Level of service of roads in Vijayawada

Abstract

One of the most challenging problems in city management in a developing city like Vijayawada is Traffic Congestion. Being a part of the proposed capital city of Andhra Pradesh Amaravati, the vehicular population in Vijayawada as recorded the tremendous growth. With increase of Vehicular population (2015) as 3.32% of Transport vehicles and 7.97% of Non-Transport vehicles (as of data.gov.in) it has now became an alarming issue to develop the demand based transportation infrastructure. The traffic congestion not only disrupts the business activities but also reduces productivity level of the city. The traffic congestion, effect the increase in possibility of accidents because of weak traffic management in the city. So it is now very essential to give the solution to ill effects of traffic congestion in Vijayawada. This paper describes the traffic congestion problem for the busiest roads of the Vijayawada city i.e.., Eluru and Bandar road. The traffic congestion of these roads is determined by the level of service of the arterial roads (LOS) through Average speed, Traffic volume and Traffic Capacity. Also the topological features of the city and solution to the problems triggering traffic congestion are suggested.