Alternate Road Route from Haridwar to Delhi using GIS

Dr. Kamal
Professor
IIT Roorkee,
India
Email: kjain_us@yahoo.com;

Aruninder Singh
Student


Guralam Singh
Student




NH-58 is an important national highway serving holy shrines of Badrinath, Kedarnath, Gangotri and Yamnotri besides serving the capital of Uttaranchal state. NH-58 is from Ghaziabad to Manapass and passes through Modinagar, Meerut, Khatauli, MuzaffarNagar, Roorkee and Haridwar. During any religious activities like Kavad mela in Shivratris, NH-58 is occupied by thousand of pedestrian devotees, who are going to Haridwar to fetch holy water of the river Ganga. This congestion of road seriously affects the freight and passenger traffic from Haridwar to Delhi. To make optimum use of the road network, as communication links, for all seasons a great amount of money is invested in planning and other activities of the roads. Keeping this in mind, this paper presents usage of Geographic Information System - Transportation (GIS-T) technologies for the routing analysis for alternate road routes from Haridwar to Delhi when the NH- 58 is blocked.