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India to import electric locomotives from Japan
The Japanese succeeded in pushing India into having its proposed western freight corridor run on electric. Did it also push Delhi into buying its new generation advanced technology electric locomotives for the Indian Railways?
- Date:
- 31/12/2008
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- Hindu (New Delhi)
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Blueline phase-out from May 2009
All 2,700 of them to go by March 2010, promises Delhi’s new Transport Minister
‘A hundred Blueline buses would be phased out every month’
‘More DTC buses to be inducted to meet the needs of the city’
- Date:
- 27/12/2008
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- Hindu (New Delhi)
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Flyers shouldn't pay for carbon footprint
The government has opposed moves to impose carbon tax on the aviation sector as well as the shipping industry that would make the consumer bear the burden. Global transport accounts for about 14% of the total emissions worldwide. But the world is still undecided about whom to blame for them.
- Date:
- 24/12/2008
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- Times Of India (New Delhi)
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- Feature Articles
Global temperature responses to current emissions from the transport sectors
Transport affects climate directly and indirectly through mechanisms that cause both warming and cooling of climate, and the effects operate on very different timescales.
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- Dec 2008
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- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Vol: 105 Issue: 49 pp: 19154-19159
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Money talks
Economic incentives are – if used appropriately – among the most effective tools for reducing CO2 emissions from road transport, according to a study conducted in the Nordic countries.
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- Dec 2008
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- Acid News Issue: 4
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- Reports and Documents
The Return of the Intercity Bus: The Decline and Recovery of Scheduled Service to American Cities, 1960 - 2007
This study assesses the changing status of intercity bus service throughout the United States between 1960 and 2007. Drawing on data from more than 5,000 arrivals and departures in a representative sample of American cities, it shows that U.S.
- Date:
- Dec 2008
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- Depaul University
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- Indepth Level One Content
Breaking the trend: visioning and backcasting for transport in India and Delhi
From the 1980s to the present day,
- Date:
- 28/11/2008
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AMC yet to set speed limits for buses
AHMEDABAD : In the coming week, the Ahmedabad Municipal Tranport Service (AMTS) would install Global Positioning System (GPS) in 200 buses both owned by AMTS and private buses. But a key factor that has been ignored in the process is the safety of operation of buses on city roads.
- Date:
- 28/11/2008
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- Times Of India (Ahmedabad)
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Rly seeks WB help to complete urban transport project
Mumbai The Mumbai Rail Vikas Corporation (MRVC) has asked the World Bank for a loan of Rs 1,900 crore to carry out work for phase II of the Mumbai Urban Transport Project (MUTP). Phase I of the project is already in its final stage.
- Date:
- 26/11/2008
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- Indian Express (Mumbai)
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British Imperial Railways in nineteenth century South Asia
The massive predatory and exploitative nature of the imperial railway project under the façade of Britain’s benevolence to the people of India could not have been further from the reality of the material condition of the masses under colonial hegemony. This paper undertakes a comprehensive analysis of the British imperial railways during the second half of the 19th century.
- Date:
- Nov 2008
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- Economic and Political Weekly Vol: 43 Issue: 47 pp: 69-77
