COMPARISON

SIMILARITIES

• School Bus: In both the countries school buses are often used by students for travelling to school.
• Public transportation: Public means of transportation are frequently used by the citizens.
• Surveying: Surveying was an integral part of data accumulation and report analysis in both the
groups.
• Similar usage of airplanes: In the pre-pandemic period, airplanes were used by the family members at
least 1-2 times annually.
• Work distribution: In both the teams, the surveying and report drafting work was evenly
distributed among the team members of both the groups.
 DIFFERENCES

• Offline vs online: The surveys were conducted online by the Indian group and offline by the Dutch
group.
• Cycles vs private transportation: Cycles are preferred over private transportation in the Netherlands
and the vice versa in India.
• Green to non-green vs Non-green to green: The Dutch are slowly transitioning from cycling to private
transport for convenience while India is moving from private vehicles to greener modes of
transportation for the environment.
• Cycles vs trains: The Dutch prefer using cycles whereas the Indians prefer using trains.
• Very expensive vs cheap public transport: Indian Transportation is cheaper than Dutch
Transportation (₹10/ticket vs €30/month)
REFLECTION
It was indeed exciting to meet the Dutch students who were from a different
cultural background than ours. We got an opportunity to bond with the Dutch
students whom we would not have known better otherwise. This project pushes us
out of our comfort zones so that we can get a sense of the real world.
During this pandemic, although we did not physically venture to the Netherlands,we
got an opportunity to get an insight of the Dutch mode of travelling and their
lifestyle.
The entire journey of working on this project has been an extremely enjoyable and
enlightening one that will be cherished forever. Although this project was time
consuming and took a lot of efforts due to the ongoing pandemic and lockdown
situation, the outcome of it was worth all the efforts taken.
 BONUS AWARENESS ACTIVITY

Having realised the importance of saving the environment, we

deemed it our earnest responsibility to spread awareness
among our neighbours, friends and relatives.
The short animation in the previous slide was sent to various
people via WhatsApp to spread the awareness to travel greener.
By
Anantika Kumar
Raj Dakshit
Suhani Gupta
Rhea Pankaj