Manoj Sharma
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A tale of twin cities: How digital replicas could help transform urban governance (opens the original)
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There are now two Varanasis. One is the ancient city of temples, ghats and crowded, labyrinthine lanes along the Ganga. The other is its digital twin — a 160-sq-km digital replica built from LiDAR, aerial and drone imagery and 360-degree street-level scans, captured using light aircraft, backpack-mounted scanners and vehicles. It’s a digital representation of the city, linked to real-world data and capable of being updated, analysed and used to simulate scenarios. The ancient city is already put
Going round in circles: Are roundabouts ‘traffic bottlenecks’? Experts weigh in (opens the original)
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Every weekday morning, Rishi Kumar finds himself caught in what he calls ‘a slow-motion whirlpool of traffic’ on his way to the office in central Delhi. “These roundabouts in Lutyens’ Delhi really test my patience and my driving skills, and cause unexpected delays in reaching office,” he says. “They are beautiful, but they are also big traffic bottlenecks now.” Kumar’s frustration is shared by millions of commuters who find it hard to tackle the increasingly gridlocked roundabouts across Indian
Not just light on a pole: How street lighting shapes our cities (opens the original)
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In December 2019, a young veterinary doctor was raped and murdered on a dark stretch of a road in Hyderabad. Days later, women across the city launched an online campaign, ‘Light Up Hyderabad’, demanding that dark stretches, broken streetlights and blind spots be mapped and fixed. The campaign went viral, with the lack of proper street lights becoming a hotly debated subject in many cities. But six years on, not much has changed. Municipal surveys and corporate audits over the past year paint a
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