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Public transport including formal and informal (Paratransit) transport plays an important role in all major cities throughout the world. One of the important issue regarding this type of transport is passenger’s satisfaction. In context of Pakistan, only few studies were conducted on the satisfaction studies regarding public transport. Furthermore, quality of public transport service as per consumers’ desires is an important issue nowadays. This study aims to assess the citizen’s perceived satisfaction regarding the quality of Paratransit public transport as well as to provide guidelines in order to improve the conditions of transportation system. Sample size for the present study was selected as 384 and an online questionnaire survey methodology with simple random sampling was implied to collect the desired data. Respondents filled Likert-scale based questions focusing demographics of the area, and R programming associated with R studio utilized for data analysis. In addition, statistical correlation was also implied to describe the relationship of various factors on overall public transport satisfaction level of people. Study is significant in terms of indicating the alarming situation of public transport in Hyderabad city and providing the public transport satisfaction related statistics, which allows policy planners to make the transport policies as per public interest.

Road safety accompanying the growing numbers of Road Traffic Deaths (RTDs), is an alarming issue of the present century which is also recognized in WHO agenda-2030. All countries across the globe are facing this issue, but it pertains in developing world where rapid motorization results into high mortality rates. This study considered Pakistan, a developing country from Global south to discuss the issue of RTDs and its relationship with rapid vehicle growth. The objective of the study is to highlight the present situation of road safety especially RTDs and develop models to identify the possible impacts of vehicle growth on RTDs. Linear Regression was performed to develop three models to explain RTDs vs registered vehicle, registered motor cars and registered motorcycles respectively. Descriptive statistics shows the increasing trend of all selected variables which further explained by liner regression equation. Results indicates that annual proportional change in RTDs explain by total registered vehicles, motor cars and motorcycles are 84%, 66% and 80% respectively and comparatively motor cars, motorcycles contributing more arise of RTDs. Study highlights the need of attention towards RTDs and provide models to predict increasing RTDs with vehicle growth. Study is significant as it highlights present situati

Major cities in Pakistan are experiencing rapid growth of urban population, resulted in high energy demand and viable severe energy crisis.In this regard, easy retrieval of solar energy can play a pivotal role to cater the mounting demand of energy. Solar energy can be said as a topographical asset of Pakistan; but still,a low adoption of this environment-friendly source was observed by countrymen. Residential units are one of the major consumers of energy. Thus, public opinion can be considered as a key factor to judge the perception of renewable energy in any society. Therefore, it is obligatory to adopt the practices, which could explore the acceptance of renewable clean energy sources. Hence, the purpose of this study is to deliver empirical data about the social acceptance of clean energy, i.e. solar panels, by discovering the public opinion about solar energy. Hyderabad, Pakistan was selected as a case study. The Facebook-based Questionnaire Survey was adopted to procure data, and the sample size was determined with the help of Taro method. This study is imperative in a sense that it can be important for policy makers to have a precise knowledge about public perceptions towards solar energy. By investigating the public attitudes towards consumption of solar energy; it becomes easier to comprehend the future of solar energy practice in Sindh province, particularly in Hyderabad, Pakistan.