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Abstract
Review
of Transportation Infrastructure Projects in Mumbai Using Geo-Spatial
Anand Kumar Singh
Sr. M.Tech.
IIT Bombay, India
Email: anandsingh@iitb.ac.in
Saurabh Gupta
Traffic & Transportation Engineer
Sr. M.Tech
IIT Bombay, India
Email: gupta_s20@iitb.ac.in
S. L. Dhingra
Professor
IIT Bombay, India
Email: dhingra@iitb.ac.in
Abstract
Mumbai city is moving at a fast pace of development and
economic growth as a function of establishment of Infrastructural capital.
Consequently, population distribution & activity location has resulted in
rampant sprawled development, far beyond central business district into distant
suburbs. This had made the spatial dynamics of Mumbai city very complex.
Transportation infrastructure too is on the verge of collapse and according to
planning agencies, Mumbai suburban railway system carries about 4700 passengers
in a 9-car rake during peak hours, as against its rated carrying capacity of
only 1,700. To augment the capacity of rail and road transport systems, several
projects are in the planning stage. To understand the complex behaviour of
spatial dynamics together with the growing transportation needs, this paper
renders an insight of the applications of technologies like GIS and GPS in
transportation planning. These tools offer wide range of flexibility in
analysis, interface with simulation, power of synthesis and presentation of
results. GIS applications cover broad areas of transportation, such as travel
demand modelling, traffic monitoring and control, mass transit planning and
operation, hazard mitigation and intelligent transportation systems. To
illustrate this, few ongoing transportation projects are reviewed and different
planning modules have been discussed including air quality assessment, land use
planning and passenger information system. Although usage of these tools is at
elementary stage, yet these case studies can prove to be ideal for upcoming
transport projects in other large cities.
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