Part 1 Geetam Tiwari Propoor Green Urban Transport
Channel: SUMNetIndia
Date: 2011-12-14

This is Part 1 of Prof Geetam Tiwari's talk at UMI 2011 
(see Part 2 at http://youtu.be/Xt9TsUKShV4)
 
Prof Tiwari talks about the nature of urban India which has seen more growth in the number of smaller towns than mega cities; the lack of attention on the transportation needs of the smaller towns; who are the urban poor and their preferred modes of transport; the need to support low carbon transport (non-motorized and public transport); why life cycle costs of infrastructure must be included in cost benefit analysis. Prof Tiwari points out that in the past few years attention has been only on technological inputs and not enough on NMT, PT or land use and shelter policies - that is to say, efforts so far have not been pro-poor.