Friday 11 October 2013
Wednesday 9 October 2013
Moily travels by Metro as part of mission to save fuel
New Delhi: Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dr M Veerappa Moily,
who moves around in government vehicles, travelled by the Delhi Metro
on Wednesday as part of a fuel conservation drive.
Dr Moily took the Metro from a station near his residence and travelled to the Central Secretariat station, which is near Shastri Bhawan, the seat of his ministry.
Adequate security arrangements were put in place for the Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister's travel.
Dr Moily after the Metro ride rubbished reports that the daily commuters were inconvenienced by his move.
"Inconvenience is by media coverage, not by me or security," he said.
Dr Moily prior to his Metro ride said saving petrol is saving India's money, and urged all other ministers also to do the same.
"Saving petrol is saving India's money. This is a sense of patriotism. The country can be energy-independent by energy conservation. I appeal to the other ministers also to do this," he said.
Dr Moily had last month said that he all officials in his ministry will travel by public transport every Wednesday beginning October 9.
Dr Moily took the Metro from a station near his residence and travelled to the Central Secretariat station, which is near Shastri Bhawan, the seat of his ministry.
Adequate security arrangements were put in place for the Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister's travel.
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"Inconvenience is by media coverage, not by me or security," he said.
Dr Moily prior to his Metro ride said saving petrol is saving India's money, and urged all other ministers also to do the same.
"Saving petrol is saving India's money. This is a sense of patriotism. The country can be energy-independent by energy conservation. I appeal to the other ministers also to do this," he said.
Dr Moily had last month said that he all officials in his ministry will travel by public transport every Wednesday beginning October 9.
ANI
First Published: Wednesday, October 09, 2013, 10:34
Tuesday 8 October 2013
THE FUTURE OF RIDE-SHARING - Must Read!!!
Maged Dessouky writes algorithms to optimize a disruptive industry
In the year 2050, what will everyday transportation look like? How will we get to work or run a few errands? Will we, like so many do today, hop in a car solo?
Maged Dessouky sees the future differently: a dynamic marketplace where entering your destination into a device summons a driverless car to collect you. Simultaneously, users nearby with similar route requests enter the queue to share the car with you. A nuanced combination of cost-sharing, cars for hire, and a community of users will come together to form the future of transportation.
Maged Dessouky from the Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering along with co-PIs Sven Koenig and Fernando Ordonez secured a $1 million grant from the Federal Highway Administration under the Broad Agency 2 Announcement of Exploratory Advanced Research to build the algorithms for such a future.
“They told us, ‘Envision a transportation system 30 to 40 years down the road,’” Dessouky said. “So we started developing this auction mechanism where people price their idle vehicle capacity and sell it on the marketplace. But what became interesting to me was that, by the time the project got funded, there was already an industry emerging that’s doing it today.”
Indeed, companies like Lyft, Sidecar, Uber and Avego, among others, are blazing a trail for car-for-hire and cost-sharing systems.
How do they work?
Car-for-hire companies like Lyft operate much like a taxi, while steering clear of that very term, since taxis require specific and expensive permits to operate. Lyft drivers register with the service, pass a background check, and use the free mobile app to provide taxi services with their own car whenever they choose. The Lyft software calculates a “suggested donation” for the rider to pay at the culmination of the trip. This term too is carefully chosen—a fare would imply this was a taxi service. But remember: it’s a “car for hire.”
Cost-sharing systems like Avego allow users to share their car with other people on their route in exchange for a portion of the cost of the trip. The software that manages this type of transaction calculates the financial impact of picking up a co-commuter based on the driver’s inconvenience and the overall length of the trip.
With cost-sharing, the money is exchanged between the driver and passenger. Companies that facilitate this exchange may charge a transaction fee or work with local governments and employers to subsidize the system.
Taxi companies, which may spend up to $1 million to secure proper operating permits, are not pleased with this new wave of ride-sharing technology, and local governments are being forced to either turn a blind eye or shut these new services down. In Los Angeles, the Department of Transportation sent cease and desist letters to Uber, Lyft and Sidecar, as they were "operating taxi companies without the proper permits." The issue has since been pushed to the state level, and the California Public Utilities Commission has made a temporary agreement with the aforementioned ride-sharing companies, allowing them to continue operating.
