City Of New Delhi Research Articles

Pre- Trip Parking Choice and Parking Guidance System for City of New Delhi: A Comprehensive Two-Phase Model

Pre- Trip Parking Choice and Parking Guidance System for City of New Delhi: A Comprehensive Two-Phase Model

Toward a “Freedom Life”: Notes on Transmasculine Placemaking in the “World-Class” City of New Delhi

The epistemological formations of area studies and critical regionality have been instrumental in situating the politics of gender-sexual variance in the Global South. Recent scholarship in India encourages further rescaling of queer and trans studies to account for the mutual entanglements of sexual and caste modernity, rights-based organizing, and metronormativity. Following this work, this article considers the possibilities offered by emphasizing the micro-locality of the urban neighborhood. A reading of two Delhi-based documentary films, Who Can Speak of Men? (2003) and Yeh Freedom Life (2019), the article troubles the idea of a unitary global and national trans subject. Conceptualizing the urban neighborhood as method and mode of reading transmasculinity compels a rethinking of the dichotomous framings of metropolitan queer as elite and transgender as abject. This article provides a trans microcartography wherein the world- and place-making work of transmasculine people enables a reimagining of masculinity in the neoliberalizing Indian “world-class city”.

In Transit: The Making of Urban Migrants in India

The neo-liberal transformation of India was aided by the restructuring processes launched by the SAP in 1991 and brought the open market to the centre of economic imagination for new India. As the Indian economy opened up to the global financial capital systems and the private sector expanded, a large proportion of labour was relocated to the private, unorganized sector in India. This sector swallowed a majority of the migrant population that was flowing into the urban centers of India. The “middle class aspirations” that the migrants to the cities harbored materialize as a part of the larger neo-liberal aspiration of being upwardly mobile and living a ‘good life’. Based on an ethnographic study conducted in two phases, this paper accounts the narratives of men and women migrants who are employed in the various service sector units of two shopping malls in the city of New Delhi. This paper maps the diversity in the migrant experience by comparing the experiences of two distinct groups of migrants employed in these sectors in India- the indigenous migrants from North East India and the migrants from the rural hinterlands of North India. By comparing the narratives of two groups of migrants my paper tries to argue that in addition to education and credentials, classifications of caste, community and ethnicity play an important role in determining ‘life chances’ and employment opportunities for migrants in urban India.

Community Building and Exclusion: The Role of Food in University Hostels in New Delhi.

In this paper, I seek to explore the social nature of food in university hostels in India’s capital city of New Delhi. With the increasing migration of students from smaller cities and towns to bigger cities searching for employment and education opportunities, hostels have become a preferred choice of accommodation because of their affordability and security. For many marginalised and economically poor students, these hostels are the only spaces where they can afford to live and eat. At the same time, hostels and university campuses have recently been in the spotlight as sites of resistance and social action. Discussions and debates around hostel fee hikes and food politics mean that there is a need to understand what hostel food represents for migrant students. While there is an attempt by universities to use hostel food to promote togetherness and belongingness, hostel food is also met with counter meanings. A study of hostel food offers us a lens to better understand the sources of contestation within the university and the reasons for protests by migrating students living in hostels.

Design of Battery Electric Bus System Considering Waiting Time Limitations

Battery electric bus (BEB) is getting increasing consideration from transit agencies as a sustainable public transportation alternative. Although BEBs' limited driving range and longer charging duration cause concern for bus operators, fast-charging technology is a potential remedy for extending the daily driving range of BEBs while simultaneously reducing the charging duration and battery size. However, increased queue length at the terminals for fast charging can also cause a problem in adhering to BEB schedules. In this context, a comprehensive analysis is required to plan and design the BEB system considering waiting time limitations, and finding the right trade-off between battery sizes and charging infrastructure. In this study, we developed a base optimization model, as well as its stochastic version, accounting for varying energy demand scenarios under different operating conditions. Our models determined the effects of waiting time limitations over the BEB battery sizes and charger design variables (location, size, and capacity) while minimizing the total cost of the BEB system. The sample average across all the scenarios is used to estimate the stochastic optimization model objective, which is then solved using the Lagrangian relaxation method. We implemented our model over a public bus subnetwork proposed for electrification in the city of New Delhi, India. The results suggest that considering waiting time limitations at a fast-charging station can affect the system design and will help bus operators abide by the service level agreements covering trip delay, frequency, daily mileage, and so forth, made with the transit agency.

