Urban Sustainable Transportation Development- a Case of West Bengal

Abstract

Urbanization is a fact of life in underdeveloped countries. With urbanization comes, the problem of urban transport and mobility. There are various aspects of the urban transit problem. In this paper we are concerned with sustainable transportation system as one that meets three criteria. First, it must be ecologically sustainable, maintaining transport-related pollution levels below those that human beings can safely tolerate and that the environmental carrying capacity can allow. Second, the system must be financially sustainable so that it does not require significantly higher expenditures for operation, maintenance, nor carrying charges higher than what its users can pay.