Urban Mobility Development in Northeast India: Sustainable City with Green and Inclusive Transportation

Urban Mobility Development in Northeast India theoretically and empirically explores the interrelationship between and among cities, transportation, economic growth and environment to contribute towards engendering green urbanization for green growth.

In a time of aggravating environmental crisis, the book recognizes the duality of contrasting impact of cities and transport to economic development and environmental degradation. To serve as a guide for policy research, the book presents a contextual study blending qualitative as well as quantitative methodology in the context of a highland as well as a frontier capital city of the North-eastern Indian state of Nagaland, Kohima, towards creating a sustainable city with an inclusive and green mobility. The book underscores that management of urbanization and urban mobility challenges should go beyond supply side management and demand side management by democratizing policy making as well as considering efficiency, welfare, equity and practicality concerns and suchlike rationales.

By traversing from abstraction to everyday life, from global context to frontier context and from macro level to micro level, the book makes significant theoretical as well as empirical contribution. The book will be of use to students, researchers as well as policy practitioners interested in Urban Studies, Transport Economics, Growth Economics, Environmental Studies and Asian Studies, especially in relation to highland and frontier regions in developing economies in general and Northeastern Region of India in particular.