Coimbatore Street Design & Management Policy

4th January 2018 by Leave a Comment

Too often, transport planning has concentrated on infrastructure, traffic, costs, and benefits, with environmental factors limited to engineering consideration. However, mobility planning now focuses on the movement of “people, not vehicles’, a goal clearly expressed in the 2006 National Urban Transport Policy (NUTP).

In keeping with this approach, the Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation (CCMC) aims to create a policy environment that supports increased accessibility by prioritizing the use of walking, cycling, and public transport. CCMC has thus adopted a Street Design & Management Policy to ensure the implementation of high quality transport systems.

The Policy seeks to achieve a more equitable allocation of road space by incorporating a focus on non-motorised transport (NMT) and public transport (PT) in the planning, design, managing, and budgeting stages.

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The BRT Standard

23rd June 2016 by Leave a Comment

The BRT Standard is the centerpiece of a global effort by leaders in bus transportation design to establish a common definition of bus rapid transit (BRT) and ensure that BRT systems more uniformly deliver world-class passenger experiences, significant economic benefits, and positive environmental impacts.

BRT plays an important role in the global effort to reduce transport sector emissions. As emissions from private motor vehicle use grow, shifting these trips onto public transit by improving the quality and reach of BRT becomes critical. Establishing a quality standard for BRT not only ensures that better projects are built, but that transport sector emissions are reduced.

The BRT Standard scoring system was created as a way of protecting the BRT brand and offering recognition to high quality BRT systems around the world. Certifying a BRT corridor as gold, silver, bronze, or basic sets an internationally recognized standard for the current best practice for BRT.

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The Bike-Share Planning Guide

20th April 2016 by Leave a Comment

More than 600 cities around the globe have bike-share systems, and new systems are starting every year. The largest and most successful systems, in places such as China, Paris, London, and Washington, D.C., have helped to promote cycling as a viable and valued transport option.

This guide evaluates international best practice in bike-share, helps to bridge the divide between developing and developed countries’ experiences to provide guidance on planning and implementing a successful bike-share system regardless of the location, size, or density of your city. For more information on the growth of bike-share systems, watch this Streetfilms video, Riding the Bike Share Boom.

Can shared mobility help low income people access opportunity?

10th August 2015 by Leave a Comment

This report was produced by ITDP for Living Cities and is reprinted here with permission. More information is available at LivingCities.org.

Shared-mobility programs like bike-share and car-share have significant potential to benefit low-income users, yet often do not reach that population. This report explores the specific opportunities and challenges facing shared mobility programs in expanding services to low-income communities.

In the last decade, shared mobility services such as bike-share, car-share and ride-share have taken off across the United States as a complement to local public transit and an alternative to private car ownership. As these models have developed, many have explored how the emerging field can more directly benefit low-income individuals, who often face longer and more costly travel times. However, current usage of shared mobility systems among low-income communities remains lower than usage by the general population overall.

This report is a survey of existing shared mobility strategies and their attempt to expand services to low-income individuals. It is our hope that the findings can inform operators, government agencies, funders, non-profit organizations and others as they try to tap into the potential of shared mobility strategies to improve the lives of low-income individuals.

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Mobility for all at Ranchi

20th July 2015 by Leave a Comment

Ranchi, the capital city of Jharkand is fast urbanising. Though the state remains largely rural, Ranchi and the other cities have been rapidly growing with the influx of people from the hinterland in search of opportunity. These cities need to be planned and manage to provide a safe, affordable, attractive and inclusive environment for the citizens.
With a good transport system comes better connect between people and also more sustainability- socially, economically and environmentally.

The lack of a formalized public transport system in Ranchi has led to dependence on private vehicles and paratransit for day-to-day travel, congestion and safety issues. While most of the new transport initiatives deal with road widening and flyovers, there have been no concrete efforts to address the people’s need and propose genuine solutions.

The Ranchi Mobility Charter, developed by the Ranchi Mobility Partnership led by ITDP calls for a development model that focuses on a high-quality bus based transport system, parking management and a pedestrian friendly outlook.

