[sustran] Re: Fw: Fw: Re: Traffic Congestion in Bangalore (WITH ATTACHMENT)

[Sujit Patwardhan]

Sudhir,
I think you missed it again.
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Sujit




On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Sudhir <sudhir at secon.in> wrote:

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> OOPs missed the attachment.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sudhir" <sudhir at secon.in>
> To: "Puchalsky, Chris" <cpuchalsky at dvrpc.org>; "Global 'South' Sustainable
> Transport" <sustran-discuss at list.jca.apc.org>
> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 9:19 AM
> Subject: [sustran] Fw: Re: Traffic Congestion in Bangalore
>
>
> > Dear All,
> >
> > For a Big city as Bangalore having 39-40% households without any private
> > vehicles (more Captive People), the mode share of pedestrians is
> virtually
> > understated.
> >
> > Please find the excerpt from Comprehensive Traffic and Transportation
> > Study
> > from Bangalore - October - 2007 which is the blue print for future
> > infrastructure management and development.
> >
> > The mode share provided to walk is highly specious as
> >
> >
> > ·        41.91 % of Trips have ingress and egress of maximum of 22%
> > considering all walk, cycling and IPT trips act as feeder to Public
> > Transport (which is again not possible). It is to be added here that
> > Bangalore has very few Park and Ride Facilities. Thus as Mr. Litman has
> > pointed out "walk-bus-walk trip is usually coded simply as a "bus"
> trip".
> > Or
> > probably a layman may not make out exactly what is a "Trip" or due to
> > general prevailing perception of Trip as automobile Trip.
> >
> >
> >
> > ·        Nearly 2% of Households have been captured during
> CTTS-Household
> > Survey.  Bangalore has very high economic & social disparity. In such a
> > sceanrio is 2% good enough sample size?
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards
> > Sudhir
> > Project Engineer,
> > Highways Div.
> > SECON Pvt Ltd.
> > 147, 7B Road, EPIP,
> > Whitefield, Bangalore 560066
> > Ph: 080-41197778 (413)
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Puchalsky, Chris" <cpuchalsky at dvrpc.org>
> > To: <sustran-discuss at list.jca.apc.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 7:07 PM
> > Subject: [sustran] Re: Traffic Congestion in Bangalore
> >
> >
> >>I would like to echo some of the comments about the undercounting of
> >>pedestrian trips.  I strenuously question the 0.07 pedestrian trip rate
> >>cited below. In the greater Philadelphia area, one both wealthier and
> more
> >>sprawling (~500/km2) than Bangalore, we have a pedestrian trip rate for
> >>the
> >>region nearly 10 times as large (~0.61).  The pedestrian trip rates for
> >>the
> >>urban area are even larger.  The survey that we used to estimate this
> trip
> >>rate was very deliberate on counting non-motorized travel.  Any such
> >>similar survey done in Bangalore will surely find rates of non-motorized
> >>travel much greater than those cited below.
> >>
> >>
> >> Christopher M. Puchalsky, Ph.D.
> >> Senior Transportation Engineer
> >> Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission
> >> 190 N. Independence Mall West
> >> Philadelphia, PA 19106-1520
> >> P: 215.238.2949
> >> F: 215.592.9125
> >>
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