With increasing congestion and traffic woes in the city, the only way forward from here on will be to use public and non-motorised transport, said V Tamizh Arasan, Retired Prof of the department of Civil Engineering from IIT-Madras. He delivered the annual E R R Thillainayagam Endowment Lecture on sustainable transport, organised by the The Institution of Highway Transport.
Highlighting the current and future scenario with respect to India’s demography, economy and energy consumption, Tamizh Arasan cited several government reports that said that transportation is the most rapidly growing consumer of the world’s energy.