Performance assessment of OppNet routing protocols with real world mobility traces

A new paradigm has been introduced by researchers in the field of data accessing at several mobile positions through implementation of WAN instead of cellular telephony. Based on range/coverage and network topology WAN taxonomy has been categorized as fixed network, mobile access network and ad – hoc network/wireless mesh networks respectively. Several interesting challenges has been posed by researchers in wireless networks such as routing, bandwidth, congestion, security, quality of service (QoS) and data rate enhancement. Of late, researchers around the world have started working in the domain of SHiP (Sparse, Hybrid, Intermittent and Partitioned) Network, which are plagued by several characteristics features such as: sporadic connections, intermittent routing, store – carry – forward type of message forwarding mechanism, dynamic network topology, transitive closure of message transmission, fluctuating network link, bottleneck probability, trust, and security in social networks. In this paper an outline of Oppnet (Opportunistic Network), part of SHiP Network has been presented with as in-depth coverage of routing problems and research challenges in it. Additionally, taxonomy of Oppnet routing protocols is illustrated with the features on basis of which categorization has been done. An exhaustive investigation through implementation of well-known routing schemes like: Epidemic, Spray and Wait, PROPHET and Direct delivery against mobility models such as: Random Walk, Random Waypoint, Shortest path-based movement and Cluster Movement has been accomplished in open-source software: ONE simulator with real world mobility dataset and traces of city of New Delhi, capital of India. Results achieved have been good and exceed our expectations.

Deterministic and probabilistic analysis of different empirical models to estimate monthly mean diffuse solar radiation for composite climatic region of India

AbstractThis research compares the performance of the models to estimate monthly mean diffuse solar radiation (DSR) on a horizontal surface for composite climatic region of India. The goal is to identify the most accurate model using deterministic and probabilistic analysis through two levels of uncertainty in daily sunshine period to examine the accuracy of the model that will be used to estimate DSR in the region under consideration. The meteorological data were collected from Indian Meteorological Department for the city of New Delhi (28°34′N, 77°12′E) which comes under composite climatic region prescribed by the Energy Conservation Building Code for India. From the literature, 150 typical models were chosen and categorized into three categories correlating diffuse fraction to sky‐clearness index and relative sunshine period. The models are statistically evaluated using well‐known statistical indicators in a unique way. In addition, the global performance indicator (GPI) is calculated using scaled values of indicators. The GPI of the chosen models ranged from −2.2912 to 0.2584, with the greatest value indicating the best model. Following that, the models are then ranked in decreasing order of GPI. Finally, the performances of the models are also checked for different locations having similar climatic conditions. Thus, results of this work are useful for impoverished countries as well as remote areas having similar environment conditions.

RTI: A Powerful Tool for Promoting Transparency in Jammu and Kashmir

Kashmir, India's highest point is 566 kilometres away from the capital city of New Delhi. Visitors to this region, which is bordered by the Himalayan and Pir Panjal ranges, marvel at the breath-taking scenery. The RTI Act was implemented by the state government as a mechanism for resolving administrative complaints. Knowing that corruption can be a deadly disease, Indian-controlled Jammu and Kashmir state has taken steps to ensure citizens have access to reliable, up-to-date information about their government. This has been used a lot by citizens and the media to find out about corruption, government work, and how much money the state of Jammu and Kashmir spends. This is done to make sure that the state is transparent and has good governance. State law has changed since Article 370 was repealed. The Central RTI Act 2005 now rules in the state after that law was changed. This paper takes a gander at the adequacy of the right to information act in Jammu and Kashmir to check whether there is any defilement nearby. As the paper shows, the RTI Act has been truly adept at lessening contrasts in admittance to data and looking into corruption. The individuals who work for the public authority have become more responsive and responsible since the RTI Act was passed into regulation.

