Where the Road is Without Congestion & Environment is Pollution Free : Trip to Sustainable Urban Mobility

Current era is the era of motorization. Head to toe every aspect is engrossed with motorization. Motorization is perceived as synonymous to civilization and elite status. Motorized mobility is in its full boom numbers of private motorized registered vehicles is on splurge and is expected to increase further in the wake of development. In the backdrop of above said status, congested roads, polluted air, jostling sounds of vehicles and road injuries has become the most common scene in cities. This situation calls for “sustainable urban mobility” characterized by shift to non-motorized and public transport resulting in better urban quality of life. Most of the tools and techniques of sustainable transportation were developed before coinage of the term “sustainable transportation” such as walking, public bus, passenger tram, Passenger rail service, pedal bicycles. Earlier innovations and interventions aimed at bettering the status of road infrastructure and fuel efficiency of vehicles. But cities with overbuilt highways have experienced unintended consequences, linked to radical drops in public transport, walking and cycling. In many cases streets become void of “life”. Yet another impact was an increase in sedentary lifestyles causing and complicating a national epidemic of obesity and accompanying dramatically increased health care costs. Certain other provisions adopted with the objective of sustainable mobility are carpooling, high occupancy vehicle lane, congestion pricing, and transportation demand management. In the area of sustainable urban mobility there is no one size fits all approach. Thus, the idea of the present study is to provide with an exhaustive review of various success models with the objective of analyzing myriad of ideas and concepts involved by various cities to attain the status of sustainable urban mobility