Intermediate Public Transport a Scenario and their Contribution to Urban Traffic Congestion in Indian Cities

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The public transport systems of the developing world is the combination of conventional forms like Buses and Rails and non conventional forms called the Intermediate Public Transport. To Indian conditions these forms of Intermediate Public Transport are Autorickshaws, Cyclerickshaws and Tongas. These forms of transport play a vitol role in the urban Public Transport cenario in view of various features existing in Developing World like, short supply of Mass transport facility, increasing transport demand, the inherited physical network pattern of the cities the socio-economic conditions etc. The conventional traffic and transportation theories relate only to the modern transport vehicles and little was done to understand the behavioural characteristics of the Intermediate forms of transport vehicles. In this paper an attempt has been made to bringout the salient features of the Intermediate forms of Public Transport in terms of their role, importance, behaviour and their congestion effect in the urban traffic stream. Towards this direction, the case studies conducted by the author in Delhi the capital city of India are presented in this paper.
北海道大学の論文
1986-03-15