PLANNING FOR SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY IN ROORKEE

Abstract

This report, titled ‘Planning for Sustainable Mobility in Roorkee’ aims to aims to evolve a sustainable urban mobility plan for Roorkee, Uttarakhand. This report has eight chapters. The report starts with the backdrop of the study, with introduction, aims and objectives of the study undertaken. In the literature review, initially the transportation scenario in India and the previous studies conducted on the concerned topic are discussed. The latter part involves the study of various terminologies and concepts related to sustainable mobility. Also, the transportation infrastructure in the study area as a whole is discussed along with its socio-economic profile. Then the overview about the study area is presented. It contains discussions about existing transport infrastructure in the study area which include results analysis from several on-field surveys. An attempt has been made to analyze the existing transport infrastructure and it‟s the challenges it has been facing, and the user behaviour through various surveys, studies conducted and secondary data collected. The report gives the recommendation and proposals in form of specific strategies which are categorized into two: Area-specific strategies and city-level strategies. Finally, the study is concluded with the ideology of containing and limiting the need for travel rather than to augment the demand for parking and other traffic infrastructure.