Newly elected Mayor Eric Garcetti has voiced his support of companies like Lyft, applauding disruptive technologies that challenge ageing industries.
In an April workshop with ride-sharing industry leaders, Dessouky outlined the keys to full deployment of these systems: meeting the demand for drivers and getting people to try a ride-sharing service for the first time. Once people try it, they are likely to have a positive experience and use it again.
“It’s not yet the dynamic marketplace that we see it becoming," Dessouky said. "And it’s not because the technology’s not there—the technology is there now. It’s just that you need drivers and you need passengers. And that’s the key—how do we get them?”
Getting people to try something new like ride-sharing requires both a cultural shift and a clear financial incentive. Decades after informal hitchhiking fell off the map due to safety concerns, ride-sharing apps are taking advantage of something tech-savvy users are accustomed to trusting: ratings.
Key to the ride-sharing industry is user ratings of both drivers and passengers. People are much more likely to enter a stranger’s car if dozens of users have given him/her 4 out of 5 stars.
In terms of financial incentives, it’s not yet clear where the threshold lies that will spur behavior changes. If gas cost $30 per gallon and every freeway charged a $10 toll, ride-sharing would become a financial imperative. But where exactly the tipping point in between lies for each person is not yet clear.
Social judgment theory (SJT)
Social judgment theory (SJT) is a persuasion
theory where the perception and evaluation of an idea by comparing it
with current attitudes. According to this theory, an individual weighs
every new idea, comparing it with the
individual's present point of view to determine where it should be
placed on the attitude scale in an individual's mind. SJT is the
subconscious sorting out of ideas that occurs at the instant of
perception.
1. When train was introduced for the first time in Britain there were lots of opposition from the people, they even gone to the extreme that the hen wont lay eggs, cows milk output will be reduced.. What is the take for this today?. We have a bullet train...
2. When Alexander Graham bell showed his invention Telephone, the queen gave a nice comment, its a good invention but who is going to use it?.. can we live without a mobile phone today?
3. When Wright brothers attempted to fly and show the world there is a modern transportataion ahead no one believed them...what is the fastest mode of public transportation today?.. Think
4. When Galileo Galilei told the world that earth revoles around the Sun, people mocked at him and even casted him as a man with psychological problem..what is the truth today?
5. When Eiffel wanted to show the world that bridge can be built with concetp of cantilever, he was mocked at...but what is the fact today in the structural engineering world?
6. When Bill Gates unwind the microcomputers, mainframe mammoths ridiculed him...his vision was that every household will have a PC and his OS will be running in that PC...its almost true..
7. Steve Jobs inventions and innovations were ridiculed by Bill Gates few times....
8. I dont know ...there may be some investors who might have turned down Facebook and Google.....but what is the fact today about FB and GOGL?
Well, good things were always discounted by on some basis of the people's limited knowledge, exposure and inability to see what the achievers conceived as mentioned in the SJT.. so innovators if you believe your ideas will succeed never give up...believe in you if you are sure..it will happen in your lifetime if not your ideas will be used by billions after you..no matter how much resistance you get from friends, families and public.
1. When train was introduced for the first time in Britain there were lots of opposition from the people, they even gone to the extreme that the hen wont lay eggs, cows milk output will be reduced.. What is the take for this today?. We have a bullet train...
2. When Alexander Graham bell showed his invention Telephone, the queen gave a nice comment, its a good invention but who is going to use it?.. can we live without a mobile phone today?
3. When Wright brothers attempted to fly and show the world there is a modern transportataion ahead no one believed them...what is the fastest mode of public transportation today?.. Think
4. When Galileo Galilei told the world that earth revoles around the Sun, people mocked at him and even casted him as a man with psychological problem..what is the truth today?
5. When Eiffel wanted to show the world that bridge can be built with concetp of cantilever, he was mocked at...but what is the fact today in the structural engineering world?
6. When Bill Gates unwind the microcomputers, mainframe mammoths ridiculed him...his vision was that every household will have a PC and his OS will be running in that PC...its almost true..
7. Steve Jobs inventions and innovations were ridiculed by Bill Gates few times....
8. I dont know ...there may be some investors who might have turned down Facebook and Google.....but what is the fact today about FB and GOGL?
Well, good things were always discounted by on some basis of the people's limited knowledge, exposure and inability to see what the achievers conceived as mentioned in the SJT.. so innovators if you believe your ideas will succeed never give up...believe in you if you are sure..it will happen in your lifetime if not your ideas will be used by billions after you..no matter how much resistance you get from friends, families and public.
