Vision Harnessing the potential of mobility and digital platforms to help cities transition towards a sustainable, resilient, and equitable future.
About OMI
OMI Foundation Trust is a policy research and social innovation think tank operating at the intersection of mobility innovation, governance, and public good. Mobility is a cornerstone of inclusive growth providing the necessary medium and opportunity for every citizen to unlock their true potential. OMI Foundation endeavours to play a small but impactful role in ushering meaningful change as cities move towards sustainable, resilient, and equitable mobility systems which meet the needs of not just today or tomorrow, but the day after.
OMI Foundation houses three interconnected centres which conduct cutting-edge evidence-based policy research on all things mobility:
Centre for Clean Mobility
Explores the diversity of near- and long-term pathways to clean mobility. It focuses on the use of electric, future fuels, and renewable energy alike within the mobility ecosystem.
Centre for Future Mobility
Envisions a future which meets the aspirations of all in a diverse world, anchored in the paradigms of active, shared, connected, clean, and AI-powered mobility.
Centre for Inclusive Mobility
Ensures the existing and emerging mobility paradigms are Safe, Accessible, Reliable, and Affordable for every user of mobility infra and services, including persons with disabilities, women, LGBTQIA+, children, and the elderly.It further paves the road for the future of work and platform economy to fulfil the modern promise of labour.
Areas of Work
Centre for Clean Mobility
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Electric Mobility
OMI leverages data-driven insights to provide actionable policy recommendations on all issues concerning EVs, to ensure no one is left behind . Equitable transition and circular economy are the cornerstones of our research as we move towards an EV future.
Dashboards
OMI explores the diversity of pathways to clean energy transitions in mobility, including interim solutions for low-carbon mobility. We seek to unlock the true potential of sustainable alternatives through our research, analysis, advocacy and outreach to key stakeholders.
Publications and Announcements
OMI envisions a future which meets the aspirations of the masses anchored in attributes of shared, connected, equitable, and sustainable mobility. Our research strengthens collective views on sustainable urban mobility, emerging technologies, data-driven mobility governance, and strengthening of public and intermediate public transport (Shared Mobility).
Publications and Announcements
City Sense provides intelligent insights to policymakers and regulators for improving evidence-based governance in cities. City Sense is powered by anonymised, aggregated, non-personal and non-business sensitive data generated through OMI’s research and millions of trips on the Ola platform across the globe.
Publications and Announcements
OMI’s research aims at paving the road towards platform jobs fulfilling the modern promise of labour. We recommend effective and innovative ways to unlock jobs in the platform economy, strengthen asset ownership, drive financial inclusion, and guarantee social security.
Publications and Announcements
Safe, Accessible, Reliable, and Affordable (SARA) Mobility systems are life arteries of an economy. OMI’s research explores the opportunity for inclusive mobility systems to unlock the full value of human capital, for every user of mobility infra and services, including persons with disabilities, women, LGBTQIA+, children, and the elderly.
Publications and Announcements
The Ease of Moving Dashboard by OMI Foundation is a one-stop solution on how India moves. The dashboard presents data and insights from the Ease of Moving Index, which measures and benchmarks mobility scenarios in cities. This first-of-its-kind framework entails 9 parameters, 41 indicators, and 110 metrics, creating a comprehensive understanding of a city and citizens’ mobility patterns, needs, aspirations, and challenges. The thrust is on:
Impetus for Active and Shared Mobility: Evaluating initiatives and infrastructure that promote walking, cycling, and shared transport options
Seamless Mobility: Assessing the integration and efficiency of different modes of transport
Towards Vision Zero: Focusing on road safety and aiming to reduce traffic fatalities and serious injuries
Mobility for All: Ensuring equitable access to transportation for all demographics
Affordable Mobility: Measuring the cost-effectiveness and financial accessibility of transport options
Efficient and Reliable Mobility: Analysing the reliability and time efficiency of transport systems
Clean Mobility: Assessing the environmental impact of transport modes
Future Mobility: Exploring the adoption and integration of innovative transportation technologies
Investment in City: Evaluating the extent and effectiveness of investments in urban transport infrastructure
Through the Index, OMI Foundation endeavours to create mobility baselines for cities, benchmark improvements achieved on each mobility parameter over the years, and foster a competitive spirit amongst the cities to improve mobility holistically and in a sustainable fashion.
