Big Indian cities to ride on smaller peer's smart urban mobility drive

Smaller cities and non-metro cities are expected to drive the smart urban mobility growth in the country with various municipal bodies across several tier-II and tier-III cities experimenting with transportation models prevalent in London and Singapore.

Experts feel the traffic forecasts in smaller towns is easier to ascertain as compared to metro cities and, therefore, such experiments can be undertaken easily. Traffic in Mumbai and Delhi is far more erratic than Bhopal and Indore.

One such successful model is the Atal Indore City Transport Service, modelled on the pattern of London, Singapore, Cape Town and Bogota. Atal Indore City Transport