Our work in India began in 1998 with one woman’s cycle-rickshaw journey in the bylanes of Agra to improve urban mobility. Twenty five years later, the trail has spread nationwide, with more than 25 passionate experts working closely with cities and their leaders.

Timeline

2002

TRANSFORMING CYCLE-RICKSHAW

Complete transformation of over half a million modern cycle-rickshaws that
served 4-5 million zero-carbon trips every day.

2009

INDIA’S FIRST BUS RAPID TRANSIT

Janmarg BRT launched in 2009—India’s first high quality BRT that inspired Pune’s Rainbow BRT in 2015 which is one of the largest and most used in the country.

2013

NATIONAL PUBLIC BICYCLE-SHARING GUIDELINES

National guidelines developed for Public Bicycle-Sharing for Ministry of Urban Development.

2014

INDIA’S FIRST NMT POLICY

Chennai adopted India’s first Non Motorised Transport (NMT) Policy that inspired Pune (in 2016) and Pimpri-Chinchwad (in 2021) to adopt the same.

Chennai launched the Streets Programme with over 150+kms

2016

PUNE’S URBAN STREET DESIGN GUIDELINES

Pune’s Streets Programme launched and 100 km of streets transformed based on the Urban Street Design Guidelines.

2017

INDIA’S FIRST TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT POLICY

Jharkhand was the first state in India to notify a Transit-Oriented Development Policy.

2018

INDIA’S FIRST PARKING POLICY

Pune adopted India’s first progressive parking policy that inspired Jharkhand’s state-wide parking regulation.

2019

PUNE’S E-BUS EXPANSION; RANCHI LAUNCHES PBS

Ranchi launched its State’s first public bicycle sharing system with over 1200 cycles on ground.

With the largest e-bus fleet, Pune became one of the first cities in India to have a dedicated e-bus depot.

2020

NATIONAL SCALE-UP OF WALKING AND CYCLING

The launch of India Cycles4Change and Streets4People Challenge with MoHUA helped 35+ cities identify 4000+kms to transform into Healthy Streets.

2021

DIGITALIZATION TO IMPROVE PUBLIC TRANSPORT

Transport4All Challenge helped 100 cities create task-forces to enable seamless coordination across departments for efficient implementation of projects.

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