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Title:

Evaluating the Impact of Urban Form on Transportation in Gated Communities in Bangalore, India

Accession Number:

01555614

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

The rise of the middle class in India, coupled with increasing demands for infrastructure have the potential to pioneer a new, less energy intensive way of life. However, current trends in Bangalore are accelerating towards private vehicle ownership with ever longer commutes. This paper addresses the need for, and some benefits of, possible adaptations to the current built form. In particular, the authors go into detail regarding gated communities (GC) and their impact on Bangalore as a whole. Through a review of the literature, they identified indicators most commonly referred to as impacting transportation through urban design. The authors then used these indicators to design an audit that evaluates possible changes to be made to the built form. A survey of residents in GCs was administrated for travel patterns and preferences, and matched to possible built form changes. This allowed the authors to estimate fuel savings for their communities. They found that for only six of the approximately 2,000 GCs in Bangalore, the potential impact reaches about 30,000 households, resulting in an annual savings of 2.5 million liters of fuel, and reducing emissions by 3.8 million kg of CO2. These amount from relatively minor changes: protected sidewalks within 1.5 km of the developments, bike lanes out to 5 km from the development, and an internal shuttle feeding to the public transit that already exists in Bangalore.

Supplemental Notes:

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

Monograph Accession #:

01550057

Report/Paper Numbers:

15-1010

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Rajagopalan, Lakshmi
Sudhakaran, Saritha
Page, Nathan
Mahendra, Anjali

Pagination:

17p

Publication Date:

2015

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2015-1-11 to 2015-1-15
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; Maps; References (32) ; Tables

Geographic Terms:

Bangalore (India)

Subject Areas:

Highways; Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; Society; I20: Design and Planning of Transport Infrastructure; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2015 Paper #15-1010

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 30 2014 12:25PM