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

[Sudhir]

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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
>>