What is Carpooling? Why should you care?
By having more people using one vehicle, carpooling reduces each person's travel costs such as fuel costs, tolls, and the stress of driving. Carpooling is also seen as a more environmentally friendly and sustainable way to travel as sharing journeys reduces carbon emissions, traffic congestion on the roads, and the need for parking spaces. Authorities often encourage carpooling, especially during high pollution periods and high fuel prices.
In 2009 carpooling represented 43.5% of all trips in the United States and 10% of commute trips.The majority of carpool commutes (over 60%) are "fam-pools" with family members.
Carpool commuting is more popular for people who work in places with more jobs nearby, and who live in places with higher residential densities. In addition, carpooling is significantly correlated with transport operating costs, including gas prices and commute length, and also with measures of social capital, such as time spent with others, time spent eating and drinking, and being unmarried.
Share the ride and save money
In 1950 my parents paid only 10 paise to travel for a distance of 25kms, its Rs 25 for 25 km is the case today. Lets share the ride and save money and the planet Mother Earth. Join Us for FREE!!!
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Some facts and figures of Carpooling - Europe
Some fact figures of carooling in Europe...source carpooling.com
Carpooling is becoming increasingly popular in Europe. See Why (video).
Top 10 carpooling cities in Europe in terms of rides available:
Berlin, Germany
Paris, France
Vienna, Austria
Zurich, Switzerland
Brussels, Belgium
Prague, Czech Republic
Wroclaw, Poland
Milan, Italy
Madrid, Spain
Amsterdam, Netherlands
More Facts:
1. Each month, more than 1 million people carpool across Europe using carpooling.com
2. The average distance of a carpooling ride in Europe is 200km
3. The demographics of carpooling users are: 53% women and 47% men, mostly young professionals between 25 and 39 years old, 70% singles, 52% using online payment very often. See the full carpooling User Profile.
4. High Occupancy Lanes (HOV) exist in Spain, the U.K., Norway and Sweden
In July 2012, Daimler Mercedes-Benz and carpooling.com forged a strategic partnership, showing the importance of new peer-to-peer mobility solutions for auto manufacturers.
For Rio+20, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) asked carpooling.com to join forces and support their initiative to Travel Together to GreenUp the planet.
Other fun facts:
In Germany, there is a carpool every 6 seconds
Longest registered carpool in Europe was London (UK) to Van (Turkey)
Polish people are the most likely to give a 4.5 star rating
The average price of a carpool from Athens to Patras is 14,25 Euros
More than 16 couples have gotten married thanks to carpooling.com
The most random carpooling passengers were a Gecko, 20 kgs of wax, a forgotten key and 25 hamsters saved from a science lab
Climbing petrol prices or Volcanic ash clouds cause soaring carpool users throughout Europe
See more facts here.
* Source: carpooling.com
Germany
In Germany, there is a carpool every 6 seconds on the carpooling platform mitfahrgelegenheit.de, which makes it the country with the highest carpooling activity in the world.
Carpooling is a regular mode of transportation in Germany, like the train, bus or plane. It is a popular way to travel for both commuters and leisure travelers and a fantastic peer-to-peer transportation network.
Check this data visualization video of carpooling to understand the scale of the carpooling network in Germany.
In the 1970-80's, agencies across Germany called Mitfahrzentrale, were organizing carpooling in exchange for a 30-50% commission fee. See the little story of carpooling.
The most popular rides in Germany are:
Berlin-Hamburg
Berlin-Dresden
Hamburg-Kiel
Berlin-Leipzig
Dresden-Leipzig
France
The latest numbers from ADEME, the French Environment and Energy Management Agency state in Sep 2012:
3 million people carpool in France
There are more than 200 carpooling services
Enterprises are one of the biggest supporters of carpooling: between 50 and 600 registered users per company, i.e. between 0.3 and 13% of employees
Three quarters of people who carpool give up solo-driving
1 to 1.2 tons of CO2 avoided by carpooler per year
Most popular carpooling rides* in France are:
Paris-Lille
Paris-Lyon
Paris-Rennes
Paris-Toulouse
Paris-Nantes
Top carpooling cities in France are Paris, Rennes, Toulouse, Lyon, Nantes, Bordeaux, Montpellier, Lille *
* Source: carpooling.com
Italy
Two years ago, there was no word for carpooling in Italian but today, Italy is one of the fastest growing carpooling markets:
Carpooling explodes in Italy
The most popular carpooling ride in Italy is Milan-Rome
The top carpooling cities in Italy are Milan, Rome, Padova, Turin, Verona, Florence, Bologna, Naples, Bolzano and Brescia.
