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Transportation Report Natpac
Transportation Report Natpac
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Demographic profile- population growth, employment, vehicle ownership, travel characteristics Identification of major corridors Division of corridors into homogeneous sections Link volume survey on homogeneous sections Bus stop based passenger survey Bus route and frequency survey
No. of passengers boarding / alighting Travel characteristics like origin, destination, trip purpose, frequency, travel cost and willingness to use LRTS / MRTS etc. Bus route details. Occupancy rate of buses. Name Meenchanda No. of Households 1430 Total 9199 Male 4542 Female 4657
Considerable variation in traffic volume of vehicles is observed during peak hours among the 37 sections surveyed. Peak hour volume varied from a high value of 3,793 vehicles in Eranhipalam-Mavoor road Junction section to a low value of 247 vehicles in MankavuMeenchanda section.
Peak Hour Traffic Volume in Selected Stretches on Major Roads in Kozhikode City, 2008
Sl. No. car, Scooter/M. Auto van BUS cycle (P) Jeep Corridor - I : NH-17 - Air port - Kulathur - Ramanattukkara - Town Hall Elathur Vengalam Cheruvannoor(Areekkad )9.00Meenchanda 10.00(M) 183 598 142 124 6 Meenchanda 11.00Cheruvannoor(Areekkad) 12.00(M) 141 961 240 58 09.00Meenchanda - Vattakkinar 10.00(M) 274 594 55 34 09.00Vattakkinar - Meenchanda 10.00(M) 224 701 209 59 7 05.15Mankavu - Meenchanda 06.15(E) 206 454 92 69 05.30Meenchanda - Mankavu 06.30(E) 193 422 79 58 Name of section Peak Hour Lorry Mini Truck MAT Auto (G) Others Total
11 11 30 42 9 3
0 0 30 30 22 26
0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 38 38 13 9
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Number of Daily Passengers Boarding and Alighting Along With Number of Buses and Average Occupancy
Sl. No. Name of road/ bus stop Direction Peak hour number of passengers Boarding Alighting 1099 877 765 1093 1318 804 538 1483 844 666 No. of buses Average occupancy
IV. Mini bye pass 1 2 Mankavu Meenchanda 1 1 2 1 2 255 267 313 283 291 38 64 29 33 32
Drain Covered L
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Cheruvannur - Mini Byepass (Length 4.200 km) -Do-Do-DoMini Byepass Mini Byepass - Vattakinar (Length 0.600 km)
3 2.0 2 2 1.5
4 2.5 2 2 1.5
F P F P P
F P F P P
Peak Hour Speed and Delay Characteristics along Major Road Stretches in Kozhikode city
Cheruvannur Jn. to Mini bye Pass Jn. Mini bye Pass Jn. to Vattakinar Jn. Meenchanda to Mankavu Vattakinar to Beypore Town 4.300 0.600 2.600 5.600 360 120 420 660 360 117 389 620 0 3 31 40 43 18 22 31 43 18 24 33 Parking Slow vehicl, Slow vehicle & Road Condition Poor Bus stop & Slow vehicle
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