A Step towards promoting low carbon transportation in India: a case study of DMRC
Student name: Ms Sugandha Rastogi
Guide: Dr Suresh Jain
Year of completion: 2015
Host Organisation: SENES Consultants India Pvt Ltd
Supervisor (Host Organisation): Mr Lovekush Shah
Abstract: It is utmost need that we follow a sustainable path towards development so as to minimize our impacts on the environment. Climate change and global warming are the outcomes of our activities. We aim for development but at the cost of environment. Energy demand is intricately linked to development and transport sector has a major share on a country’s energy demand. Also transport sector has a major contribution on the GHG emissions due to burning of fuels. With the rising number of vehicles on roads, congestions as well as emissions are major problem. In large cities metro rail is becoming popular with its ability to carry large number of people, it helps reduce the congestion on road, and because it runs on electric power it has low per person per km emissions as compared to two wheelers or four wheelers. Considering the case of Delhi metro which is the second metro system in India after Kolkata, has become huge success in a short span of time. Government of India has taken a smart step by planning Delhi metro as a component of multi modal transportation for the city. Metro uses electricity for its operation thus contribute indirectly towards GHG emissions. Its energy use is split into traction energy and non-traction energy. This study only focus on the efficiency measures in DMRC’s elevated metro stations which is a part of non-traction energy. There is huge potential for energy conservation and thus reduce emissions in metro stations. By simply modifying the technology and design huge amount of energy can be saved. DMRC has taken such measures and emission reductions has been calculated. Also other energy efficiency measures in other metro stations of the world has been studied and compared.
Key words: Delhi metro, emission reductions, energy efficiency measures, sustainable transport, energy savings
