Can an AI system help us manage our traffic better? What would the advantages be over the current system? How would those advantages solve problems we currently face? What would the current traffic police do?
Ahmedabad is a segregated city. There are a lot of cities in the world which are segregated. Most of them based on financial power. People can guess whether you are rich or poor based on where you live in the city. There are always some areas in the city which are considered more ‘posh’
This is the third article in a series of articles about City Priorities. If you haven’t read, please go through City Priority 1: Affordable Housing and City Priority 2: Waste Management. The main question that we are exploring is “What does the BJP government need to prioritize in Ahmedabad for this term?” We are going
This is the second article in a series of articles about City Priorities. If you haven’t read, please go through City Priority 1: Affordable Housing. The main question that we are exploring is “What does the BJP government need to prioritize in Ahmedabad for this term?” We are going to focus on one priority at
A few months ago, BJP scrapped through the Gujarat state elections. It means that unless something dramatic happens, Gujarat will have a BJP government in the state till 2022. It means that at that time, the state would have been under BJP rule for close to three decades! There have been a lot of discussions
Ahmedabad is the fifth most populous city in India and is spread over more than 460 square kilometers. It is one of the biggest cities in the state of Gujarat. There are a lot of things the city is famous for but one thing that it is definitely infamous for is : Traffic. Ahmedabad has
“A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It is where the rich use public transportation” A sound public transportation system is definitely one of the big signs of a developed city. All the big cities in the world have really comprehensive public transportation systems. The efficiency and effectiveness of
A lot of countries in the world have free health care. It means that their citizens can avail of basic medical treatments without any cost. The scope and coverage provided under the free universal health care depends from country to country. India ranks 144 out of 201 countries in the STC Health Index. It is
Illegal parking on the road is a very big problem for the city of Ahmedabad. Everywhere you go, you will see citizens parking their cars as they please, ignoring the challenges it creates for other people driving on the road. This is not limited to a particular area of the city and neither it is
“The solutions of today sometimes become problems of tomorrow.” The above statement has been true for humans since a lot of years. Development has always brought with itself a new set of challenges. Be it the ozone gases, pollution, radiation etc. Cars, which were, at one point of time, a breakthrough in travel technology,
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