RTI: A Powerful Tool for Promoting Transparency in Jammu and Kashmir

Kashmir, India's highest point is 566 kilometres away from the capital city of New Delhi. Visitors to this region, which is bordered by the Himalayan and Pir Panjal ranges, marvel at the breath-taking scenery. The RTI Act was implemented by the state government as a mechanism for resolving administrative complaints. Knowing that corruption can be a deadly disease, Indian-controlled Jammu and Kashmir state has taken steps to ensure citizens have access to reliable, up-to-date information about their government. This has been used a lot by citizens and the media to find out about corruption, government work, and how much money the state of Jammu and Kashmir spends. This is done to make sure that the state is transparent and has good governance. State law has changed since Article 370 was repealed. The Central RTI Act 2005 now rules in the state after that law was changed. This paper takes a gander at the adequacy of the right to information act in Jammu and Kashmir to check whether there is any defilement nearby. As the paper shows, the RTI Act has been truly adept at lessening contrasts in admittance to data and looking into corruption. The individuals who work for the public authority have become more responsive

Air quality in the New Delhi metropolis under COVID-19 lockdown

Air pollution has been on continuous rise with increase in industrialization in metropolitan cities of the world. Several measures including strict climate laws and reduction in the number of vehicles were implemented by several nations. The COVID-19 pandemic provided a great opportunity to understand the daily human activities effect on air pollution. Majority nations restricted industrial activities and vehicular traffic to a large extent as a measure to restrict COVID-19 spread. In this paper, we analyzed the impact of such COVID19-induced lockdown on the air quality of the city of New Delhi, India. We analyzed the average concentration of common gaseous pollutants viz. sulfur dioxide (SO), ozone (O), nitrogen dioxide (NO), and carbon monoxide (CO). These concentrations were obtained from the tropospheric column of Sentinel-5P (an earth observation satellite of European Space Agency) data. We observed that the city observed a significant drop in the level of atmospheric pollutant’s concentration for all the major pollutants as a result of strict lockdown measure. Such findings are also validated with pollutant data obtained from ground based monitoring stations. We observed that near-surface pollutant concentration dropped significantly by 50% for PM2.5, 71.9% for NO, and 88% for CO, after the lockdown period. Such studies would pave the path for implementing future air pollution control measures by environmentalists.

The COVID-19 crisis chronotope: The pandemic as matter, metaphor and memory

This article draws on the concept of the chronotope – spatiotemporal entanglements theorized in literary and anthropological studies – and extends the same to an engagement with and an understanding of the experiential and ontological defamiliarization, deceleration and suspension of space, time and security generated by the COVID-19 pandemic. This article, thus, offers a study of COVID-19 as a connective metaphor and a crisis chronotope – denoting the un-certain space–time marked and defamiliarized by changed orders and vocabularies of presence, distance, trust, tactility and memory – characterizing a world of alienation, insecurity and fear of infection. In arguing how the globality of COVID-19 has ironically informed isolation, incomplete identification and new fiction-formations, while also foregrounding the difference between human time and planetary time, the article will re-examine the crisis chronotope through a study of sudden death and the defamiliarized public space, exemplified in the city of New Delhi during the second wave of the pandemic in April–May 2021.

Space, time and the female body: New Delhi on foot at night

Our paper lays out an experiential account of walking the city, an otherwise mundane everyday act, as a performative action. The specific act of walking that this paper examines is part of a series of performance actions titled ‘Women Walk at Midnight’ (Delhi, 2016- present) where women collectively walk the streets of the city at night. Breaking from the conventional article format, our paper draws on reflexive feminist research and performance analysis to narrate the performative dimensions of walking that foreground how women collectively negotiate fear and vulnerability in/of the city. We draw on our own memories and experiences of walking - embodied, sensorial, even intuitive - not only as participants of the Midnight Walk but as women who often negotiate varied agressions of the city streets. The paper weaves an intricate pattern of relations between space, time and movement of female bodies in the city of New Delhi from a gendered perspective. We posit that transformations of urban atmosphere through the course of the day shape our experiences of the city, reproducing it as a gendered site. Relation of bodies to space, we argue, shifts in response to time. We are interested not only in the singular and deliberate actions carried out by individual walkers, but unpack the shared notions of risk, adventure and pleasure, experienced fleetingly and afforded only through the collective. These performative actions of female bodies at night not only challenge the rehearsed understandings of urban citizenship but also stage its emancipatory possibilities.

