Intermodality & Last Mile Connectivity - Creating Smart Walkable Spaces

Urban congestion needs to be addressed by encouraging high quality and innovative energy-efficient public transport integrating it with other forms of paratransit, ensuring last mile connectivity; working on accessibility and service improvements.

The use of two or more modes of transport in an integrated manner, in a door-to-door transport chain, is intermodalism. It implies a coordinated, seamless, flexible and continuous flow where the objective is to develop a framework for an optimal integration of modes enabling efficient and cost-effective use of the transport system.

Intermodal transportation is used to take advantage of inherent economies and provide integrated services at a lower cost. Intermodality has become the need of the hour in this fast paced highly urbanized world. Due to population numbers going through the roof, and subsequently the growing traffic, there is an increase in the imbalance in use of various modes of transport and infrastructure. From a socio-economic point of view, our society is showing signs of gross inefficiency and inadequacy when it comes to transport infrastructure.