USA
In the U.S., carpooling is mostly known for commuter trips. About 10% of commuters carpool, mostly to avoid traffic by using carpool lanes.
Carpooling is becoming increasingly popular in Europe. See Why (video).
Top 10 carpooling cities in Europe in terms of rides available:
Berlin, Germany
Paris, France
Vienna, Austria
Zurich, Switzerland
Brussels, Belgium
Prague, Czech Republic
Wroclaw, Poland
Milan, Italy
Madrid, Spain
Amsterdam, Netherlands
More Facts:
1. Each month, more than 1 million people carpool across Europe using carpooling.com
2. The average distance of a carpooling ride in Europe is 200km
3. The demographics of carpooling users are: 53% women and 47% men, mostly young professionals between 25 and 39 years old, 70% singles, 52% using online payment very often. See the full carpooling User Profile.
4. High Occupancy Lanes (HOV) exist in Spain, the U.K., Norway and Sweden
In July 2012, Daimler Mercedes-Benz and carpooling.com forged a strategic partnership, showing the importance of new peer-to-peer mobility solutions for auto manufacturers.
For Rio+20, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) asked carpooling.com to join forces and support their initiative to Travel Together to GreenUp the planet.
Other fun facts:
In Germany, there is a carpool every 6 seconds
Longest registered carpool in Europe was London (UK) to Van (Turkey)
Polish people are the most likely to give a 4.5 star rating
The average price of a carpool from Athens to Patras is 14,25 Euros
More than 16 couples have gotten married thanks to carpooling.com
The most random carpooling passengers were a Gecko, 20 kgs of wax, a forgotten key and 25 hamsters saved from a science lab
Climbing petrol prices or Volcanic ash clouds cause soaring carpool users throughout Europe
See more facts here.
* Source: carpooling.com
Germany
In Germany, there is a carpool every 6 seconds on the carpooling platform mitfahrgelegenheit.de, which makes it the country with the highest carpooling activity in the world.
Carpooling is a regular mode of transportation in Germany, like the train, bus or plane. It is a popular way to travel for both commuters and leisure travelers and a fantastic peer-to-peer transportation network.
Check this data visualization video of carpooling to understand the scale of the carpooling network in Germany.
In the 1970-80's, agencies across Germany called Mitfahrzentrale, were organizing carpooling in exchange for a 30-50% commission fee. See the little story of carpooling.
The most popular rides in Germany are:
Berlin-Hamburg
Berlin-Dresden
Hamburg-Kiel
Berlin-Leipzig
Dresden-Leipzig
France
The latest numbers from ADEME, the French Environment and Energy Management Agency state in Sep 2012:
3 million people carpool in France
There are more than 200 carpooling services
Enterprises are one of the biggest supporters of carpooling: between 50 and 600 registered users per company, i.e. between 0.3 and 13% of employees
Three quarters of people who carpool give up solo-driving
1 to 1.2 tons of CO2 avoided by carpooler per year
Most popular carpooling rides* in France are:
Paris-Lille
Paris-Lyon
Paris-Rennes
Paris-Toulouse
Paris-Nantes
Top carpooling cities in France are Paris, Rennes, Toulouse, Lyon, Nantes, Bordeaux, Montpellier, Lille *
* Source: carpooling.com
Italy
Two years ago, there was no word for carpooling in Italian but today, Italy is one of the fastest growing carpooling markets:
Carpooling explodes in Italy
The most popular carpooling ride in Italy is Milan-Rome
The top carpooling cities in Italy are Milan, Rome, Padova, Turin, Verona, Florence, Bologna, Naples, Bolzano and Brescia.
USA
In the U.S., carpooling is mostly known for commuter trips. About 10% of commuters carpool, mostly to avoid traffic by using carpool lanes.
Why do you need to Carpool? Find why...
