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Carpooling: A Step to Reduce Traffic Congestion

Author(s):

Jeet S Mehta , AITS RAJKOT; Mayursinh B Jadeja, AITS RAJKOT

Keywords:

Carpooling, Traffic Congestion

Abstract

As is the trend worldwide, India is undergoing rapid urbanization. This means not only that more people than ever before will be living and working in cities, but also that more people and more goods will be making more and longer trips in urban areas. The costs of increasing dependence on cars is resulting in expensive road building and maintenance, clogged and congested roads, high levels of energy consumption along with its economic and environmental costs, worsening air and noise pollution, traffic accidents and social inequities that arise when the poor find transportation services increasingly unaffordable.

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Paper ID: IJSRDV6I20868
Published in: Volume : 6, Issue : 2
Publication Date: 01/05/2018
Page(s): 1449-1452

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