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PROMOTING BICYCLE TRANSPORT ON SECONDARY ROADS OF URBAN STREET NETWORK
Krishna Saw M. Tech Student in Trans. Engg., & Planning, SVNIT, Surat e-mail: [email protected]
Balya Manjurali I. M. Tech Student in Trans. Engg., & Planning, SVNIT, Surat e-mail: [email protected]
B.K. Katti Visiting Professor, Civil Engineering Department, SVNIT, Surat
ABSTRACT—Bicycle Transportation is vital for sustainable movements in urban area, as it helps to improve mobility, air quality, reduce congestion, and conserve fuel. Today, transportation systems in most of our cities are no longer sustainable and that is the cause of worry for the planners. Therefore promoting bicycle transportation as major part of Non Motor Vehicle system (NMV) gains due importance in both traffic planning and operation stages. Present paper aims to examine the possible solution to back up the bicycle system and provide policy guidelines to promote such system in urban areas with the focus on movement on lower hierarchical urban roads to provide sustainable transportation. It provides strategies to tilt the travel shift to bicycle usage on tertiary and secondary road of urban areas through proper integration of land use and transportation planning.
KEYWORDS: Bicycle, Secondary Road, Sustainable Transportation
1. INTRODUCTION With the rapid urbanization in developing
countries in general and India in particular, the pressure for a new set of Transport services is increasing in cities, where transport cost are not sustainable to the lower and economically weaker section. The cycle rickshaws and horse drawn tangas emerge here as part of the transportation system. The system suit to meet the rider’s requirements and employment generation in an organized way for short urban trips. Today as animal drawn travel system is fading way due to high maintenance cost, the cycling can be as most effective means of transport within smaller centres. However, the rapid growth in auto vehicle population in recent time has its impact on cycle riding. Looking at the auto traffic hazards, increased transportation cost, road safety and environmental degradation, there is no option but to search for sustainable transportation modes and system and answer lies in strengthening the NMV system with more focus on bicycle usages as it provides nearly three times higher speed than normal walking speed. More ever it is eco-friendly and cost effective for urban poor.
2. METROPOLITAN TRANSIT SCENARIO Urbanization is a significant phenomenon at
national level, after post independence era. It was
17.29% in 1951 and touched 27.75% in just five decades and touched urban population mark of 285 million out of 1027 million in 2001. Impact has been felt maximum on metropolitan transportation system in terms of substantial increase in transport demand and traffic growth resulting in sustainability crisis and distortion in modal split characteristics.
The personalized trips with cars and two wheelers found significant edge over public transit system on one hand and squeezing experience on NMV travel component. The cycling and walking travel component reduce to 10% and 20% for our mega cities respectively. Even the public transit in some of our mega cities such as Ahmedabaad, Hyderabad and Banglore etc are not at the desired mass transit levels. The model split particulars for seven major cities in India reported by Ministry of Urban Development are as shown in Table 1.
Table 1: Modal Split of Few Cities
City Walk Cycle 2 W PT Car IPT Ahm. 22 14 25 16 17 6 Hyd. 22 9 19 35 9 7 Chennai 22 9 20 31 10 8 Bangalore 26 7 17 35 8 7 Delhi 21 12 5 43 14 6 Kolkata 19 11 4 54 8 4 Mumbai 27 6 7 45 8 7
Ahm–Ahmedabad, Hyd–Hyderabaad
262 ♦ National Conference & Workshop: RATE12, SVNIT, Surat (07–09 June 2012)
3. BICYCLE TRAVEL: STATUS As discussed earlier the share of bicycle trips
as a proportion of total trips has declined over the years. The cycle share and their variations in 25 years from 1980 observed for few cities in the country are as shown in Table 2. Significant reduction in cycle travel can be observed in all the cities except Bhopal and Jaipur. Other interesting trend is marginal increase in Bhuneshwar and Surat. Bhopal and Jaipur have shown significant increase in bicycle usage. However the bicycle travel level is below the desirable level shown in table except the case of Nagpur. The socioeconomic characteristics, urban sprawl and form are the important attributes for such variations.
Table 2: Cycle Share in Few Cities (%)
% Modal Share in Total City 1980 1990 2000 2007 Desirable Delhi 20 12 5 12 17.5 BWR 32 23 17 21 30 Indore 27 25 17 16 25 Bhopal NA 9 4 17 25 Ahm. 34 NA 17 14 17.5 Surat NA 20 14 16 20 Nagpur 45 40 35 28 20 Jaipur NA 11 7 19 20
*BWR- Bhuneshwar, Ahm. - Ahmedabad
The urban Auto Trip Rate (ATR) and Cycle Trip Rate (CTR) along with trip length reported in the literature is compiled in Table 3 for cities shown. The Auto Trip Rate (ATR) varied from 0.76 Bhuneshwar to maximum 1.55 (Delhi) and the cycle trips rates are nearly 20% of Auto Trip Rate (ATR). Maximum Cycle trip Rate has been observed in Nagpur (0.361) followed by Bhopal (0.285) and Jaipur (0.239).
Table 3: Per Capita Trip Rate for Few Cities
City ATR CTR ATL CTL Delhi 1.55 0.186 10.2 5.1 Bhuvanshwar 0.76 0.159 3.9 NA Bhopal 1.14 0.285 4.4 NA Ahmedabaad 1.41 0.159 6.2 2.3 Surat 1.28 0.205 6 3.6 Nagpur 1.29 0.361 5 NA Jaipur 1.26 0.239 6 NA
Trip Lengths TL, CTL in km
*NA–Not Available
The Average Trip length for the city is 5 km. The observation on average Cycle Trip Length (CTL) is 3.7 km including capital city of Delhi. It is 2.3 km in Ahmedabaad and 3.6 km in Surat. As such the desired Cycle Trip Length (CTL) is about 2.5 km.
4. STRENGTHENING BICYCLE TRAVEL In fact, cycling can be considered as a
sustainable transport mode for short trip within city zone or the plan modules of Neighbourhoods and TP Schemes. Following are the certain planning measures to enhance bicycle travel.
4.1 Bicycle Catchment Areas and Cycling To promote the bicycle transport at anywhere
in urban area, there is need to determine the potential catchment area for such travel. Most probable catchment areas of bicycle are residential areas belonging to urban plan modules such as Neighbourhood and T. P. Scheme. The bicycles trips are from residential areas to other functional areas to cover the trip length from 0.75 km to 2 km.
4.2 Urban Neighbourhood Module Importance of Neighbourhood and community
planning is realised long ago all world over. Compact Neighbourhood plan modules, covering 3000 to 6000 population with provision of amenities and public utility services to support the planned population. Often community planning comprises are framed cluster of 3-4 Neighbourhoods to cover 15 to 20 thousand populations. Focus here should be on walking and cycle trips to reach primary school, community shops and dispensary etc within 1-1.5km trip length. Walking is preferred up to 600 m distance and cycling can have upto 1-1.5 km.
4.3 TP Scheme Plan Modules Planning and implementations of T. P.
Schemes have become almost part of Urban Development programme in Gujarat and Maharashtra in last two decades, for their effective implementation and execution through Town Planning Act. Each TP Scheme can cover 100 hectare to 150 hectares of area to meet the
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