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Title:

Employment Centers and Middle-Class Travel Behavior: The Case of Mumbai

Accession Number:

01363210

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

The Greater Mumbai Region (GMR) is among the most populated mega city-regions in the world, housing over 20 million people. Its growth illustrates a transformation from a monocentric to a polycentric city. From a land-use perspective, evolving rail networks matured into development corridors. Over time additional sub-centers developed as the rail network expanded out north and east from established cores. State initiatives to decongest Mumbai resulted in new nodes in the 1970s. Market forces resulted in establishing sub-centers farther north and east along these rail networks, 40-55 kilometers (25-35 miles) from the traditional central business district (CBD). However, current transport investments focus on strengthening connections within the core, whereas these emerging outlying nodes have received lesser attention. This research seeks to empirically indentify employment centers using work destination data. It tries to understand how employment at these nodes influences mode specific travel time. The research achieves this by comparing socio-economic and transportation indicators across two spatial definitions for the CBD, and by estimating mode specific elasticities for travel time with respect to travel distance. This paper is based on a household travel survey dataset of 38,352 middle-class households making 40,301 home-based work trips in the GMR. The results suggest that employment-centers outside the core could benefit from policies encouraging NMT and transit. Lacking these travel choices, household motorized vehicle ownership and use will likely go up. This research has implications for transportation sector policy applications, especially in planned and upcoming outlying employment nodes in the GMR.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABE90 Transportation in the Developing Countries

Monograph Accession #:

01362476

Report/Paper Numbers:

12-3151

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Shirgaokar, Manish

Pagination:

15p

Publication Date:

2012

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 91st Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2012-1-22 to 2012-1-26
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; Maps; References; Tables

Geographic Terms:

Mumbai (India)

Subject Areas:

Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Public Transportation; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2012 Paper #12-3151

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Feb 8 2012 5:14PM