Lets be prudent and be selfish atleast for our generation to live without scarcity of the natural resource. The least we could do is sharing what is available instead of splurging and leaving them with nothing... Lets take a bitter pill now for a better living place for our generation.
One such a small thing we could do is sharing the cars to work to reduce the vehicle traffic, emission, noise, ofcourse fuel and money...last but not least the environment for our generation.
If it makes sense to you all it needs is less than a minute to register or login using facebook to WWW.KILOMETER.IN . Big things happen with a small effort.. Lets start our small effort, today!.
Save Fuel...Save Money... Save Environment
The
impending need to save everything is a must now...We are running out of
natural energy resources such as coal, natural gas and petroleum. Lets
not take it for granted it will be there forever, atleast in our
lifetime. Thats why we all sweat out. Even those taking bribe or
involved in scam or burglary....one common reason...for their
offsprings...for their generation.. we all have the one common
selfish motive, that is for our family and our generation. What is the
point if we deplete all of them and leave them with money... cant do
much with the money by then..
Lets be prudent and be selfish atleast for our generation to live without scarcity of the natural resource. The least we could do is sharing what is available instead of splurging and leaving them with nothing... Lets take a bitter pill now for a better living place for our generation.
One such a small thing we could do is sharing the cars to work to reduce the vehicle traffic, emission, noise, ofcourse fuel and money...last but not least the environment for our generation.
If it makes sense to you all it needs is less than a minute to register or login using facebook to WWW.KILOMETER.IN . Big things happen with a small effort.. Lets start our small effort, today!.
Lets be prudent and be selfish atleast for our generation to live without scarcity of the natural resource. The least we could do is sharing what is available instead of splurging and leaving them with nothing... Lets take a bitter pill now for a better living place for our generation.
One such a small thing we could do is sharing the cars to work to reduce the vehicle traffic, emission, noise, ofcourse fuel and money...last but not least the environment for our generation.
If it makes sense to you all it needs is less than a minute to register or login using facebook to WWW.KILOMETER.IN . Big things happen with a small effort.. Lets start our small effort, today!.
Heavy rain and traffic
Best way to beat this traffic folks can use kilometer.in to carpool and save themselves from the maddening traffic.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Heavy-rain-throws-traffic-out-of-gear-in-Chennai/articleshow/22480886.cms
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Heavy-rain-throws-traffic-out-of-gear-in-Chennai/articleshow/22480886.cms
Smart way to commute to work
Travel Smart to work... share the ride with your co-worker and someone who works in the same building, same campus or same area.... try KILOMETER.IN.
Any alternative travel mode?
Hustle and bustle train travel is the alternative travel mode to Bus?...Not really.... why not try KILOMETER.IN?
Cattle Class
want to travel in cattle class?.. maathi yosi...try KILOMETER.IN for a comfortable and cost effective travel at your convenience.
Travel Smart
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Save the environment
Even
though we do tele-commute with the technology available it is inevitable
that we have to personally visit for certain things.
Travel becomes expensive with the rising fuel price and escalating travel expenses. We all wish to have a comfortable travel no matter how rich, poor or middle class, but its all the question of affordability.
This is where Kilometer.in comes handy where this portal provides a platform for those travelers be it car owners or ride seekers they can post their travel plan and find a match to share the ride with a small fee instead of hefty amount for taxi. It saves time, money and ofcourse our planet Mother Earth too..
Why waste money when you can save? Lets do this atleast in the vested interest of our generation if not caring the planet
Travel becomes expensive with the rising fuel price and escalating travel expenses. We all wish to have a comfortable travel no matter how rich, poor or middle class, but its all the question of affordability.
This is where Kilometer.in comes handy where this portal provides a platform for those travelers be it car owners or ride seekers they can post their travel plan and find a match to share the ride with a small fee instead of hefty amount for taxi. It saves time, money and ofcourse our planet Mother Earth too..
Why waste money when you can save? Lets do this atleast in the vested interest of our generation if not caring the planet
Soft Launch.
"One
Thousand Mile Journey Starts with a Single Step" - Chinese Proverb. As
the saying goes, for anything and everything to accomplish we have to
move forward, mobility is the key for everything.
Travel has changed the way we live, do business today with sea and air travel. However the conventional road transport still remains with us the way it used to be and will be.
Travel has changed the way we live, do business today with sea and air travel. However the conventional road transport still remains with us the way it used to be and will be.
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