Urban Transportation and the Environment

Sudhakar Yedla is a professor of Environmental Policy at Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai, India. He is also a member of Court (Board), Central University of Jharkhand and guest faculty at Indian Institute of Forest Management (IIFM), Bhopal. He has a PhD in Environmental Engineering from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India. He has a Diploma in International Environmental Law from UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), Switzerland and Certification in Environmental Economics and Development Policy from the World Bank Institute, Washington, D. C., USA. His area of expertise includes Urban Environmental Policy, Climate Change Mitigation and Sustainable Mobility. Earlier he was a faculty member at the University of Ulsan, South Korea; Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand; and National Institute of Technology (NIT), Warangal. He had served the Institute of Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Japan as aPolicy Researcher and National Institute of Environmental Studies (NIES), Japan as a Fellow. He had also served UNDP as GEF and SDG consultant, UNESCAP as Sustainable City consultant, UNEP, UN-FAO and Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) as a Project Director for their regional initiatives on Roles of Agriculture, Climate Change and Transportation. Prof. Yedla was also a Visiting Research Fellow at the Korean Institute of International Economic Policy (KIEP), Seoul, South Korea. He has published extensively (over 100) in international journals and authored books and serving editorial boards of a number of international journals. He has been invited extensively by national and international organizations and universities to give lectures. He is a member of a large number of academic societies and won more than 10 prestigious fellowships internationally. He has also been serving various corporate giants such as Cisco as a CSR reviewer.

Chapter 1. Planning Transportation –The Basic Constructs.- Chapter 2. Urban Transportation Trends– An Overview.- Chapter 3. Transport Service Provision - Environmental and Other Implications.- Chapter 4. Alternative Measures and Their Assessment.- Chapter 5. Non-motorized Modes of Transport.- Chapter 6. Barrier for the Implementation of NMT and Other Cleaner Modes of Transport.- Chapter 7. Policy Analysis for Sustainability.- Chapter 8. Economic and Regulatory Measures for Environmentally Sustainable Urban Transportation.- Chapter 9. Choosing between Global Environmental Strategies Vis-à-vis Local Mitigation Strategies – Application of Multi-criteria Analysis.