This paper seeks a straightforward question: Is the infrastructure improvement or demand management strategy is a better solution to traffic congestion problem to the region’s economy? This research focussed on the economic evaluation of congestion relief measures under heterogeneous traffic condition. A comprehensive methodology is developed and estimated the congestion cost annually for urban links in the Indian city. Road widening and private vehicles that are prominent in India such as two wheeler and car shift to public bus are considered separately as the relief measures. The percentage reductions of congestion cost with the relief measures and normal congestion state are compared. The result shows that the percentage reduction of congestion cost due to road widening is 55.55%, two wheeler shifts to bus is 94.99% and car to bus is 94.92%. Benefit cost analysis is conducted to find the optimal solution for congestion problem. The b/c ratio for road widening is 1.1, shift of car to bus is 2.5 and mode shift of two wheeler to bus is 2.9. The analysis revealed that the demand management strategy is a better solution compared to road widening for the Indian city.


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    Title :

    Economic Strategies to Alleviate Traffic Congestion: Evidences from an Indian City


    Additional title:

    Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering



    Conference:

    International Conference on Advances in Civil Engineering ; 2020 May 28, 2020 - May 29, 2020



    Publication date :

    2021-12-15


    Size :

    12 pages





    Type of media :

    Article/Chapter (Book)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English