INDUS


		INDUS

INDUS stands for Initiatives in Developing Urban Systems. INDUS primarily focuses on capacity building in urban planning and governance in South Asia. An ongoing project involves digitizing census geography for three cities in Pakistan. The GIS-based analysis of demographic and housing data will assist urban planners and government officials in planning and managing the three developing cities, Rawalpindi, Islamabad, and Lahore.

The following is a list of some projects that Regionomics and its associates have worked on in the South Asian context:

	Drs. Badami and Haider have analyzed the operational characteristics of public bus transit in Indian cities. For a copy of the study, please click HERE.
	Regionomics participated in a Conference on *Urban Infrastructure, Transport & Environment in India, which was organized by the Centre for India and South Asia Research at the University of British Columbia. The conference agenda is available HERE. Professor Haider's presentation on Public Participation and Transparency in Infrastructure Development* is available HERE.
	Drs. Haider and Badami studied the transport needs of urban poor and low-income households in Pakistan. This study will appear as a book chapter in a book to be published in 2006 by the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars (WWICS). Their study can be downloaded in Adobe PDF format by clicking HERE.
	Professor Badami's paper on Motorized two-wheeled vehicle emissions in India that was published in Energy Policy 32 (2004).
	Professor Badami's paper on Transport and Urban Air Pollution in India in Environmental Management 36(2005).
	Professor Badami's paper on *The urban transport challenge in India* in IDPR 27 (2005).
	Dr. Haider contributed an article to daily Dawn on Karachi Mass Transit in December 2004. The article is available from the newspaper's website. A PDF version of the same article is available here.
	Regionomics has authored a book chapter on urbanization and sustainability in Pakistan for a book to be published by the Asian Development Bank. The chapter addresses the issues of urbanization, devolution and municipal service delivery in Pakistan. The chapter is available here.
	Professor Haider has produced a brief on *Urbanization Challenges in Pakistan* for Vision 2030 being developed by the Government of Pakistan. The text could be read by clicking here.
	Regionomics was retained by the United Nations Population Fund to train the statisticians at the Federal Bureau of Statistics in *Geographic Information Systems* (GIS). A project report on GIS training is available HERE.
	Using a GIS-based street network files for the three cities, Regionomics is creating a polygon map of census circles and charges. The Rawalpindi GIS-based land use map of Rawalpindi can be viewed here, while the Census maps can be viewed by clicking here.
	Anjuman Samaji Behbood (ASB) an NGO striving to improve municipal service delivery in Pakistan.