Travel Time and Delay Study of Selected Links of Kalupur Area – Ahmedabad

Abstract

Road transportation have more significant than other (Rail, Air, Water) tradition transpiration facility in India. India has second largest road network across the world at 4.7 million km. This road network transports more than 60 per cent of all goods in the country and 85 per cent of India's total passenger traffic. Road transportation has gradually increased over the years with the improvement in connectivity between cities, towns and villages in the country. Along with the increasing in vehicle population is also encountered. India is now suffering from complex problem of highly increasing vehicle population and that resulting in other transpiration problems like congestion, travel time delay, accidents etc. The increase in population and motor vehicles requires more efficient transportation systems to provide safe and economic transport of goods and passengers. To study the traffic characteristics on road network there is a need to study the existing traffic conditions. For that the traffic surveys are carried out on selected stretches of Kalupuar area of Ahmedabad city. The specific purposes of this research is to identify Level of service and locations of delays to determine the significant factors causing these delays by using Floating car method, license plate method and GPS method to make recommendations for improving the flow of traffic. Travel time data was collected by license plate method and by GPS during morning and evening peak hours on each stretches simultaneously. From the interpretation of the data collected Flow-Delay Model was generated. The Level of Service (LOS) concept proposed in Highway Capacity Manual 2000 was used to determine the level of congestion. From the theoretical studies, it can be inferred that the travel time delays are largely depends on traffic flow, on street parking, haphazard movement of vehicle (No lane discipline). Keyword-Travel time and Delay, License plate method, GPS, Level of Service