TY - BOOK AU - Kumar, Ashwin B. AU - Sheth, Anal (Guide) TI - Impact assessment of alternate fuel for bus transit - case of Ahmedabad (Softcopy is also available) U1 - MIED TH-0082 PY - 2017/// N1 - CONTENTS Acknowledgements iii Abstract iv List of figures v List of tables vi 1. Introduction 1 1.1. Ahmedabad City Profile 1 1.2. Ahmedabad’s Transportation Infrastructure 1 1.3. Need for the study 1 1.4. Objective 3 1.5. Scope of work 3 2. Literature Review 5 2.1. True Total Cost of Ownership 5 2.2. National Policy on Biofuels 6 2.3. Alternative Fuel Bus Options 7 2.4. Social cost-benefit analysis 9 2.5. Diesel bus versus electric bus 11 2.6. Electric buses in India 12 2.7. SOLUTIONS/UEMI impact assessment tool 13 2.8. External costs of air pollutants 14 2.9. Emission factor for Diesel and CNG HDV 14 3. Data Collection 15 3.1. BRTS 15 3.2. AMTS 16 4. Data Analysis and Results 18 4.1. Methodology 18 4.2. Background and scenarios 19 4.3. Analysis 21 4.3.1. Analysis for BRTS route 101 21 4.3.2. Analysis for AMTS route 200 30 4.3.3. Analysis for Overall BRTS 39 4.3.4. Analysis for Overall AMTS 48 4.4. Results 56 5. Conclusions 58 References 59 Annexure 60 ER -