Role of Digital Library as Knowledge Sharing Tool to Promote Electric Vehicles in India

Abstract

The Digital Library on Green Mobility (DLGM) aims to provide a platform for sharing ideas, knowledge, and documents among stakeholders of various organizations and institutions involved in Low Carbon Transport in India. It provides full-text access to national and state-level policies, regulations, reports, articles, books, standards, case studies, etc., on green mobility. Following a case study approach, the study highlights the process of developing a knowledge-sharing platform and success of DLGM in meeting the critical objectives. The usage trend and user behaviour of DLGM was analyzed to draw inferences to improve website usability. We briefly discuss how different insights from DLGM can be obtained to benefit a diverse set of stakeholders such as policymakers, practitioners, private companies, and researchers for evidence-based gap identification, decision making, and way forward in various green mobility topics. The study contributes to the original findings based on users’ and website accessibility surveys undertaken by authors.