The EV-Ready India Dashboard by OMI Foundation is a one-stop-solution for all-things-electric mobility. It aims to harness the power of data and AI to equip stakeholders with insights needed for the rapid adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) in India. It provides data on
EV sales and forecasts
Battery demand forecasts
Charging infrastructure availability
Investments in EV ecosystem
Research and development clusters
Policies including fiscal and non-fiscal incentives across the EV value chains
Ease of Moving - India Report 2022 - Chennai City Profile
The Ease of Moving - India Report 2022 - Chennai City Profile is an extension of the Ease of Moving Index - India Report 2022, an outcome of India’s largest mobility survey measuring and benchmarking mobility scenarios across 9 parameters, 110+ indicators, 50,000+ citizens, and 40 cities. The profile, offers a detailed evaluation of the city's mobility framework, identifying areas for improvement and highlighting successful initiatives. It is a strategic tool that empowers the city and its citizens to navigate the path towards sustainable mobility. It exemplifies the importance of data-driven strategies in fostering urban environments that prioritise sustainability and inclusivity. Explore the findings and shape future mobility in Chennai!
Moving While Woman: Bindu's Big City Journey- A Data Comics
Moving While Woman: Bindu's Big City Journey, is an innovative data comics that dives deep into the unique experiences of women navigating urban mobility in India. This captivating visual narrative illuminates the nuanced differences women and trans/non-binary people encounter while moving - ranging from safety concerns and accessibility limitations to the pervasive issues of harassment and unequal access to public transportation. The comics also examines how mobility issues can be magnified for women from marginalised castes and communities, women with disabilities, elderly women, women travelling with children and trans/non-binary people. Step into Bindu's shoes as she navigates the Indian metropolis, uncovering the trials, tribulations and triumphs that come with being an Indian woman on the move!
The Ease of Moving Index factsheets are an extension of the Ease of Moving Index - India Report 2022. They provide a snapshot of specific aspects of mobility across the 40 cities. These snapshots focus on four key dimensions: travel characteristics, public transport services, mobility infrastructure, and future mobility prospects. The factsheets provide stakeholders with essential insights to understand mobility within their respective cities. The information presented enables data driven decision making and work towards creating a more efficient, inclusive, and sustainable mobility system for the benefit of all.
Ease of Moving Index is India’s largest-ever mobility survey, covering 50,000+ respondents stratified by gender, disability, and
income across 40 cities. The study sets mobility scores and ranks cities on 9 parameters covering
40+indicators which will be updated regularly in future years. Pune-Pimpri Chinchwad, Mumbai, and Coimbatore top the #EaseOfMoving list in this edition. The 2022 edition also places emphasis on active and shared
mobility as a key enabler of clean mobility. The index aims to enable policy makers, urban planners, practitioners, and businesses to improve ease of moving by
creating a mobility baseline.Explore the findings and shape future mobility in your city!
The twin pathways of electric mobility and transport powered by future fuels will define India's journey to net zero. This report by OMI assesses the current policy framework, viability, sustainability, and supply chain processes of five alternatives to the energy guzzling fossil fuel - viz. bioethanol, bio-CNG, biodiesel, methanol, and green hydrogen, in the country. The report lays out opportunities, challenges, and the way ahead for India to unlock the full potential of these future fuels.
Access to inclusive and affordable public transport is essential for full and effective participation of citizens in an economy. This is especially true for the various mobility-disadvantaged groups such as women, persons with disabilities (PwDs) and the elderly. Although travel subsidies exist to make transportation affordable and inclusive for these groups, several operational and economic inefficiencies exist in the current delivery models.
