{"id":34572,"date":"2022-11-06T02:12:59","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T20:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=34572"},"modified":"2025-04-20T15:12:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T09:42:59","slug":"urban-mobility-india-conference-centre-asks-states-to-ensure-balanced-availability-metro-bus-transpo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/urban-mobility-india-conference-centre-asks-states-to-ensure-balanced-availability-metro-bus-transpo\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Mobility India Conference: Centre Asks States to Ensure Balanced Availability Metro-Bus Transport Across Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>What\u2019s in today\u2019s news:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>About the Urban Mobility India (UMI) Conference<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>News Summary<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Recently, the 15th Urban Mobility India Conference was inaugurated under the aegis of the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) in Kochi, Kerala.<\/li>\n<li>With the continued expansion of India&#8217;s metro rail network, the MoHUA has asked State Transport Corporations across the nation to ensure balanced availability metro-bus transport across cities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>About the Urban Mobility India (UMI) Conference:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The annual Conference is a flagship event held under the aegis of the MoHUA and is inaugurated by the Union Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs.<\/li>\n<li>The genesis of UMI is from the\u00a0National Urban Transport Policy of the Government of India, 2006\u00a0(NUTP).\n<ul>\n<li>The policy places a high emphasis on strengthening capacities at the state and city levels to address urban transportation issues and establish sustainable urban transportation networks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The primary objective of the conference is\u00a0to disseminate information to the cities, whose officials attend the conference, to help them keep up-to-date with best urban transport practices.<\/li>\n<li>The conference provides an opportunity for key decision makers and delegates to interact with stakeholders in Urban Transport both domestic and international.<\/li>\n<li>It is also a forum\u00a0to discuss key issues relevant to the sector and suggest measures\u00a0to address them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>News Summary &#8211; Highlights of the Conference:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Both public buses and metro rail systems are important components of urban mobility. However, there is a need to ensure that these systems complement each other rather than overlap.<\/li>\n<li>Balancing both metro rail and bus systems is essential.\n<ul>\n<li>Metro coaches can transport about twice as many passengers than buses, often carrying over 200 passengers each metro coach compared to 100 to 125 passengers aboard a bus.<\/li>\n<li>Thus, the availability of a single metro train with five coaches will be enough to cater to the demand met by 10 buses.<\/li>\n<li>However, that does not mean that buses should stop being deployed on the route entirely, because some commuters may prefer using buses due to choose, operational timings, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>According to the Union Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs, India is poised to overtake Japan and South Korea to become the\u00a0<u>third largest metro rail network in the world<\/u>.\n<ul>\n<li>India currently has the\u00a0<strong>fifth largest metro network<\/strong>\u00a0in the world with 810 km of metro lines operational in 20 Indian cities.<\/li>\n<li>India also has over 980 km of metro networks and Regional Rapid Transit Systems (RRTS) currently under construction in 27 cities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>He emphasised the need to fully utilise the potential of urban transport systems, including buses and metro rail networks, by 2047, in line with the Central government\u2019s objective of \u2018<u>moving people rather than vehicles<\/u>.\u2019<\/li>\n<li>The MoHUA has directed all States &#8211; with both existing as well as upcoming metro rail networks, to conduct route rationalisation of buses in the interest of commuter convenience and multimodal mobility.\n<ul>\n<li>With road space shrinking due to the country&#8217;s annual rise in vehicle population, this step essentially tries to strike a balance between the number of buses needed along the new or existing metro rail routes.<\/li>\n<li>This step is one of the most important components of a plan for urban mobility by 2047, and it is also expected to accelerate the shift of commuters to public transportation<strong>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>A developed India by 2047 necessitates that urban mobility be a key driver, especially given that roughly half of the population would live in urban areas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urban Mobility India Conference was inaugurated under Union Ministry of Housing &#038; Urban Affairs in Kochi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":34573,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-mains-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}