Transportation
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History of Transport in AV
Auroville residents mostly use personal transport. These include motorcycles and bi-cycles. More and more 4 wheelers are making their way into the community
See also: Mobility
Individual Transport
The Auroville Taxi Service provided taxis to tourists, guests and Aurovilians for over a decade. Since several years, many other taxi services have cropped up around Auroville.
SAIIER Transport Service offers bus service to Pondy two mornings a week. They also provide the daily shuttle to school children during the day and evening to shuttle them back and forth from the Sports Ground.
There have been new electrical vehicle initiative in the last years. Quiet Transport and EV Future team are looking into electric bicycles, motor cycles and solar charging stations. The first Electric Rikshaw is circulating on the Auroville roads
Some years ago Hans,Innovation unlimited introduced his motobike taxi service. Motobikes produce less dust&pollution are more economic and faster.
Collective Transport
Unity Transport Service has branched off from New Creation Transport (taxis) in 2007 to provide Auroville TaxiShare service for taxi pooling.
Auroville Community Transport (ACT) began in 2009 to provide an umbrella of services to promote mass transit in the community of Auroville. The ACT bus service works together with the older SAIIER (school) bus, creating a daily Auroville - Pondy route (different timings each day - see their current schedule in timings). They currently provide regular services to Sadhana Forest, Thiruvanamali and Chennai, also.
