Sustainable bus route informationSystem for coimbatore cityUsing web gis

Abstract

Sustainable public transportation system is one of the importantequirements of any country. In the present situation, growth of vehicles is themajor problem because of accidents, congestion and pollution due to them. Infuture to reduce the number of private vehicles in the urban areas, more publictransit especially buses are required in the developing cities. CoimbatoreCorporation has been chosen for public bus transport study using integratedremote sensing and geographical information system techniques. The presentresearch focuses on the sustainable methods to improve service levels of roadtransport using recent developments in the field of geospatial technologieswhich will help in reducing the current ad-hoc decision making in the roadtransport planning process.Coimbatore Corporation has a population of 1,050,721 as per 2011census. The mean maximum and minimum temperatures during summer andwinter varies between 35°C to 18°C.Accessibility analysis reveals that only 20 bus stops are highlyaccessible whereas 41 bus stops have very less accessibility and 44 bus stopsare less accessible. It is suggested to take suitable action to increase theaccessibility of less accessible bus stops. The kernel density estimator, pointdensity estimator, accessibility and accident hotspot were discussed forvulnerable bus stops in the Coimbatore Corporation.Accident analysis reveals that out of the 197 bus stops 11 bus stopswithin the corporation limit come under very high vulnerability whereas 58bus stops are in high vulnerability zone for which suitable action is to betaken by the planners and decision makers to reduce the accidents in thiszone. newline