The 'Desire for Movement' is one of the fundamental needs of human beings. Transport plays a vital role in the economic development of any country. In India, people had to switch over to individual modes due to inadequacy and inefficiency of the mass transportation system. Advantages of individual modes, especially 2 wheelers, is that they can easily reach any place inside the congested area. The rapid increase in number of vehicles is giving rise to a set of new problems in road safety, congestion, traffic control, noise pollution, air pollution and fuel problems etc. This indicates that individual modes have two faces: Efficiency and Illusion. In the case of Bangalore city, the accident and environmental problems that the city is now facing are studied. Environmental problems due to vehicular emissions and accidents due to personalised modes compared to other modes have been analysed based on the registered motor vehicles. This will be useful for policy makers while decision-making. For the covering abstract see ITRD E116619.
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