Recently, Kerala won the award for the city with the most ‘Sustainable Transport System’.
Context
Recently, Kerala won the award for the city with the most ‘Sustainable Transport System’.
Key-Points
- It will be presented by the Ministry of Housing and Urban affairs.
- The award is given in recognition of transport facilities in various states and union territories of India.
- The award was presented in honor of the projects initiated - such as the Kochi Metro, Water Metro (Water-based metro), and E-mobility - to improve transportation services in the city of Kochi.
- The creation of the Kochi Open Mobility Network, which digitized and integrated various transport resources, also contributed to the award winning.
What is Sustainable Transport?
- It refers to any ‘green’ travel routes that have little impact on the environment. It is about balancing our present and future needs.
- Examples of sustainable transport include walking, cycling, transportation, carpooling, car sharing, and green vehicles.
Significance of sustainable transport
- Improves Air Quality
- Replacing many separate emissions-producing vehicles with fewer transit vehicles that generally emit less pollution on a per person basis.
- Reduce Emissions
- By moving more people in fewer vehicles, public transportation can reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
- Public transportation produces less greenhouse gas per passenger than a private vehicle.
- Reduce Congestion
- As well as reducing greenhouse gas emissions by facilitating integrated development, public transportation also reduces congestion and traffic congestion.
- By reducing traffic congestion, transportation reduces carbon emissions from traffic jams.
- Promotes Health
- Because sustainable transportation reduces emissions and air pollution, it also promotes public health.
- Other moderate modes of transportation, such as cycling and walking, also provide exercise for passengers while eliminating zero emissions. This improves their health, and that of the whole community.
E- Mobility
- Electro-mobility is the use of electric cars, as well as e-bikes or pedelecs, electric motorbikes, e-buses and e-trucks.
- The common feature of all of them is that they are fully or partly driven electrically, have a means of storing energy on board, and obtain their energy mainly from the power grid.
- E-mobility comes with zero or ultra-low tailpipe emissions of local air pollutants and much lower noise, and, by being one of the most innovative clusters for the automotive sector, can provide a major boost to the economic and industrial competitiveness, attracting investments, especially in countries.
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