemic: A Blessing in Disguis

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (SPL1) ◽  
pp. 187-191
Author(s):  
Anjankar Ashish P ◽  
Anjankar Vaibhav P ◽  
Anjankar Anil J ◽  
Kanyal Lata
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Heart Attack ◽  
Traffic Accidents ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Community Action ◽  
Crime Rates ◽  
Road Traffic Accidents ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Positive Side ◽  
The World

COVID 19 is undeniably one of the deadliest diseases that humanity has ever seen. It continues to affect the lives and livelihood of people appallingly across the world. Maximum discussions focus towards the apprehension of catching the infection, dwelling in homes, overpopulated nursing homes and shut down of all kinds. But, here let’s discuss the positive side of COVID 19 pandemic.As COVID 19 has spread its influence all over the world, affected countries have either announced lockdown or have implemented severe restrictions in their respective countries. Because of this, everyone dwells in their homes. Thus, exercising social distancing and functioning from home. All of the above is directed at restricting the transmission of coronavirus and expectantly ostracising the fatality from COVID 19. These transformations have also brought about some unanticipated emanations; some good things have come out of the pandemic as well. Positive effects of COVID 19 are seen on reduced road traffic, and road traffic accidents lowered levels of air pollution which has to lead to lowered heart attack rates and rejuvenating environment. Crime rates have fallen, and expenses are reduced in most places. Community action, communication amongst families, behaviour, sanitation, hygiene, online and distance education has positively impacted by COVID 19 pandemic. COVID 19 despite a bane for humans, can be thought of a boon for living beings. The habitats and elements have been purified with the stringent use of petrochemical products. To breathe fresh air and to consume purified water is a boon by itself. Now, it is time for humans to lead a caring life to every bounty bestowed on them by Nature. This thoughtful and considerate life will give hope for a healthy, stress-free life.

The Analysis Of Service Quality Using Importance Performance Analysis For Mrt Jakarta

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
Rina Nur Chasanah ◽  
Andreas Wijaya
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Performance Analysis ◽  
Service Quality ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Service Level ◽  
Public Infrastructure ◽  
Five Dimension ◽  
Quality Theory

Public infrastructure and congestion issues become salient problems in Indonesia. According to INRIX Global Traffic Scoreboard (2018): Jakarta was ranked as twelfth worst in the world. Air quality also becoming another issues that derived from traffic congestion causing air pollution. To mitigate this issue, government has been established MRT Jakarta in 2019. This study aims to evaluate and improving service level of Moda Raya Terpadu (MRT) in order to encourage more people using public transportation, moreover altering people using public transportation would reduce the amount of fossil fuels and reducing bad air pollution for a better climate. Methodolgy of the research using service quality theory with five dimension from Parasuraman et. al, and extended in Importance Performance Analysis (IPA) method. Therefore, data was distributed using questionnaire with 18 item measurement and 102 respondents was collected. As a result, tangibility, reliability, and responsiveness dimension had been classified in quadrant one, followed assurance dimension in quadrant two, however empathy dimension had been measured in quadrant four and indicates to be improved.

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