OMI's award-winning Digital Mobility Subsidy concept holds the potential to revolutionise the subsidy delivery model in the mobility ecosystem. More than 23 crores urban women, PwDs and elderly will benefit from affordable and inclusive transport and mobility upon the full-implementation of this innovative tech-solution.
India ranks 220th in women labour force participation (WLFP), out of 235 countries and regions for which employment data is available. Even as numerous policy interventions target the conventional factors affecting the WLFP, there is potential to do more. Therefore, OMI and Koan Advisory Group explore the interplay between digital gender divide and labour force participation. Through a primary survey of 4,000 women across 10 cities, the study showcases how access to the internet can indeed improve WLFP.
Powering Transport Through Hydrogen: Tracing History, Opportunities, and Current Trends
This issue brief attempts to study the emergence of hydrogen, and the prospect of green hydrogen as the future fuel particularly for transport. It examines the history of mobility using hydrogen and highlights the drivers that have emerged in recent times to make it an option for consideration, particularly green hydrogen. The brief points to the current trends on the policy landscape in India around green hydrogen, and highlights the markets that have put forth a policy ecosystem for the hydrogen market through strategy and implementation for ensuring its realisation. Based on this examination, the paper indicates some concerns that need more attention to push for a green hydrogen ecosystem in India.
Activating urban mobility in India: Reclaiming the public realm through tactical urbanism
Tactical urbanism serves as a means to ensure that the residual spaces in urban areas can be revitalised, through a citizen-led approach. However, in India, tactical urbanism projects have had a difficult time scaling up. They are regarded as demonstration projects or informal measures addressing urban issues. Therefore, the aim of this issue brief is to present tactical urbanism guidelines with regulatory and institutional bearing, which mainstreams the use of tactical interventions for promoting active mobility. This issue brief presents case studies from San Francisco, New York, Vermont, Copenhagen, and Sao Paulo to highlight the roadmap that these global cities have followed - from demonstration to pilot, and finally permanent fixtures. This issue brief presents a framework that outlines immediate and long-term strategies for Indian cities to revitalise the public realm by means of tactical interventions.
Influence of Digital Accessibility in Urban Mobility
Digitalisation plays an essential role in advancing the Avoid-Shift-Improve (ASI) framework for sustainable mobility. It helps in reducing or eliminating the need to travel (teleworking and e-commerce), facilitates a shift to shared mobility (mobility aggregators and passenger information systems), and improves efficiency through vehicle technology (electric, connected, and autonomous vehicles). However, digitalisation risks disenfranchising over 100 million Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) living in India, if these digital technologies are not made accessible (usable) for this community. This issue brief aims to unpack the barriers to digital accessibility encountered by PwDs in mobility systems and offers recommendations to make mobility systems more inclusive.
Waste to Wheel: Mainstreaming bio-CNG for Mobility in Indian Cities
Urban India faces a critical challenge of an exploding growth of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW). A waste-to-wheel approach attempts to mitigate this challenge through bio-CNG, a clean fuel generated from the organic fraction of MSW. This issue brief explores the role of bio-CNG in decarbonising mobility in Indian cities. It attempts to get underneath the existing structure of India’s policy and financial support system towards its promotion. Some challenges have been highlighted in terms of feedstock procurement, financial support, pricing mechanism, and waste management ecosystem. The paper advocates for the mainstreaming of bio-CNG by mitigating these challenges, primarily through policy interventions.
The electric mobility revolution is gathering momentum in India with the country witnessing a rapid growth in the number of electric vehicles (EVs). This rise in EVs will also mean an increase in discarded batteries. It is of utmost importance that the expensive batteries are leveraged and utilised to their full potential. For this, the sector should focus on refurbishing and recycling the discarded EV batteries to capitalise on the remaining rare materials and reduce residual waste. Since the EV penetration in India is still nascent, there is an opportunity to create a refurbishing ecosystem for used batteries. Second-life batteries provide a reliable, cheap, and efficient solution for stationary storage applications and could potentially solve India’s energy crisis to a substantial extent. This Issue Brief, thus, explores second-life applications of used EV batteries that will prove beneficial in the Indian context. It further presents viable recommendations to mainstream secondary use of EV batteries in India.
