ROADS

Area covered by roads: 5%Total Length of Road: 53.71 kmDensity of Roads in Ward: 8.59 km/sq. km

Areas covered by study:• Road Hierarchy• Footpaths• Streetlights• Public Transports• Road Signs• Parking• Traffic Analysis

General Prof il e

Road Types Space Standards (m)

Design Speed (kmph)

Urban Expressway 50-60 80

Arterial Road 50-80 50Sub-Arterial

Road 30-50 50

Collector Road 12-30 30

Local Road 12-20 10-20

Access Road 6-15 15

Road TypesRoad

Distribution (km)

Road Density (km/km^2)

Internal Roads 16.63 2.66

Access Roads 28.97 4.63

Local Roads 3.67 0.58

Collector Roads 1.86 0.29

Sub-Arterial Roads 2.52 0.40

Total 53.71 8.59

Source: URDPFI (January 2015)

Road Hierarchy

Primary Collector RoadsROW 30-40 m

Speed Range 20-30 km/hour

Speed Control Enforcement and traffic calming required

Bus ways for BRT Segregated bus ways possible on ROW above 36 m

Cycle Tracks Cycle tracks to be minimum 2.5 m wide if block lengths are above 250 m

Motorized Lanes 2 to 3 motorized lanes per direction

Service Lanes No service lane required

Medians Intermittent or no medianSource: URDPFI

Sub- a r te r ia l Roa d

Collector Roads

ROW 12-20 m

Speed Range 10-20 km/hour

Speed Control Traffic calming required

Bus ways for BRT No segregated bus ways

Cycle Tracks No cycle tracks

Motorized Lanes No minimum lane width

Service Lanes No service lane required

Medians No median

Col l ector Road

Local Roads

Access Roads

Internal Roads

Use Width

Residential/Mixed Use Areas 1.8 m

Commercial/Mixed Use 2.5 m

Shopping Frontage 3.5- 4.5 m

BUS Stops 3 m

High Intensity Commercial Areas 4 m

Source: URDPFI

Footpaths

St reet l ights

AC B

A- Below the lamp- Maximum value of LuminosityB- Middle of the road- Vehicular visibilityC- Side of the road- Pedestrian visibility

UTTIPEC Master plan 2021 for Roads

BIS 1981 SLB for Urban Transport

Non-shopping areas= 30 LUXShopping areas= 20 to 25 LUX

Sub-arterial roads= 15 LUXLocal Roads= 4 LUXCollector Roads= 4 LUXAccess Roads= 4 LUX

All roads should have 8 LUX

Luminosit y

St reet l ight A de quac y

40

20

60

0

ResidentialCommercialMixed-Use

•Total no. of BRTS bus stops: 4•Total no. of AMTS bus stops: 34: •33% of the people use Public Transport.

Publ ic Transport

Road Signs

Mandatory/Regulatory

Speed Limit

Only BRTS

Cycle Track

Give Way

No Parking

Cautionary/Warning

Gap in Median

Bump Ahead

School Ahead

Narrow Road Ahead

Gap in Median

Cross-Road Ahead

Work in Progress

T-Junction Ahead

Informatory

AMTS

Directions

Parking

Parking

Traf f ic A na l y s is

Towards Sabarmati Railway Station(Road 2)- Local Road2887+950= 3,837

Towards Adalaj(Road 3)- Sub-arterial Road3162+4693= 7,855

Towards RTO Circle(Road 1)- Local Road4086+7548= 11,634

Towards Torrent Power Plant(Road 4)- Access Road10+4= 14

4086

4

4693(4300)

2887

7548

950

3162 (4300)

10

Evening – 7:30 to 8:3030th March 2015

AEC Circle

Issues: Interventions:

Some Slums have no street lights. Provision of10 to 15 low mast streetlights.

High mast floodlight is inadequate. More lights around the high mast floodlight.

The residential areas on the left towards the end of Motera road lack street lights

completely.

Provision of street lights in the newly developed areas.

Many street lights are not in a working condition.

Maintenance and alternate spacing of trees and street lights.

Low luminance due to the growth of trees.

Timely trimming of the extra branches blocking the street lights.

STREET LIGHTS

Issues: Interventions:

Presence of un-signalized junctions Timely maintenance of traffic lights.

Absence of traffic policemen. Provision of traffic policemen on major junctions to reduce congestion.

Non working signalsProvision of safer pedestrian crossings

and pathways on junctions.

Junctions

Issues and Interv ent ions

Streetlights

Issues: Interventions:

Low visibility due to obstruction or poor

maintenance.

Timely trimming of trees to increase visibility.

Some signs are bent over which are not serving their

purpose.

Proper maintenance to increase visibility.

Provision of more signs where there is more of traffic, conflict points and

congestion to increase safety.

Issues: Interventions:

Narrow, unusable footpaths provided on roads which do not

require them.

Increase in width of footpaths on wide roads to encourage pedestrian movement.

Hawkers and parking of vehicles on the footpaths reducing

pedestrian movement.

Provision of footpath only where required.

Dilapidated footpaths on most of the roads.

Reduction in onsite parking on footpaths.

Blockage of footpaths due to broken street furniture.

Maintenance of street furniture on the footpaths.

Road signs

Footpaths

Issues and Interv ent ions Cont .

Issues:• High traffic is seen especially in the market area due

to parking of two-wheelers as well as four wheelers on the narrow congested roads.

• There is also a spill over of parking outside the market areas due to insufficient parking.

• There are a very less percentage of roads having legal parking on the site. Rest all the parking observed was illegal.

• Due to insufficient parking, People park on the footpaths and that creates congestion.

Interventions:Some of parking in and around the high density parking areas can be diverted to nearby vacant plots that are currently used as dumpsites. The areas are shows as follows:

12:30 PM

Issues and Interv ent ions Cont .