CURRENT SCIENCE, VOL. 83, NO. 6, 25 SEPTEMBER 2002 707 *For correspondence. (e-mail: [email protected]) congestion in the cities. Similarly, in zoos, university campuses and areas of tourist attraction like heritage sites, these rickshaws should be encouraged. 2. Since both MAPRA and IMPRA are environmentally sound and user-friendly vehicles, they should get all the financial benefits avai...

Indian villages, towns and cities have high air and noise pollution caused by transport vehicles, especially petrol/dieselpowered three-wheelers. Conventional Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) driven 3 and 4 wheelers are against environment friendly and those are having very less efficiency when compared to EVs (Electric Vehicles). This paper details the overall construction and development of a...

Abstract E-Rickshaw provides environment friendly, in-expensive, time-effective, suitable mode of transportation and plays a vital role in cities. lacks regularization, frequency management, which increases the burden on management system. Paper aims at developing real-time RFID based Management System for small scale farmers, focuses scheduling e-rickshaw according to passenger demand real tim...

Van-rickshaw is a popular mode of transport of people and merchandise in developing countries. The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of age on cardiovascular load of van-rickshaw pullers in the summer season (March-June) in real situations. In 142 participants, divided into 2 age groups (25-40 and 41-55 years), cardiovascular load was assessed on the basis of working and partial re...

OBJECTIVES The informal sector is the dominant area of employment and the economy for any developing country including Bangladesh. The cost of productivity loss due to absence from work or presenteeism with illness has rarely been examined in the Bangladesh context. This current study, therefore, attempted to examine the impact of ill health of informal sector workers on labor productivity, fut...

BACKGROUND In view of high out-of-pocket costs and low spending even for basic healthcare for the poor employed in the unorganized sector, policy makers in India have turned their attention to developing a financing mechanism for social health insurance with the desire to provide quality care to the poor and economically disadvantaged. OBJECTIVES This study aims to assess and determine the di...

The purpose of the study was to determine whether wheelchair-based circuit resistance training (CRT) exercises place the shoulder at risk for mechanical impingement. Using a novel approach, we created a mechanical impingement risk score for each exercise by combining scapular and glenohumeral kinematic and exposure data. In a case series design, 18 individuals (25-76 yr old) with paraplegia and...

In this study, we aimed to evaluate the performance of various machine learning (ML) classifiers predict mode choice movement-challenged persons (MCPs) based on data collected through a questionnaire survey 384 respondents in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The set consisted CNG-driven auto-rickshaw, bus, walking, motorized rickshaw, and non-motorized which was found as most prominent used by MCPs. Age, sex...