TY - BOOK AU - Sanghvi, Darshini Nileshbhai AU - Sinha, Shalini (Guide) TI - Assessment of car free days in Indian scenario : case study of Hyderabad and Gurgaon (Also available on CD) U1 - P TH-2034 PY - 2016/// N1 - CONTENTS Executive Summary . vii Chapter 1. Introduction 1 1.1 Background . 1 1.1.1 Global Context . 2 1.1.2 Indian Scenario 3 1.2 Problem statement . 4 1.3 Main Objective 5 1.4 Sub – objectives 5 1.5 Methodology . 5 1.6 Data Collection 6 Chapter 2. Understanding Car free day . 7 2.1 Concept of car free days 7 2.2 History of Car free days 8 2.3 The Case Study of Bogota . 9 Chapter 3. Car free day – A case of Hyderabad 14 3.1 Background . 14 3.2 ‘Raahgiri’ day to Car free Thursday . 15 3.3 Car free Thursday 19 3.3.1 Why Thursday? 19 3.3.2 Why Hitech City? 20 3.3.3 Spreading Awareness . 21 3.3.4 Initiatives taken to support Car free Thursday . 22 3.3.5 Participants of Car free Thursday 27 3.3.6 Perception of people towards Car free Thursday: 29 3.4 Outcome 30 3.5 Inference 30 Chapter 4. Car free day – A case of Gurgaon 32 4.1 Background . 32 4.2 ‘Raahgiri’ day to Car free Tuesday. 33 4.3 Car free Tuesday . 37 4.3.1 Spreading Awareness . 39 4.3.2 The D – Day, 22nd September, 2015 44 4.3.3 Perception of people towards Car free Tuesday: . 45 4.4 Successive Car free Tuesdays . 46 4.5 Inference 46 Chapter 5. Findings 48 Annexure 50 References 53 ER -