A Feasibility Study for Bus Rapid Transit System in Hyderabad

Ever increasing traffic on our roads is one of the major problems being posed to the smooth running of our lifestyle in cities. Road network in urban areas is one of constitutes one of the essential infrastructures for the development of the city and also to meet the demands of the people. In the present world today the problem faced by citizens are mobility accessibility etc. As the population increasing day by day travelled demand is also increasing consequently the need for transportation facilities increases. But in current situation the facilities provided are not meeting the requirements. As the business activity centers are increasing rapidly road requirements are changing .It has become imperative that we should design more efficient systems to handle this problem with minimum expenditure. In the present work it is recommended to take Hyderabad as the study area, selecting corridor 'Mehdipatnam to HCU Depot'. The traffic volume studies at specified time at suitable spacing along the corridor between all the junctions are required to conduct. The data obtained will be useful to find out the peak hour volume of all vehicles. This enables to check the adequacy or deficiency of traffic along the corridor by taking V/C ratio at each Stretch. The Stretch with V/C ratio more than 1.0 are supposed to recommend for possible improvements either by providing better public transport facilities like Bus Rapid Transit System as compared all the public mode of transport; it is much cheaper and has better facilities.