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Streamlining Freight Transport Through Planning Interventions in Vijayawada City
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8289-0275
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9175-5331
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2164-2817
Freight transport has many challengesChallengesin urban mobilityUrban Mobility. Goods vehicles are designed with an objective to maximise the capacity of the vehicle; as a result, the dimensions of goods vehicles are more and speed of vehicles is less. As the vehicles are big in size, they occupy more PCUs on the road resulting in reduction of road capacities and they also block the visibility of comparatively smaller passenger vehicles. As the goods vehicles are not designed for higher speeds, slow-moving goods vehicles retard the movement of passenger vehicles on roads leading to congestion and queuing of other vehicles behind the slow-moving vehicle. The congestion and reduced speeds increase the travel time of all vehicles, and this results in economic and financial losses for all public, private and goods vehicles. In this backdrop, the study aims to analyse the issues related to transport of goods vehicles in urban areas and to identify alternatives which can improve the efficiency of freight transport in urbanUrban areas. The cityCities of Vijayawada is a trading and commercial hub of Andhra Pradesh with a well-connected railway network and a road network with two national highways passing through the city and connected through the air by an international airport located at Gannavaram 20 km from the city. All the agriculture products from surrounding areas of the fertile delta formed by the Krishna River are traded and exported to other parts of the country from Vijayawada. Apart from this, the cityCities also acts as a junction for North–South and East coast corridors connecting major cities like Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam, Chennai, Bangalore and Machilipatnam which brings a significant amount of freight traffic to the city on a daily basis. The huge freight volume flowing through the cityCities every day causes hindrance to city traffic causing delays, congestion, pollution and safety threats to road users of the cityCities but the movement of goods vehicles is an important aspect to keep the trade activity uninterrupted. The city lags in infrastructure for handling freight such as parking areas, loading/unloading, bypassing, and weighing. In this context, the study aims to improve the traffic scenario of Vijayawada by developing an efficient freight distribution plan in the cityCities that strategies upon the network improvement for freight and suggests appropriate land useLand usedevelopmentDevelopment and decentralises the freight functions of the city.
Streamlining Freight Transport Through Planning Interventions in Vijayawada City
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8289-0275
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9175-5331
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2164-2817
Freight transport has many challengesChallengesin urban mobilityUrban Mobility. Goods vehicles are designed with an objective to maximise the capacity of the vehicle; as a result, the dimensions of goods vehicles are more and speed of vehicles is less. As the vehicles are big in size, they occupy more PCUs on the road resulting in reduction of road capacities and they also block the visibility of comparatively smaller passenger vehicles. As the goods vehicles are not designed for higher speeds, slow-moving goods vehicles retard the movement of passenger vehicles on roads leading to congestion and queuing of other vehicles behind the slow-moving vehicle. The congestion and reduced speeds increase the travel time of all vehicles, and this results in economic and financial losses for all public, private and goods vehicles. In this backdrop, the study aims to analyse the issues related to transport of goods vehicles in urban areas and to identify alternatives which can improve the efficiency of freight transport in urbanUrban areas. The cityCities of Vijayawada is a trading and commercial hub of Andhra Pradesh with a well-connected railway network and a road network with two national highways passing through the city and connected through the air by an international airport located at Gannavaram 20 km from the city. All the agriculture products from surrounding areas of the fertile delta formed by the Krishna River are traded and exported to other parts of the country from Vijayawada. Apart from this, the cityCities also acts as a junction for North–South and East coast corridors connecting major cities like Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam, Chennai, Bangalore and Machilipatnam which brings a significant amount of freight traffic to the city on a daily basis. The huge freight volume flowing through the cityCities every day causes hindrance to city traffic causing delays, congestion, pollution and safety threats to road users of the cityCities but the movement of goods vehicles is an important aspect to keep the trade activity uninterrupted. The city lags in infrastructure for handling freight such as parking areas, loading/unloading, bypassing, and weighing. In this context, the study aims to improve the traffic scenario of Vijayawada by developing an efficient freight distribution plan in the cityCities that strategies upon the network improvement for freight and suggests appropriate land useLand usedevelopmentDevelopment and decentralises the freight functions of the city.
Streamlining Freight Transport Through Planning Interventions in Vijayawada City
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8289-0275
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9175-5331
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2164-2817
Freight transport has many challengesChallengesin urban mobilityUrban Mobility. Goods vehicles are designed with an objective to maximise the capacity of the vehicle; as a result, the dimensions of goods vehicles are more and speed of vehicles is less. As the vehicles are big in size, they occupy more PCUs on the road resulting in reduction of road capacities and they also block the visibility of comparatively smaller passenger vehicles. As the goods vehicles are not designed for higher speeds, slow-moving goods vehicles retard the movement of passenger vehicles on roads leading to congestion and queuing of other vehicles behind the slow-moving vehicle. The congestion and reduced speeds increase the travel time of all vehicles, and this results in economic and financial losses for all public, private and goods vehicles. In this backdrop, the study aims to analyse the issues related to transport of goods vehicles in urban areas and to identify alternatives which can improve the efficiency of freight transport in urbanUrban areas. The cityCities of Vijayawada is a trading and commercial hub of Andhra Pradesh with a well-connected railway network and a road network with two national highways passing through the city and connected through the air by an international airport located at Gannavaram 20 km from the city. All the agriculture products from surrounding areas of the fertile delta formed by the Krishna River are traded and exported to other parts of the country from Vijayawada. Apart from this, the cityCities also acts as a junction for North–South and East coast corridors connecting major cities like Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam, Chennai, Bangalore and Machilipatnam which brings a significant amount of freight traffic to the city on a daily basis. The huge freight volume flowing through the cityCities every day causes hindrance to city traffic causing delays, congestion, pollution and safety threats to road users of the cityCities but the movement of goods vehicles is an important aspect to keep the trade activity uninterrupted. The city lags in infrastructure for handling freight such as parking areas, loading/unloading, bypassing, and weighing. In this context, the study aims to improve the traffic scenario of Vijayawada by developing an efficient freight distribution plan in the cityCities that strategies upon the network improvement for freight and suggests appropriate land useLand usedevelopmentDevelopment and decentralises the freight functions of the city.
Streamlining Freight Transport Through Planning Interventions in Vijayawada City
Springer Geography
Chatterjee, Uday (editor) / Bandyopadhyay, Nairwita (editor) / Setiawati, Martiwi Diah (editor) / Sarkar, Soma (editor) / Vullapu, Sai Sesidhar (author) / Jain, Jagrati (author) / Tarafdar, Ayon Kumar (author)
2023-05-24
39 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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