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Air Quality, Climate Change, and Transport: August 2009
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Air Quality, Climate Change, and Transport. Musings by CAI-Asia staff. Saturday, August 1, 2009. Solution for Air Pollution – Kolkata Experience. Well I am keeping my fingers crossed to see the situation in Kolkata on Monday – August 3/2009. In case you are wondering “what” and “why”. Monday – 3rd August. Is important for all of us – To just backtrack - Monday 3. The battleground was judiciary with environmentalists. Seeking pollution solution in high court. This shows the classic case of not knowing the...
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Air Quality, Climate Change, and Transport: May 2010
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Air Quality, Climate Change, and Transport. Musings by CAI-Asia staff. Thursday, May 13, 2010. India Transport Emissions – 2007 – Quantifying emissions without reliable data. You simply cannot generate reliable emission estimates without accurate data. In fact, I would not hesitate to claim that “. Without reliable data, transport emissions forecasting is as good as “fortune telling. You need to consider the numbers with a pinch of salt or many a times consider the estimates as only numbers! Even the act...
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Air Quality, Climate Change, and Transport: February 2009
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Air Quality, Climate Change, and Transport. Musings by CAI-Asia staff. Monday, February 16, 2009. Go by Bus or by Car: That is the Question - By Glynda Bathan. And "If two choices were given me: go by bus or by car, would I choose the bus for my daily commute again? On the one hand, taking the bus versus driving my car to work provides many benefits:. Somebody else does the driving (you feel almost "chauffeured") so say goodbye to driving stress. No more worries about where to park. Of course, I can leav...
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Air Quality, Climate Change, and Transport: November 2009
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Air Quality, Climate Change, and Transport. Musings by CAI-Asia staff. Saturday, November 28, 2009. 8220;HYBRIDS” RULE PHILIPPINES STREETS – PART 1. By, Sudhir Gota. 8216;Josephine Guittu ‘drives a Hybrid for living in Manila. But, there are thousands of “Josephine Guittu” still waiting for help while people breath polluted air in Manila. 1 Tricycle capping by Coding scheme, Volume reduction program, Phase-out etc. 2 Identifying illogical operators (anti-colorum drive). Carrots with Stick can make “...
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Air Quality, Climate Change, and Transport: October 2010
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Air Quality, Climate Change, and Transport. Musings by CAI-Asia staff. Wednesday, October 20, 2010. Asian haze makes its return. Figure 1 Regional Haze Map. Source: NEA Meteorological Services Division. Over the past few days, Singapore and some areas in Malaysia have been enveloped in haze as a result of open burning in Sumatra, Indonesia (Figures 1 and 2). Figure 2: Regional PM10 Conc. 20/10/2010. Source: Nea Meteorological Services Division. Figure 3: Wind direction in Indonesia, Singapore. ASEAN Agre...
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Air Quality, Climate Change, and Transport: June 2009
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Air Quality, Climate Change, and Transport. Musings by CAI-Asia staff. Sunday, June 21, 2009. SAFE Annual Convention 2009. I guess as our vehicles become safer, more efficient and more environmentally-friendly, there's a need for us, the drivers, the commuters and the common public, to be more aware of the issues that affect us. At the end of the day, safety is in our hands. Caption: Images from the 2009 SAFE Convention. 2]http:/ www.wheelsunplugged.com/ViewNews.aspx? A day before the 2009 Annual SAFE Co...
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Air Quality, Climate Change, and Transport: February 2010
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Air Quality, Climate Change, and Transport. Musings by CAI-Asia staff. Tuesday, February 2, 2010. HIDDEN EMISSIONS FROM TRANSPORT. Have proved that Construction is significant component of total life cycle and should not be neglected. Massive projects require huge quantities of material, machinery and workers which create many leakages in emission profile. The above argument looks minute in nature if we consider emissions quantified from. This above arguments raises an important related question –. Back ...
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Air Quality, Climate Change, and Transport: May 2009
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Air Quality, Climate Change, and Transport. Musings by CAI-Asia staff. Saturday, May 30, 2009. Use light colored clothes at night. You would want motorists to see you - wouldn't you? Innovative thinkers in Transport sector have not yet established the relationship between the color of clothes, walking and its impact on fatality. But, there are some who have found the answer to reduce pedestrian fatality. Pune Traffic police in India advices pedestrians and cyclists to follow particular instructions -.
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Air Quality, Climate Change, and Transport: July 2010
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Air Quality, Climate Change, and Transport. Musings by CAI-Asia staff. Tuesday, July 13, 2010. When roads are claiming lives of people. Walkability – the ignored component of Urban Transportation System. Walkability is the overall support for the pedestrian environment. This has grown increasingly important as the world urbanizes and motorized modes of transport restrain travel on foot. There are many aspects in the pedestrian environment that contribute to the overall concept of a walkable commu...The r...
