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

[Sudhir]

Dear All,

Apologies,
The Sustran List is not taking the attachments.
If anybody wants to have a look at the CTTS chapter on Existing Travel Scenario, I would be happy to provide it to individual mail-id's.

Regards 
Sudhir
Project Engineer,
Highways Div. 
SECON Pvt Ltd. 
147, 7B Road, EPIP, 
Whitefield, Bangalore 560066 
Ph: 080-41197778 (413)


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Sujit Patwardhan 
  To: Sudhir 
  Cc: Puchalsky, Chris ; Global 'South' Sustainable Transport 
  Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 10:51 AM
  Subject: Re: [sustran] Fw: Fw: Re: Traffic Congestion in Bangalore (WITH ATTACHMENT)




  Sudhir,
  I think you missed it again.
  --
  Sujit





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


    OOPs missed the attachment.





    ----- 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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