OPERATIONAL ANALYSIS FOR RING RAILWAY AS CONSTITUENT MODE OF MMTS

Abstract

The migration of population from rural areas to urban areas has put a severe pressure on the infrastructure of urban cities. Delhi is the most rapidly growing metropolitan area in the country . It had a population of 12.9 million in 2001 and 15.61 million in 2011. It is expected that the population will growth by 23 million in 2021. Public transport in Delhi carries about 60% of total vehicular person trips but the same should be 80% as per the population size of the city The intra city vehicular trips per day are estimated to grow from 10.7 million(2001) to 24.7 million(2021),If about 15% inter city trips are added, the total trips to be catered to by 2021 will be about 28.7 million per day. Thus 80% of these trips i.e. 24 million should be carried by the public transport by 2021. The present bus services, metro rail and IRBT if implemented as planned together are estimated to carry about 15 million trips per day by 2021. Thus 9 million trips per day must be additionally catered to by other public transport. Hence it is necessary to take appropriate step for optimum use of carrying capacity of public modes and their proper integration with other modes such as ring railway, monorail ,LRT, etc. The ring railway is having 12 electric trains It can take 7000 people of the crowded streets daily. However ,currently they carry only 1500 passengers Only three of the_twelve EMU's run to full capacity The rest have just one to two percent occupancy.ln this report different analysis techniques are used to improve the access to railway stations and its potential in increasing rail use.