TRIP RATES AND TRAVEL PATTERNS IN DELHI, INDIA

Abstract

The objective of the research was to analyse the factors affecting trip rate and modal choice in Delhi and also to identify specific travel problems of the low income community. Between 1979 and 1982 the Overseas Unit, Transport and Road Research Laboratory, undertook surveys of six separate housing estates or colonies in Delhi, the capital city of India. The colonies differed one from another either in socio-economic status or distance from the city centre. Socio-economic data together with data on household and per capita daily trip rates were collected. Travel patterns were identified and data collected on modal choice, distance and time spent travelling for the various regular trips undertaken daily by household members. Public transport supply characteristics (both of conventional modes and unconventional paratransit modes) being operated to and within the various residential colonies were also collected. Comparisons are made in this report of the results from the study areas in order to determine how residential location, household income and both private and public transport provision affect trip rates, travel patterns and modal choice. Particular emphasis is placed on the travel problems of those people in Delhi who live in low income colonies. The results of the various relationships found in Delhi should assist town planners and public transport planners when the location or relocation of low income communities is being considered as a policy. (Author/TRRL)

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