ASSEMENT OF DELAY ON ARTIAL CORIDOR FOR MIXED VEHICAL - A CASE STUDY OF RAJKOT WEST ZONE

Cities play a vital role in promoting economic growth and prosperity. The development of cities largely depends upon their physical, social, and institutional infrastructure. Urbanization is now a day is major developing tool for any city. As population increases the travel demand is also increases. Mostly the road related facilities are not going to change much with the change in travel demand. Increase in the travel demand will increase the traffic but the facilities associated with this are not going to change very frequently so it results in the traffic congestion and it will create the traffic hazards, so to overcome of this issues there is a need to study the impact of change in the travel behavior on qualities of the traffic facilities and service qualities. The all work is carried out at micro level so that the clear perception can be made how the travel is actually impacting on the qualities on the service corridors. The Travel behavior is very much affected by the adjoining land use and socio-economic characteristics.