Traffic snarl-up or traffic jam is a common phenomenon in Puri, one of the imperative pilgrimage sites for Hindus as well as a popular tourist destination in India. Traffic congestion inevitably produces traffic noise, in turn annoying the drivers, leading to road rage. Keeping this in mind, the present article has monitored and assessed different noise descriptors in 7 different types of buses...

A lacuna in our understanding of how publicness public transit is being constituted the primary point departure for this paper. In recent times, has been articulated through two parallel readings – one, a political economic reading that sees static macrostructural constraints; and two, micro-sociality aboard manifests an situ spontaneous space. Moving beyond spontaneous, we articulate dynamic c...

This paper proposes a methodology for practical siting and sizing of Hybrid energy systems (HESs) consist of: wind turbine (WT), photovoltaic (PV) and combined heat and power (CHP) units. In this method, the interaction of Plug-in Electric Vehicles (PIEVs) in the electric distribution system is considered. Electric Vehicle are seen to have some negative impacts on electric distribution system p...