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What India’s cities show us about improving urban mobility

Vehicles jam the road after a flyover was briefly closed to vehicular traffic for precautionary measures following an earthquake in Srinagar October 26, 2015. A powerful earthquake struck a remote area of northeastern Afghanistan on Monday, shaking the capital Kabul with shockwaves being felt in northern India and in Pakistan, where hundreds of people ran out of buildings as the ground rolled beneath them. REUTERS/Danish Ismail TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - GF20000033695

There are large differences in mobility between various Indian cities. Image: REUTERS/Danish Ismail

Prottoy A. Akbar
PhD candidate in Economics, University of Pittsburgh
Victor Couture
Assistant Professor of Real Estate, UC Berkeley Haas School of Business
Gilles Duranton
Professor and Dean's Chair in Real Estate, Real Estate Department, Wharton School
Adam Storeygard
Assistant Professor of Economics, Tufts University
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