Metro

EVALUATION OF PUBLIC TRANSPORT SYSTEMS: CASE STUDY

OF DELHI METRO•

Mukti Advani1 and Geetam Tiwari2

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Research Scholar

Associate Professor

Transportation Research & Injury Prevention Programme

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India

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ABSTRACT

Growing number of vehicular trips by cars and two wheelers which result in traffic congestion, air

pollution and traffic accidents has become a major concern in urban areas. Investments in high

capacity rail based mass transit systems are being promoted to arrest this trend. In the last two

decades Kolkata, Chennai and Delhi have invested in MRTS/LRT systems. This paper analyses the

methodology and arguments used to justify these systems. The paper presents evaluation of Delhi

metro in terms of capacity, travel time and accessibility to the system and evaluation indices reflecting

commuter’s perspective.

KEYWORDS

Delhi Metro, Public Transport, Buses

URBAN TRANSPORT

Transport situation in most Indian metropolitan cities is rapidly deteriorating because of the increasing

travel demand and inadequate transportation system. Indian cities of all sizes are facing the crisis of

urban transport. Despite investments in road infrastructure and plans for landuse and transport

development, all face the problem of congestion traffic accidents and air pollution and the problems

continue to grow. Large cities are facing an unprecedented growth of personal vehicles (two wheelers

and cars) and in medium and small cities different forms of intermediate public transport provided by

informal sector are struggling to meet the mobility demands of city resident.

In Delhi, number of two wheelers and cars continue to rise. Despite construction of flyovers and

roads, the roads continue to face congestion at peak hours. In spite of the roads occupying 21 per

cent of the total city area, this large number of motor vehicles causes extreme congestion on roads,

ever slowing speed, fuel wastage, environmental...