Opening up Mobility Data:Opportunities to revolutionise urban mobility in India
The multiplicity of actors from federal and state governments to urban local bodies renders governance of urban mobility rather complex and at times, ineffective. There is a need therefore to unpack the interdependencies of different actors and functions, and adopt a comprehensive, coordinated, and uniform data-driven decision-making approach in the mobility domain across all cities and towns in India. Situated in this backdrop, this Issue Brief focuses on opening up mobility data to revolutionise urban mobility in India. Building on global evidence, this Brief highlights the impact of open data on journey time and travel experiences, fostering innovation, and creating jobs. It takes the perspective of the ecosystem involved in the mobility data ecosystem, enumerates the challenges and opportunities in collecting and sharing mobility related data.
The Parking Paradox of Urban India: Creating a demand-supply equilibrium
Around a century ago, American cities began adopting parking minimums, requiring new developments to provide a particular number of parking spaces. Today, this archaic approach has taken over the world, driving up the demand for cars and parking alike. It is an unstated expectation that parking must be free for all. India is no different. Readily available parking adversely affects sustainable development while a lack of parking in commute hubs is a detriment to the growth of public transport. Situated in this context, this issue brief highlights the socio-economic and environmental costs of free parking, which sets the stage for rethinking parking policy in India. It further analyses global strategies to help manage the parking demand in Indian cities.
The world is rapidly transitioning to an electric mobility future, with the demand for electric vehicle (EV) manufacturing, servicing, repair, maintenance, and recycling poised to increase drastically. This surge in demand is an opportunity for India, one of the most populous countries in the world and a seasoned exporter of skilled and semi-skilled labour, to plug the supply gap in the global workforce. This Issue Brief builds on extensive stakeholder consultations and secondary data analysis, to underscore intersections between EVs and the future of work, with a focus on skilling today for tomorrow’s technology and industrial aspirations.
The Power of Pedals: Mainstreaming cycling in India through public bicycle sharing (PBS)
India - a major global economy with a large population but extremely low vehicle penetration - is well poised to ride the wave of shared mobility. As of 2011, nearly half of the daily commute in urban India comprised cycling and walking. However, over the years, the patronage for cycling has declined. In an era where digitalisation of mobility is rampant, new-age public bicycle sharing (PBS) is common, and there is heightened environmental consciousness among the masses, what explains this decreasing preference for cycling, especially among non-livelihood cyclists? This white paper investigates this pertinent question in the larger socio-economic context of India, studies the benefits and impact of PBS, and delineates the barriers to mainstreaming cycling in general and scaling up PBS in particular.
Giving wings to a drone-powered India: Mapping enablers and opportunities
Commercial usage of drones is gaining momentum the world over. From aiding aerial photography for journalism, film or at weddings to delivering vaccines and medicines to remote corners of a country, drones have a host of applications. Unsurprisingly, investments in drone technologies are soaring as research estimates galloping growth for drones in the coming decade. Governments in India and elsewhere, for their part, are welcoming these initiatives and hoping to unlock the full potential of drones in driving economic growth. Due to the nascent stage of this sector, the time is ripe for concerted efforts among the government, industry, and civil society to resolve uncertainties on safety, security, privacy, and other regulatory and governance issues. In this context, this white paper outlines the enablers that could help build a thriving ecosystem for drones, suited for India, with learnings for the world.
On the Move: Urban travel experiences of Persons with Disabilities and a path to build more inclusive transport systems
As we move towards smart, sustainable and resilient mobility, there is a need to ensure that these systems are accessible and inclusive for all, including for Persons with Disabilities. This report documents the travel experience of persons with disabilities. This study was conducted in collaboration with eight organisations working for the empowerment of persons with disabilities. The report captures a detailed account of lived travel experiences of women and men with disabilities across the trip chain for buses, metros & local trains as well as intermediate public transport. The study also highlights the impact of the pandemic on the travel experiences of this community. This report makes detailed recommendations which can serve as a blueprint for making transport systems more accessible.