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The BRT Standard Infographic

18th July 2015 by Leave a Comment

This infographic highlights the key features of BRT essential to any BRT system. These elements ensure that BRT systems have high operating speeds and provide a good customer experience.

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Riding the Bike-Share Boom

29th June 2015 by Leave a Comment

The Bike-Share Planning Guide establishes many important metrics and principles for evaluating bike-share systems around the world. Although each city makes bike-share its own, adapting it to the local context, many of the most successful systems share certain common features.

The Guide provides important standards and insights into best practices for building bike-shares, and this infographic highlights five of the most important metrics and performance indicators for achieving a successful system.

Coimbatore Rapid- a Mass Rapid Transit Feasibility Study

19th October 2014 by Leave a Comment

Coimbatore is a prominent industrial hub and second largest city in the state of Tamil Nadu. The city has been witnessing rapid growth of vehicles especially cars and two wheelers. Due to the high vehicle volumes, there is significant traffic congestion in the inner city. Though walking and cycling account for a quarter of trips in Coimbatore, most streets lack dedicated pedestrian and cycling facilities. Even where footpaths are available, they are either narrow or encroached by utilities and parked vehicles.

The existing public transport system served by TNSTC does not have adequate good quality buses and is characterised by poor frequency, longer waiting times, and poor quality bus shelters. To actively promote safe and accessible sustainable transport with focus on reducing vehicular increase and pollution, the Commissionerate of Municipal Administration, Tamil Nadu, in partnership with ITDP has initiated the “Sustainable Cities through Transport” process.

In partnership with the Transport Department, ITDP has worked with Coimbatore to study the city’s public transport needs in more detail. The outcome is this feasibility study, which identifies a 74 km network for rapid transit. This document discusses the existing transportation system challenges, and identifies four corridors to implement an affordable, accessible, flexible, and cost effective mass rapid transit system.

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Public Cycle Sharing System for Gandhinagar

20th August 2014 by Leave a Comment

Gandhinagar is the capital of Gujarat state and has a population of 2,08,299.2 The city’s density is
approximately 7,900 persons per sq km. Much of the city is organized on a 1.0 km by 0.7 km grid. A
typical sector layout consists of convenience shops and community park in the centre surrounded by
residences, including both government and private housing.

The Gandhinagar Urban Development Authority (GUDA) is planning a public cycle sharing system with approximately 1,430 cycles and an initial coverage area of 21.8 square kilometres. Gandhinagar is a planned city, characterized by separated land uses with government facilities comprising the central sectors. Since most of the commercial activities and institutional land uses are concentrated in specific areas and given the lack of connectivity to other uses, the city sees a high level of dependence on personal motor vehicles for short trips. Cycle sharing will help address the connectivity gap, serving as an alternate means of mobility that links the residential, commercial and institutional sectors. It will help users get to work and finish daily errands in a quick and cost effective way.

Cycle sharing also will complement public transport services, including intercity services provided by the Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation (GSRTC), the local the city bus system VTCOS, and the planned Janmarg bus rapid transit link from Ahmedabad.

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Public Cycle Sharing System for Delhi

20th August 2014 by Leave a Comment

Delhi, the national capital territory of India, has population of 17.4 million1 and covers an area of 1,483 sq km. Delhi has been at the forefront of investment in transport infrastructure. It has a Metro network of almost 200 km—one of the largest in the world—and an extensive network of roads and flyovers. Yet the city experiences some of the worst congestion in the country.

Cycle sharing is considered a key element among these strategies to serve as an alternate mode of public transport in which people have access to cycles that can be used across a network of closely spaced stations. By encouraging a shift to sustainable modes, the cycle sharing will reduce dependency on automobiles, particularly for short trips in the city centre, thereby reducing traffic congestion, vehicle emissions, and demand for motor vehicle parking.

GNCTD has requested the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) to consolidate the existing cycle sharing plans for Delhi and prepare a detailed report, including the system design, proposed station locations, and a financial plan, for implementation of a first phase cycle sharing system. The proposed GNCTD Phase 1 cycle sharing system will have approximately 3,800 cycles and an initial coverage area of about 52 sq km.

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