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Urban mobility is one of the toughest challenges faced by the cities in the developing world and mobility is a key dynamic of urbanization. Cities have been major contributors to greenhouse gas emissions and personal transport dependencies have been a concern. Government at federal level and state level have been trying to put in place a robust mobility system to control this menace. Without a proper performance measurement of urban mobility, it is difficult to identify and solve these problems. Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India have adopted a framework to benchmark cities designing a set of Service Level Benchmarks and aggregate them to find out an Index. In this paper, an attempt has been made to deliberate on creating a performance measurement framework for Urban Mobility Index (UMI) using a Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) approach. A comparison of both the approach has been made by analyzing the UMI for 12 Indian cities. The paper identifies certain indicators which measure the sustainability as well as smartness of a city from the perspective of Urban Mobility. These indicators and the UMI can be used to asses the progress on city performance and corrective actions could be taken.
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The authors would like to acknowledge the contribution of Mr. Rajeev K R, Research Student, M Tech Urban Planning, SVNIT (2014–16).
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Tripathy, P., Khambete, A.K., Chauhan, K.A. (2019). An Innovative Approach to Assess Sustainability of Urban Mobility—Using Fuzzy MCDM Method. In: Deb, D., Balas, V., Dey, R., Shah, J. (eds) Innovative Research in Transportation Infrastructure. Lecture Notes in Intelligent Transportation and Infrastructure. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2032-3_6
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