Appraisal Study Of Brts Surat-A Sustainable Urban Transport

Urban transport system is the key issue in today's scenario due to incredible growth rate in urban areas and improper planning to accommodate incoming migrants. Surat city being the Diamond capital and Textile Hub becomes an epicenter for opportunities which in turn attracts a great number of man-power. This huge population and increasing requirements towards transportation challenges the existing service in the heart of the city. To face this challenge, BRTS turns out as a sustainable transit system looking towards the availability of space and existing network of roads. This paper deals with assessment of less preferred existing operational BRTS Phase-1: Corridor-1 i.e. UdhnaDarwaja-SachinGIDC which doubts its feasibility and requires thorough analysis to highlight its flaws. Also Congestion and Connectivity has been the concerned issue and needs to be resolved by re-planning to eliminate the flaws and sustain the tough three-wheeled competitor.