Identification of Alternative Landfill Site Using QGIS in a Densely Populated Metropolitan Area

Abstract Appropriate landfill site selection for disposal of solid waste is a very complicated assignment, as it needs multicriteria analysis of various parameters. In this study, we have used QGIS for identification of alternative landfill site in Gurugram district, a satellite city of New Delhi. Various criteria are analysed for selecting the landfill sites. Weight and rank are assigned to the criterion such as road networks, presence of water bodies, residential locations, and depth of the underground water table by using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). Five possible landfill sites have been identified for solid waste disposal based upon the AHP method analysis and overlay analysis in GIS tool in Gurugram district. The methodology used in this paper is very efficient for performing multicriteria analysis and can be generalised for selecting landfill sites in other areas with similar demographics.

Linear static analysis of multi storey building with horizontally asymmetric architectures

Multi-storey reinforced concrete (RC) frames with horizontally asymmetric architecture are very common these days due to rapid urbanisation and scarcity of land. Site dimensions, architectural requirements and sometimes client requirements generally force the designer to adopt buildings with horizontally asymmetric architecture. So there is a need to study the seismic effect on buildings with horizontally asymmetric architecture. The objective of this study is to evaluate the performance of buildings with horizontally asymmetric architecture located in the city of New Delhi (Zone 4) and subjected to earthquake. Manual analysis results for a typical ten floor building were compared with those obtained by STAAD.Pro. to validate the Linear static analysis procedure of STAAD.Pro. One regular building and four irregular buildings of same base area and same spacing of columns with heights of 15 m, 30 m and 45 m are analysed and compared for this study. For 5, 10 and 15 floor RC frames considered for study, it is observed that frames with horizontally asymmetric geometry − 2 result in least vales of Axial force in columns and Bending moment in beams with respect to the regular (R) and other horizontally asymmetric geometries I1, I3 and I4.

Behavioural Intention to Use Mobile Banking

This study aims to identify the factors that impact the perception of an individual to adopt mobile banking. The study employed UTAUT 2 model which conceptualises eight dimensions which are performance expectancy, social influence, effort expectancy, hedonic motivation, facilitating conditions, habit, price value with trust as an additional dimension. Primary data was collected through a structured questionnaire from 252 users of mobile banking in the city of New Delhi, India. Reliability and validity of the proposed model have been tested. The result of structural modeling revealed habit as the most important factor to influence the behavioural intention of the user followed by facilitating conditions, trust, hedonic motivation, and social influence, in that order. To boost the adoption of mobile banking services, service providers should focus on the identified dimensions in order of their importance.

The journey from products to waste: a pilot study on perception and discarding of electronic waste in contemporary urban India.

During the recent past, electronic waste (E-waste) has emerged as a major category of toxic waste in both global North and global South. Particularly, the emerging economies such as India are a major contributor to the E-waste volume in the world today. Accordingly, we attempted to carry out this study to evaluate the journey of equipment from 'electronic products' to 'electronic waste' in the city of New Delhi in India. The purpose was to carry out an exclusive pilot study with the potential to replicate the same at a larger scale in major Indian metropolis which are mostly the hubs of intense E-waste generation. The case of mobile phones (both smartphones and feature phones) was considered asthe key representative. A structured questionnaire survey was carried out with 334 purposively selected respondents in the city of New Delhi. Among several other noteworthy findings, we observed that there exists a gap among purchase behaviour of mobile phones, awareness on E-waste and disposal behaviour of these phones. For instance, the relatively high knowledge/awareness about E-waste is yet to be reflected in consumers' responsible purchase and disposal behaviour. We argue that creating awareness among citizens is central to a sustainable E-waste management system and effective policy instruments.

Socioeconomic Inequalities in Clustering of Health-Compromising Behaviours among Indian Adolescents.

