A talk on Mobility | By Dr. Tapan Sahoo
SME - IITJ conducted a talk hosted by Mr. Abhishek Sharma (Office of SME) on Mobility. Date of session: 24th April 2021 Speaker's Profile: Dr. Tapan Sahoo Executive V.P. (Engineering) Maruti Suzuki The speaker discussed upon the following key points: 1. How the evolution of Mobility has happened? 2. Global imperatives shaping future of mobility 3. India Imperatives Evolution of Mobility The speaker explained the evolution taking place with a case study of "5th Avenue, New York". Initially, before 1913, there were Horse Carts and hardly we could see one car. The second case was on Easter Morning, 1913. Now, they could see only cars. Then around 2013-15, when we see the same road, we observe that Congestion has increased much more. So, with this case study, the speaker explained that Urban Mobility has transformed in the last century. Further, talking about the Global Automobile Production, he said that around 1950- 55 (US led the automobile...