Personalized Subscription-Based Mobility for India in 2040


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Creator/Artist: Angshuman Das

Category: Mobility Design

Batch: P3 Project

Source: India,   IDC IIT Bombay

Period:  2019-onwards

Medium: Report pdf

Supervisor: Prof. Sugandh Malhotra & Prof. Vivek Kant


Detailed Description

This project is a speculative design work where the researcher aims to design a commuting vehicle for working professionals in India in 2040. The researcher first establishes a scenario for India in 2040 by following a speculative future research methodology and the help of industry experts who have been working in the automotive design industry for more than 10 years. Mobility in Indian megacities, such as Mumbai, presents a unique human-centred design problem for public-interest sociotechnical systems. First, India is characterised under the medium-human development index category in the United Nations Development Index. This means that a large number of people lie at the base of the economic pyramid. Despite this fact, at the same time, a handful of Indians also lie at the apex of the pyramid. Thus, in spite of the economic range that Indians fall into, everyone travels for their day-to-day activities, making urban mobility as a public-interest technology a major challenge for human-centred designers in India. Second, India as a nation is undergoing a massive wave of urbanisation due to internal migration towards the mega-cities, such as Mumbai, resulting in an increase in human density in concentrated regions. As a result, there is a growing need for mobility systems in cities for rapid urban transit. These mobility systems imply not only mass-rapid transit but also personal mobility.


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