Thiruvananthapuram: The average travel speed in this city is 25 KMPJ during rush hour, say study reports and analysis of the traffic and transportation are prepared as part of the Draft Plan 2040.
The document says the speed of travel shows that the condition of the city’s trip is on The bottom is normal, but has not reached the level of saturation.
City traffic characteristics are assessed under the study section and analysis to understand the problem of traffic movements and to understand the need to organize efficiently and economically.
The study includes the volume of traffic plying through the selected screen line location, the main outer cordon location of the city, the center location and an important intersection, and the utilization of their capacity regarding road capacity.
Studies and analysis show that traffic has exceeded the design.
Capacity in most roads / intersections that guarantee increased transportation infrastructure.
As part of the study, traffic movement data during the morning / night rush hour at 52 main intersections is estimated in 2020, and the highest volume of rush hour movement was observed.
At the intersection of Patom, higher than 10,000 PCU (passenger car unit) was attended by the intersection of Kesavadasapuram (between 9,000 and 10,000).
Six intersections have traffic volume between 8,000 and 9,000 PCU.
Data projections for the middle-center location for 2020 shows the road parts between Pallayam and Overbridge have the highest traffic volume of traffic on the streets of the city with 70,000 PCU followed by Karamana and Pappanamcode with 52,431 PCU.Traffic Management Experts that while the city has a road well – Developed, but parking on the sidewalk is a major factor that leads to a slow traffic jam and traffic movement.
This is also being shown in the report.
It notes that parking on the roadside has become a common phenomenon on the city road.
“In the absence of parking facilities outside the street, there is an increase in parking activities on the road that prevents the traffic movement,” said the report.
Accumulation of parking on the main road in 2018 which was prepared as part of the design of the parking policy showed it was a heavy parking accumulation observed in the Atkungara – Killipalama-Karamana, MG Road between LMS and Manakkad, PlatoDu – Pattom – Kesavadasapuram, Vellayambalam-Sasthamangalam, Chalai Market Road, Patom -Murinjalam-Medical College Road and Medical College.
PER reports based on vehicle parking duration on the main road, three vehicles parked for less than half an hour.
About 11% of vehicles are parked for 30-60 minutes, and only 15% of vehicles are parked for more than one hour.