Autonomous On-demand Mobility: First-of-its-kind AI-led public transport for India
The OMI Foundation presents a first-of-its-kind AI-led public transport solution imagined for India and the world called ‘ATOM’ - ‘AuTonomous On-demand Mobility’. ATOM is an Artificial Intelligence based Public Transportation concept to provide a demand-responsive service in cities through access controlled roads. ATOM is a concept at the intersection of Shared, Connected, Electric, and AI-powered mobility presented as an alternative to metro rail and Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) to provide equitable, viable, clean, efficient, and demand-responsive public transportation for cities.
EV-Ready India: Leveraging Competitive Advantages of States for EV Manufacturing
Over the last few years, there has been growing encouragement of local manufacturing of lithium-ion batteries and other EV components with policy measures such as the PLI scheme and proposals for manufacturing giga factories entering the fray. In light of a tumultuous and unpredictable global trade environment, localisation of value chains and production capabilities has become a necessity, especially with the pandemic-induced disruption of supply chains overly dependent on China. This white paper locates itself in the context of such challenges and opportunities for India’s EV manufacturing industry. It underscores the potential of Indian States to help India become an EV manufacturing powerhouse. Identifying certain vital factors that are essential for a region’s manufacturing success, it points out states which possess a competitive advantage under the given domain. The white paper argues for states to strategically realign their supply-side incentives and industrial policy tenets to fully leverage their respective competitive advantages to hasten the creation of robust, localised EV value chains that can cater to the world.
Buses Without Barriers: Evaluating Accessibility of Buses in Urban India
India has a large population of transport-disadvantaged people- people who experience barriers in accessing mainstream public transport. This includes Persons with Disabilities, the elderly and those with situational and temporary impairments. Despite sustained policy efforts to empower Persons with Disabilities (PwD), a large proportion of public buses in India (over 93%) are not fully accessible for this community. This white paper reviews state-issued standards of bus accessibility and procurement frameworks to highlight how accessibility and inclusive design can be prioritised in bus procurement. It also reviews international policies that utilise procurement and regulations to mainstream accessibility in public transport.
Women in the Platform Economy: Breaking Barriers and Driving Inclusive Growth
OMI Foundation and Children's Investment Fund Foundation collaborated on the report, titled, Women in the Platform Economy: Breaking Barriers and Driving Inclusive Growth. The study adopts a mixed-methods approach to understand motivations, incentives and challenges of women workers in the platform economy. The findings of the report are based on extensive surveys of women who are platform workers and those who aspire to be so, and stakeholder consultations with businesses, research organisations and government. This report would act as a primer in understanding the intersectionality between women’s economic participation and the platform economy. The future of work for women holds immense promise, to be fulfilled by the collective action of all stakeholders. We believe that this report and its offshoots would catalyse women’s economic empowerment in India.
Asset Ownership in the Indian Economy: Contesting Traditional Conceptions
Research shows that asset ownership is the surefire way of monetising investments and creating a productive cycle of savings multiplication. However, the Indian economy at large remains low on asset uptake outside of land and gold. This white paper investigates the nuances of asset ownership among lower income groups and the impact it has on their household earnings and the community at large. It also identifies the scope for future research to provide greater insights into the interplay between asset ownership among poorer households, the model of platform economy businesses and the state-led aspirations for sustainable asset creation.
Unlocking Jobs in the Platform Economy: Propelling India's post-Covid Recovery
Last year, we witnessed a new face of resilience taking shape. Platform workers emerged as the superheroes who kept neighbourhoods connected, and ensured the supply of essential goods and movement of essential personnel. By working closely with city authorities, platforms and platform workers laid a strong foundation of social partnerships, thus paving the way for a far more resilient world. This was made possible by the digital-cum-economic leap India made between 2010 and 2020 - the time period that marks the genesis and rapid growth of platforms in the country. Today, as India marches towards economic rejuvenation, would platform workers who gained prominence as the new category of workers in the 21st century, remain relevant?
