Sustainable Transportation in Metropolitan Cities; Berlin, Helsinki, New Delhi and Pune

Abstract

If one comprehends a city as a human body, then transportation would be its arteries and veins. It makes mobilization possible. In the age of rapid globalization transportation does not only concern itself with a single city but transportation deals with a global scale today. This paper focuses on a comparative analysis of transportation methods for four cities in terms of how new sustainable transportation concepts can be applied to make our future better. The discussion includes a vast range of possibilities of our future sustainable cities in transportation. Environmental and technological aspects as well as politics and policies are inspected. Cities flourish, develop and revolve around transportation. Our future sustainable cities would be no different. We need to approach transportation from all the three aspects of sustainability e.g. social, ecological, and environmental. We have chosen our cities for case studies on a broad range from low-density in Helsinki to very high population in Delhi. The rapid growth in transportation has remarkably increased the carbon footprints of our cities. While planning for our future cities making transportation sustainable is of paramount importance. To understand the issue of transportation for our sustainable cities we discuss the present state of transportation globally and analyse transportation in major cities such as Berlin, Delhi, Helsinki and Pune.