Affiliation(s)
1. Doctoral student, Faculty of Business and Management, Himalayan University, Surat 395009, India;
2. Ph.D. Guide, Visiting Faculty at Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat 395009, India;
3. Faculty of Planning, CEPT University, Ahmedabad 380009, India
ABSTRACT
Surat city is continuously expanding with industrial development.
Despite several flyovers, traffic congestion continues in the heart of city.
Therefore, fresh transportation planning is at anvil. Simultaneously, further expansion
plan is under consideration to create yet another, the 10th industrial zone.
Purpose of this paper is to explore lean management based sustainable transport
system for meeting the increasing needs of
people and supply-chain. The research examines different mode of transportation
like; vehicles on road, rail on the land, and steamers through the sea
route to provide connectivity. This study may support the planners of the smart
city. The study intends to find how lean management can be integrated to
sustainable transport system meeting objectives of lean and sustainability
both. Lean management system claims to be capable of eliminating all type of
wastes including those associated with transport system. On the other hand,
sustainable transport claims to meet the needs of people in personal economic
lives, importantly respecting the need of future generations. Therefore, this applied
research aims to find a lean and sustainable transport solution. This research
work can be seen as descriptive type as it includes survey of location and fact
finding enquiries.
KEYWORDS
Lean management, sustainable development, environment
health and safety, people-planet-profit.
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