This report provides evidence of the socio-economic impact of platforms and points at how the platform economy is restructuring jobs in the 21st century. It also argues that this form of work is here to stay, and delineates circumstances that would enable the same.
Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) in India: Potential and Scope for Driving EV Adoption
India has committed itself to increase the number of Electric Vehicles (EVs) in its motor fleet with a slew of supply and demand-side measures to boost their uptake. This White Paper considers the role Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) technology can play in driving EV adoption in the country. V2G has emerged as a novel value stream for EV owners and represents a potential global opportunity worth USD 17.43 billion. With India heightening its efforts towards a shared, electric and connected future, this paper locates V2G as a potentially disruptive instrument in achieving India’s adoption targets. The paper outlines a range of principles to guide future policy action in this domain and show the way for further research, collaboration and innovation.
Bridging Policy and Innovation: Using regulatory sandbox to drive new mobility innovations
Mobility is transcending the traditional notion of traveling, hurtling towards automation, IoT and MaaS among other things. Technologies and business models are constantly evolving to keep pace with changing preferences and solutions. However, the pertinent question is whether the current regulatory framework provides an enabling environment for these innovations and technologies to create impact at scale. Accessibility, diversity, inclusion and transparency are not fully enabled under the current regulatory approach. Enter regulatory sandboxing! A regulatory sandbox provides a framework to live test innovation concepts in a controlled regulatory environment. Sandboxing enables regulators to work with innovators in mitigating risks of implementing a new solution, and develop data-driven, evidence-based policies for new technologies. This Issue Brief presents the framework of a regulatory sandbox, its advantages, evaluating its success and analyses the use of regulatory sandbox for mobility innovations. As Indian cities arrive at the cusp of a mobility revolution, regulatory sandboxing could potentially determine the way forward in enabling innovation.
Women in the driving seat: Studying the interplay between gender and asset ownership in the platform economy
For half a century now, Indian women’s labour force participation has only declined. A myriad of socio-economic and cultural factors heavily influence women’s participation in the economy. While India needs to urgently bring a series of structural reforms to improve gender parity, this Issue Brief focuses on the interplay between gender and asset ownership on women’s labour force participation. The brief further explores the role of the platform economy in improving women’s participation given the gender gap in asset ownership. Through a thorough sociological inquiry, this issue brief finds that the platform economy offers two distinct advantages, asset monetisation and flexibility, which have remained elusive in traditional models. Additionally, platforms augment asset ownership, further catalysing women’s labour force participation. Thus, labour force participation is no longer a binary decision between household duties and economic aspirations, but women now have the choice to work at will.
Reimagining Social Protection in the 21st century: Operationalising the Code on Social Security 2020
The introduction of the Code on Social Security (CoSS) 2020 leads the labour regulatory regime away from centuries-old restrictive worker classification that creates two types of labour- those that are protected with secure jobs and futures and those that are not. OMI Foundation's brief, titled, Reimagining Social Protection in the 21st century: Operationalising the Code on Social Security 2020, highlights what India gets right in its latest legislative attempt: the status of workers should not be tied to the benefits offered by the job and workers should be able to commit a suitable time to the job without fear of losing their social security. As India prepares to implement its social security law, this brief presents a set of guiding principles for the governments to consider.
Electrification of On-demand Mobility in Delhi: Identification of Strategic Locations for public EV Charging Stations in Delhi
OMI Foundation and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) collaborated to develop a framework on identifying strategic locations for public EV charging stations in the policy brief titled, 'Electrification of On-demand Mobility in Delhi: Identification of Strategic Locations for public EV Charging Stations in Delhi'. The policy brief briefly explains the data-based model that has been developed based on parameters such as trip data, vehicle cost, fuel cost, land cost, electricity generation and demand and identifies municipal ward wise charging locations required in Delhi. The findings from the policy brief can be used by the government, businesses and urban planners, among others, to effectively plan Delhi’s public charging infrastructure.