Background:The simultaneous occurrence of health-compromising behaviors can accentuate the risk of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). This study aimed to examine the existence and patterns of clustering of four NCD risk behaviors among adolescents and its association with social position. In addition, socioeconomic inequalities in the occurrence of clustering of NCD risk behaviors were also assessed.Methods:A cross-sectional study was undertaken among 1218 adolescents (14–19 years old) in the city of New Delhi, India. An interviewer-administered questionnaire was used to assess health-compromising behaviors (tobacco and alcohol use, fruit/vegetable intake, and physical inactivity). Clustering was assessed using pairwise correlations, counts of clustering of health-compromising behaviors, comparison of observed/expected ratios, and hierarchical agglomerative cluster analysis. Multivariable logistic regressions were used to test the associations of clustering with social position (education and wealth). The relative and slope indices of inequalities in the presence of clustering of behaviors according to education and wealth were estimated.Results:Three major clusters of health behaviors emerged: (a) physical inactivity + lower fruit and vegetable intake, (b) tobacco + alcohol use, and (c) lower fruit and vegetable intake + tobacco + alcohol use. Pronounced clustering of health-compromising behaviors was observed with lower educational attainment and wealth.Conclusion:The presence of clustering of health-compromising behaviors was considerably higher among adolescents with lower educational attainment and wealth. The area of residence has an important influence on socioeconomic inequalities in clustering of NCD risk factors.

3D seismic wave amplification in the Indo-Gangetic basin from spectral element simulations

This study investigates seismic wave amplification effects in the Indo-Gangetic (IG) basin for possible large earthquakes in the region using spectral-element simulations. The Indo-Gangetic basin is a large and deep sedimentary basin that covers the northern part of India, in which several mega-cities are located, including the capital city of New Delhi. The seismicity in the region due to presence of many active tectonic faults is an important matter of concern for engineers. The damage caused in a future large earthquake could affect a huge population and hinder the development of numerous large-scale industrial establishments. Due to local soil conditions and the structural complexity of the sedimentary basin, seismic wave amplification is expected. However, the absence of seismic data for large earthquakes and limited knowledge of the structure of the basin poses challenge in estimating shaking amplifications. Therefore, we model the 3D structure of the basin using Spectral Finite Element method (Specfem3D) including the topography of the Himalayan mountains, and compute synthetic seismograms for a suite of simulated rupture scenarios. First, we use two past earthquakes in the basin to calibrate our 3D model by comparing the simulated ground motions with the recorded data. Later, we consider realizations of potential future large earthquake (Mw 7.1), by generating different kinematic rupture models. We simulate earthquake scenarios for different source parameters to quantify the statistics of expected ground shaking levels. We then infer seismic wave amplification as a function of both frequency and basin depth for complex seismic sources. Our results indicate a maximum amplification of 16 in Peak Ground Velocity (PGV) and 19–35 in Spectral Accelerations (Sa) at long periods. The results presented in this study may be useful for engineers to predict ground motions for future large earthquakes in absence of any available seismicity data.

Education as Part of Migrant Trajectories: A Sociological Study of Pakistani Hindus in a City

ABSTRACTThe Pakistani Hindu community inhabiting a camp in the city of New Delhi presents the most recent case of South-to-South migration. Migration into India for this community has been undertaken with an aim to achieve a better life, especially one characterized by better education for their children. Education for the families from this community is associated with progress, improvement, development of intellect, and a means to put an end to the families’ endless roaming. However, the visions and aspirations for the future meet with difficulties stemming from the nature of their migration and the absence of any transactional relationship with the Indian state due to their lack of citizenship.

Influence of urban form on urban freight trip generation

Urban freight is a key driver of the economy. Increasing population and rapid urbanisation is contributing to increased freight on urban roads, which in turn is resulting in greater emission levels, and congestion on urban roads. Transport and urban planners, researchers, industry groups and policy makers are trying to cope with the challenges to make cities sustainable and liveable. While there has been significant volume of work done on the effects of transport and land use with respect to passenger transport, effect of various land use variables on freight needs to be further explored. This paper aims to address this gap of analysing freight trip generation models with respect to built environment variables such as population density, commercial density, land use mix, that are likely to influence the freight trip generation patterns (FTG) by mode. While freight trip generation is inelastic with respect to price as compared to passenger transport, spatial structure of the city is a crucial factor in the locational decision of all freight receiving entities. The analysis is performed with a dataset from an establishment survey conducted for the city of New Delhi for freight trip generation models and secondary information for land use variables are used.