Planning, Design And Engineering Of Sustainable Urban Transport

India’s three way fast lane of liberalization, privatization and globalization is changing the lifestyles of its people. Increasing production, mobility and consumption are fast changing the patterns of travel and transport. Although transportation is the backbone of economic development, social transformation and urban growth, it suffers from serious problems, severe backlogs and poor planning, implementation and enforcement. The runaway growth of automobiles poses a considerable threat to the society in the form of traffic congestion, road accidents, pollution, noise stress, etc. Traditional solutions to cope up with the demand of increasing traffic have resulted into widening of roads up to the brim and parking spill over on the sidewalks thus eating away the area meant for the pedestrians and cyclists. Various studies indicate that the ownership of the private vehicles in urban areas is growing three to four times the population growth rate. The construction of flyovers, underpasses or grade separators is a temporary solution to congestion on the roads and if not planned carefully public transport may not necessarily reduce the volume of personal vehicles on the roads. The share of cycles, and non motorised vehicles (NMVs) is dwindling in Indian cities, which usually lack dedicated and safe right of way. In Indian cities as transport infrastructure usually guides the land use and planned residential areas along major arteries get converted to commercial and other uses. Parking is emerging as a major problems besides frequent traffic jams. The inadequacy of resources for road construction and poor maintenance add to traffic problems.

1. Accessible City

2. Airports

3. Bicycles and Rickshaw

4. Bus Transport

5. Capacity Improvement and Traffic Congestion

6. Corridor Planning

7. Crash Barriers, Railings and Dividers

8. Drainage

9. 11th Five Year Plan: Urban Transport

10. Emissions and Transportation

11. Financing and Partnerships for Transport

12. Freight Movement and Terminals

13. Fuel Stations

14. Grade Separators

15. Hoardings

16. Informal Transport

17. Intelligent Transit Systems (ITS)

18. Junctions

19. Kinetic Vehicles

20. Landscaping and Roadside Plantation

21. Metropolitan Passenger Terminal (MPT)

22. Metro

23. Mobility Planning

24. Multi-modal Transport

25. Transport Terminals

26. National Highways

27. National Urban Transport Policy

28. Non-Motorised Transport (NMT)

29. Origin-Destination Traffic Surveys

30. Parking

31. Pedestrian Mobility

32. Personal Rapid Transit (PRT)

33. Quality Assurance in Public Transport

34. Railway/Rail –based Urban Transport

35. Road Safety and Audit

36. Road Maintenance

37. Signage, Symbols and Road Marking

38. Signals

39. Simulation

40. Street lighting

41. Streetscaping

42. Traffic Calming

43. Tunnels/Underground Roads

44. Utilities and Services

45. Unified Traffic and Transport Authority

46. Variable Message Signs

47. Vehicle Quota System

48. Work Zone Management

49. X and Y-Junctions

50. Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV)

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