POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS FOR CHAOTIC ALIGARH CITY TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

M Y Khan, M Reza, M S Alam, M K Vakil, A Talib

Abstract: The ongoing smart city endeavor in India has to address many challenges related to urbanization, traffic congestion, improper public transportation and pollution. There is an urgent need of cutting edge innovations to solve these problems. It is generally observed that in these underdeveloped cities the traffic becomes uncontrollable due to certain well known reasons much as the traffic jam at city major road intersections, roaming vendors, unmanaged parking, improper roadway designs and also the lack of public awareness. In this paper the data were collected to study the above specified problems were observed for the civil lines area of Aligarh city the information so obtained was analyzed on the grounds of traffic flow at major road intersections, the problems of road design and traffic literacy also considered. On the basis of observations made and the collection of enough data, a model is proposed to combat the peak traffic flows at intersections by implementing a time bound system for vehicles. A scheme for traffic diversion for highly congested road intersection of civil lines area is proposed. The data obtained also represent in the form of bar diagram. Suggestions are given for the formation of well-defined channels to facilitate the smooth flow of improvised and eco-friendly public transport. A proposal for the pollution free vehicles like solar energy& battery based rickshaws is also proposed. Furthermore, a different parking and vendors management solutions are proposed based on the classification of road and traffic conditions at different places. Finally a brief discussion is made about roadway design pattern for such cities to meet the traffic management demands for a smart city.

Keywords: Traffic congestion, internal transportation, parking management

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2017.0607010