We’ve received several insightful and meaningful entries for the Data Visualization Challenge and we are delighted to announce the shortlist. Here they are (in no particular order):
1. Akshan Ish - The visualization attempts to create a snapshot of how Indian cities look & feel like from a mobility perspective. It is a data-driven identity for different cities, which moulds various mobility factors into appropriate visual representations.
2. Tara Thiagarajan - The focus of…

Auto-rickshaws play an important role in urban mobility in most Indian cities.  EMBARQ India’s analysis on the size of the auto-rickshaw market in select Indian cities, based on government records, indicates that Tier I cities in India (with population greater than 4 million) typically have more than 50,000 auto-rickshaws, while Tier II cities (with population between 1 and 4 million) have between 15,000 and 30,000 auto-rickshaws.  Auto-rickshaws, thus, constitute a significant share of the…

Using data to tell the story of how we live and move in urban India!
We just made it to the Mars orbit! But what about our shorter trips closer to home? How do we move about our cities? From home to work, and from work to play? How much are we traveling? Who uses our roads, buses, and trains? Who walks and when do we walk? How do we make these choices? And how do these choices impact our health and our economy?
The Institute of Urban Transport has launched a Data Visualization…

Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is a systematic process to evaluate the potential health impacts of any plan, project or policy before implementation and has recently started gaining traction in the transportation sector as well. HIAs also recommend appropriate corrective or preventive measures to manage the health impacts of the proposed plan or policy. Transportation HIAs can take place at any level, from site to corridor, city, regional, and national. HIAs could be led by the private,…

The infographic focuses on providing recommendations in order to make streets safer for cyclists and pedestrians with approriate speed calming measures and signage placement.
This infographic appears in EMBARQ India presentation, Non-Motorized Transport. View to presentation to access more charts and graphs on Non-Motorized Transport in India.

In 2011, 9 out of 15 cities in India had an unhealthy PM10 AQI value, with some smaller cities like Ludhiana and Kanpur having very unhealthy air quality (Global Health Observatory Data Repository 2011). A study conducted by Tel Aviv University researchers also found that air pollution levels in Indian cities have increased rapidly between 2002 and 2010. Calcutta had an 11.5% increase in air pollution and Bangalore had the highest increase of 34%.
This image appears in EMBARQ’s issue…

This poster illustrates recommendations to make BRT systems universally accessible. It addresses 1) Access along Trunk and Feeder corridors, and 2) Access at/within stations.
This information appears in the EMBARQ India Paper, Designing BRT Systems for Universal Access: Case of Ahmedabad & Indore. View the paper to know more about universal access at BRT stations.