Strategies to achieve sustainable mobility involve promoting public transport, increasing the share of transport modes that do not consume fossil fuels, reducing trip length, and promoting clean fuel technology for motorized modes, including public transport. The majority of trips in large Indian cities are made by non-motorized or public transport. However, these cities have unacceptable air pollution levels and peak hour congestion, along with high fatalities in road traffic accidents. Furthermore, trip lengths tend to be short partly because a large number of people are forced to live close to their workplace in "unauthorized settlements".Such transport patterns cannot be described as sustainable. They suggest that dependence on environment-friendly modes of travel exists in these cities since a large section of the population does not have any other option. In fact, the trend over the last 20 years shows that with increases in real incomes use of motorized private transport (cars and two-wheelers) also increases.
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