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Introduction:
The burgeoning number of vehicles in the Country , especially in an Urban setting which are choking the cities in India is the main concern of the Government as well as the urban Planners .

The reason for this are many.With the liberalization of the Indian economy

• The large Indian middle class has that extra money to afford 'necessities'(vehicles being one of them) which was considered as a 'luxury' not very long ago.
• The availability of state of the art Vehicles in India which is too tempting to be ignored by the affluent.

However every care has to be taken to see that these 'necessities' do not become a bane in day to day life. This calls for an effective transportation management in an Urban setting. Since 'Transportation Management' is a spatial phenomenon GIS can be used as an effective tool in Managing and Planning transportation.

This paper gives a comprehensive insight as to how GIS can be used effectively to manage and plan Transportation and make commuting easier (if not pleasure) in an Urban setting.

Need for transportation management:
The growth of any urban area is driven by two factors. One being, the establishment of Businesses which open up tremendous employment opportunities and secondly the large influx of people to the urban areas.This results in large number of people commuting from a large number of residential pockets, to the Central Business Districts where majority of the business establishments are located.

On an average an urban commuter spends about 2 - 3 hours every day on the roads to reach the work place , school or home where as a decade back the same distance would have been covered in about half the time as that of now. Considering the exponential growth of the number of Vehicles and the ever increasing population the situation is bound to reach alarming levels in the near future. At the same time all the Technical advancements made in various fields of Science and Technology provide effective tools to check,manage and plan the ‘Vehicular traffic’.

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