PLANNING OF INTERMEDIATE TRANSPORT SYSTEM FOR BENGALURU METROPOLITAN CITY TO COUNTER NOISE AND AIR POLLUTION

M R Raja Shekhara, R. Madhusudhan

Abstract: Intermediate transport system in any city plays a very important role in commuting people for a short distance, and ferries commuters in to the interior of the city thus providing timely service and in depth accessibility. This avoids long waiting time, easy availability on time. But the serious disadvantage is that excess number of such vehicles increases traffic congestion, noise and air pollution in addition to wastage of valuable fuel imported at huge foreign exchange. Proper and scientific planning and issuing permits prevents all the ill effects of excess number of auto rickshaws on the roads. This would relieve many problems the city is currently facing due to large number of such vehicles. This paper deals with a simple methodology of estimating the demand and supply of auto rickshaws and issuing permits only for representative number of vehicles as per the requirements.

Keywords: TRANSPORT SYSTEM

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0318042