Leveraging and Protecting the Gig Economy against COVID-19 - Measures by Gig Economy and Governments around the World
COVID-19 is an unprecedented crisis of our time that has caught the world off-guard. OMI Foundation's report, titled, "Leveraging and Protecting the Gig Economy against COVID-19 - Measures by Gig Economy and Governments around the World", highlights the role of government, platforms companies and gig workers in providing essential services to society, crisis management, accelerating recovery and building resilience. The report provides an outlook into the measures adopted by platform companies and governments around the world for gig workers due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
The Power of Two Wheels - Bike-Taxis: India’s New Shared Mobility Frontier
India is the world’s largest two-wheeler market and two-wheelers have emerged as the engine of growth for the booming on-demand, hyperlocal economy. OMI Foundation's report on Bike-Taxis in India, titled, ‘The Power of Two Wheels - Bike-Taxis: India’s New Shared Mobility Frontier’ delves into empirically understanding the impact of bike-taxis on urban transportation, employment generation, financial inclusion, economic growth and income augmentation in India.
The report estimates that bike-taxi in India has the potential to create over 2 million livelihood opportunities and a revenue of USD 4-5 billion. The report analyses data from Ola’s bike-taxi operations and interviews with 100+ drivers affiliated to bike-taxi platforms in Gurugram and Jaipur.
OMI Foundation and World Economic Forum collaborated on the report, titled “EV-Ready India Part 1: Value Chain Analysis of State EV Policies” uses a value chain framework to analyse the EV policies in 10 Indian states. The value chain framework pays attention to the multisectoral and multistakeholder aspects of EV policies, divided into three different value chains: electric vehicles; charging; and the surrounding network.
As India prepares to decarbonize its transport sector, curb pollution and reduce dependence on oil imports,
OMI Foundation provides the much-needed blueprint for acceleration of EV adoption in the country. By studying the
operational
issues - ranging from vehicle performance, customer charging behaviour, the impact of temperature on
charging and
battery life, to the integration of renewables at the charging station, among others - OMI draws upon the
learnings from
the country’s first multimodal electric mobility project in Nagpur. Download the report now to know how
India can deploy
over a million EVs for everyday commute by 2020.
At a time, when women’s mobility has captured everyone’s
imagination, OMI Foundation analyzed data from 11 cities
with 9935 female respondents to understand women’s travel
preferences and expectations from urban transportation systems.
The empirical evidence emphasizes the importance of including
women and girls' perspectives across income groups and occupations
when preparing transportation plans and policies and makes
recommendations to urban mobility surveys. Download the report t
know what women and girls want from our urban mobility systems.
To evaluate mobility scenarios in urban agglomerations, OMI
Foundation has developed a unique evaluation framework
called the Ease of Moving Index. In its first edition in
2018, the Index has considered 50+ parameters grouped under the
three pillars of People, Infrastructure, and Sustainability, for
evaluating mobility scenarios. A first-of-its kind mobility survey
of over 43,000 respondents has been carried out in 20 foremost
cities in India. Further, secondary data from cities and
aggregate-level anonymized rides data from Ola have been analysed
for this evaluation.
The Ease of Moving Index aims to support policymakers,
planners and practitioners, and businesses and citizens alike to
identify mobility requirements of cities in India, challenges
faced by the public, and aspirations of the citizens. The Index
helps promote sustainable mobility through emerging technologies
and business models, and enables cities to benchmark their
performance with other comparable cities on various predetermined
mobility parameters. The Index provides for an overall score cum
ranking of each city, with the OMI Foundation aspiring to
release annual Ease of Moving Index rankings for cities to
benchmark improvements achieved on each of the parameters and
enable a competitive spirit amongst the cities to improve mobility
holistically and in a sustainable fashion.
People The team at OMI includes strategic thinkers, developmental scientists, researchers, climate change and public policy specialists trained around the world.
Trustees
Gautam Bambawale
Harish Abichandani
Team
Aishwarya Raman
Executive Director
Apoorv Kulkarni
Head, Research Head, Centre for Inclusive Mobility