Bicycling Infrastructure Design for Indian Cities and Emerging Economies (eBook)

The book focuses on specific infrastructural solutions for bicycling for Indian cities and other emerging economies. It explores the current state of bicycling infrastructure in Indian cities and proposes standard and custom designs, guidelines, 2D and 3D illustrations, technical drawings as well as relevant discussions and explanations  for the choice of right infrastructural solutions according to site constraints. This volume will be of great interest to those in academia and industry dedicated to a vision of creating inclusive streets in Indian cities and emerging economies to making the street safe and comfortable for bicyclists.

Dr. Debapratim Pandit is currently an Associate Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India and a Ph.D. in Urban engineering from University of Tokyo, Japan. His research interests lie in the area of urban transportation planning and design, urban informatics and urban utilities and services planning. He has over 30 publications in international journals and conferences and is a regular reviewer of Scopus indexed journals. He has created two online courses with 60 lectures each on Urban Landuse and Transportation Planning and Urban Utilities Planning: Water Supply Sanitation and Drainage under the SWAYAM-NPTEL MOOCs platform of Government of India. Dr. Pandit is currently in charge of the Urban informatics and Advanced Transportation & simulation laboratory at the Department of Architecture and Regional Planning and has guided 5 Ph.D. scholars and approximately 50 Master's students. Dr. Pandit has worked extensively on bicycle infrastructure design, bicycle sharing systems and bicycle infrastructure planning in general. He has completed several prestigious research and consultancy projects on bicycle infrastructure planning funded by the Government of India.

Ar. Deepa Sharma is currently a researcher at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India and holds a Master Degree in City Planning from the Department of Architecture and Regional Planning, IIT Kharagpur. She specializes in public transit planning, paratransit planning, bicycle infrastructure planning and public bicycle sharing systems. She has presented her research work at various national and international conferences and published research articles in various Scopus indexed international journals. She has served as a teaching assistant at the Department of Architecture and Regional Planning and is currently engaged in several projects including the development of software and hardware for fully automated self-service public bicycle share system; intelligent urban bus transit dispatch, control and surveillance system using artificial intelligence and user perception; and service quality assessment for paratransit services in Kolkata, India. She has also been engaged in several bicycle infrastructure planning and design projects including improvement of bicycle accessibility to rail stations, and planning and designing of bicycle tracks in the Indian context.

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The book focuses on specific infrastructural solutions for bicycling for Indian cities and other emerging economies. It explores the current state of bicycling infrastructure in Indian cities and proposes standard and custom designs, guidelines, 2D and 3D illustrations, technical drawings as well as relevant discussions and explanations  for the choice of right infrastructural solutions according to site constraints. This volume will be of great interest to those in academia and industry dedicated to a vision of creating inclusive streets in Indian cities and emerging economies to making the street safe and comfortable for bicyclists.