Paving the Way for Better Governance in Urban Transport (PDF)

Dr. Kala Seetharam Sridhar is Professor at the Centre for Research in Urban Affairs, Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore. She is a leading international scientific author and has written and edited several books published by Oxford University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Springer and Sage. She was a senior advisor to the Global Development Network's global project on urbanization, and has done various research projects on urbanization for the Asian Development Bank. She was a member of the Scientific Committee of the Urban Transitions 2016 Conference, co-hosted by Yale University and Elsevier. Globally, she is among the top 10% of authors on the Social Science Research Network.

Ranjit Gadgil is Programme Director at Parisar. An IIT graduate, he is currently engaged in research and advocacy related to urban governance. At Parisar, his primary focus is on city planning, sustainable mobility, road safety, and urban environments. Some of the initiatives that he has been involved in are the development of a city bicycle plan and formulation of a pedestrian policy. An avid cyclist, he uses the bicycle for recreation and to commute in the city.


Chhavi Dhingra heads the Capacity Building program for Cities and Transport at WRI India, where she develops strategies for capacity development in the urban mobility ecosystem. She had led various initiatives on behalf of WRI in India like authoring training modules for the Government of India and leading trainings in several states in India. Chhavi was also responsible for the co-creation of WRI's online knowledge sharing platforms like WRI Cities Hub and TheCityFix Learn. She is currently the national lead for Integrated Sustainable Urban Transport Systems for Smart Cities (SMART-SUT) project funded by the German government.