Presentation at IIT Kharagpur at RANBIR AND CHITRA GUPTA SCHOOL OF INFRASTRUCTURE DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT (RCG SIDM) on 30th August

1. Challenges and Opportunities in
Transportation and Land-use
Planning & System Management
A Resource Planning approach to
Social and Ecological Entrepreneurship
Presentation at RCG School of Infrastructure Design & Management at IIT Kharagpur
August 30th, 2016

2. The story so far…
“Our enormously productive economy demands
that we make consumption our way of life, that
we convert the buying and use of goods into
rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction, our
ego satisfaction, in consumption ... We need
things consumed, burned up, worn out, replaced,
and discarded at an ever increasing rate.”
-Victor Lebow, Journal of Retailing, 1955

3. The Driverless Car
“You might have time to do other things while in the car”

4. An advertisement for BMW cars -and freedom,
and power, and sex, and status....
The Carless Driver

5. “I am Human, I'm American,
and I'm Addicted to Oil...”
“Selfish behaviors are reward driven and innate, wired
deeply into the survival mechanisms of the primitive
brain, and when consistently reinforced, they will run
away to greed, with its associated craving for money,
food, or power. On the other hand, the self restraint
and the empathy for others that are so important in
fostering physical and mental health are learned
behaviors – largely functions of the new human cortex
and thus culturally dependent. These social behaviors
are fragile and learned by imitations much as we learn
language".
– Dr. Peter Whybrow - "American Mania“

6. The way forward for human society...
Can we transform from being a psychotic and
parasitic society that gnaws at the very life-
support system of Mother Earth...
...to being a responsible and symbiotic society
that nurtures the life-support system of
Mother Earth.

7. Resource Planning for
Equity and Sustainability
A System Architecture of Localisation
and Globalisation

8. IDEA BEHIND
Resource planning has become critical in
these times of deepening ethical, economic
and ecological crises.
This is primarily because in modern times,
humanity has been consuming material
resources at a rate much too faster than
their rate of regeneration.
This is depriving larger sections of the
society of their rights and privileges as well
as eating into the future of our children.

9. RESOURCE TYPES & SOCIAL ORGANISATION
In its urge to equate quality of life with material comforts and
individual possession, humanity has undermined the impact of
non-material resources on quality of life and overall well-being.
These non-material resources are:
a) management resources
b) socio-political resources and
c) knowledge resources.
An optimal way of social organisation is required to gainfully
deploy material and non-material resources in a balanced and
appropriate manner.

10. RESOURCE ECO-SYSTEM
Localisation Globalisation
Larger number of
people involved
Smaller number of people involved

11. Closed Source Open Source
RESOURCE ECO-SYSTEM

12. Primary
Production
Tertiary
Production
Secondary
Production
RESOURCE ECO-SYSTEM

13. Closed Source
Open Source
Localisation
Globalisation
Optimization for
Equity and Sustainability
Primary
Producers
Secondary
Producers
Tertiary
Producers
RESOURCE ECO-SYSTEM

14. Challenges and Opportunities in
Transportation and Land-use Resource
Planning and System Management

15. Challenges & Opportunities
Private Transport
Public TransportPublic Roads
Automobile
ICT
VSMaRT
Location
Climate Protection
Energy Security
FuelVehicle
Innovative
Applications
Current and
Pro-active
Regulation
Consumer A
Consumer E
Consumer F
Consumer X
Consumer B
Consumer C
Consumer D
Energy
Transportation
Trade & Tariff
Personalised Mobility Services
Customised Freight Services
GAP
Economic Stimulus for Recovery & Renewal
Waste, Inefficiency, Misallocation

16. VSMaRT – “Think Rail, Use Roads” I
Create Road-based System in complement
to Metro Rail Network
 Metro Stations = VSMaRT stations
 Coaches = High occupancy, Plug-in Electric
Hybrid vehicles (150km/litre)
 Dedicated corridor = Pre-ordained routes,
Semi-automatic guided vehicles, Demand-
driven carriage capacity and quality

17. VSMaRT– “Think Rail, Use Roads” II
 Expands mass transit network at a lower cost
particularly for areas where passenger density is not
high
 Creates door-to-door reach by seamless integration
of feeder service and with other modes
Similar in many ways, it is a leapfrog advancement
over conventional Bus Rapid Transit Systems in terms
of attractiveness and affordability

18. Mission VSMaRT
• Demand-responsive Service :
– Uses a Fleet of Eco-friendly Vehicle (EV) for Feeder Trips (<3kms.) for
Bus/MRT/ Carpool and for Short Trips (<8 kms.)
– Develop a network of EV Stations at 0.5-1 km distance around the city.
• EV-friendly routes connect inner residential areas to arterial routes
(with congestion/emission charging for space-inefficient, polluting
vehicles )and encourage more and more people to “avoid” cars for
short trips/ single-driven/low occupancy trips.
• It facilitates “attractive” bus service, metro rail service as well as
highly attractive personalised car sharing/pooling service.

19. VSMaRT – Short Trip

20. VSMaRT – Long Trip
@ 60 kmph average speed @ 150 kmpl fuel efficiencyRoad Travel

21. Light Foot-over-Bridge

22. VSMaRT Eco- friendly Vehicles
EV2

23. People-friendly Streets
• People-friendly
livable, neighborhoods
do not require capital
expenses
• They can generate
large numbers of
sustainable livelihood
opportunities
• They require policy
intervention that are
objective, sensible and
committed

24. People-friendly Cities around the World

25. VSMaRT Stations
High-rise EV Parking
Basement EV Parking
High-density Bike Parking
Multi-level EV Robotic Parking
Arterial Road-side EV Parking

26. VSMaRT ICT
Smartcard/ Communication/ Navigation System
Premium
VSMaRT
VSMaRT
Innovative application of communication, location and computing technologies to
planning and management of transportation- land use - energy system can transform
our travel and living experience at affordable costs.

27. In-Vehicle Intelligence
1. Trip Booking
2. Driving Proficiency Rating
3. Turn-by-Turn Navigation Assistance
4. Target Speed Assistance – in sync with
traffic signal for Green Corridor and ROW
5. Real-Time Incident Management
6. Favorite Co-traveler Selection
7. Passenger Telematics
• Traffic Signal are set on a Fixed
Time Plan and the Plan is stored in
the In-Vehicle Unit.
• Signal times are in proportion to the
carriage capacity in that direction.

28. About RCG School of Infrastructure
Design & Management
“The need for creating world-class infrastructure in
India for augmenting a positive shift in global
perception about India; garner a creative
commitment of utilizing FDI in all sectors of
infrastructure – physical, social, economic and
ecological; and establish world-class utility and
facility- based advanced infrastructure systems and
their governance requires a proper research-
industry interface. ..Set up in 2008 RCG SIDM in IIT
Kharagpur is a bold response to the need.”
Web: http://www.iitkgp.ac.in/RCGSIDM/

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