Geospatial technologies in urban planning
Major cities in India face high levels of traffic congestion due to ongoing urbanization and increased vehicle ownership. To address this issue, many urban local bodies and public transit organizations are adopting geospatial technologies to ease congestion and improve the efficiency of public transportation, reducing pollution levels. Vehicle navigation systems have recently entered the Indian market and use GPS to provide drivers with real-time directions to destinations via the shortest route. There are many potential applications of geospatial technologies for urban planning, such as pavement management, incident response, evaluating public transit routes and locations for emergency services. However, implementing these technologies faces challenges including significant infrastructure expansion and ongoing updates to network databases.
Geospatial technologies in urban planning
- 1. Geospatial technologies in Urban planning
- 2. Application of geospatial technologies in transport planning
- 3. Transport Planning under Urban development Problem That major metro cities in India fair very badly on the congestion index with its value much higher than the average. This is mainly due to the ongoing urbanisation and motorisation trends, and their impact on mobility and safety of the population. This clearly points out to the unsustainable state of transportation systems in India. Solution To deal with the scenario, most of the urban local bodies (ULBs) and urban public transport organisations are catching up with geospatial technologies to ease traffic congestions and increase efficiency of public transport minimizing pollution levels.
- 4. Catching up with Technology
- 5. Traffic management and law enforcement
- 6. Vehicle Navigation system Vehicle navigation systems have entered the Indian market recently. A typical navigator is a portable device (either hand-held or on dashboard of car) that helps a driver or a person to navigate in real time through the road network to reach a particular destination from the origin. Basically the device is GPS enabled and shows the real-time location of itself, while in motion, on the GIS map available in device. The navigator helps the driver to navigate through the shortest path to reach his/her destination.
- 7. Potential areas for application There are many areas where urban local bodies (ULBs) can use geospatial technologies for efficient functioning, such as: • Pavement Management System (PMS) • Incident management • Multi-criteria evaluation of route alignments • Network band creation • Vehicle routing problem • Postal services • Public transport companies • Jurisdiction of municipal offices • Arc routing problem • Municipal waste collection • Network partitioning problem • Jurisdiction of police stations • Earmarking areas for road maintenance for various ULBs etc. • Evaluation of effectiveness of locations of above services, etc. • Optimum routing of emergency services based on travel time. • Location of emergency services like fire stations, ambulance, hospitals.
- 8. Challenges in implementation Major infrastructure expansion Updating of network data base on devices One-way traffic measurement
- 9. Conclusion Integration of various geospatial technologies is an added advantage for the urban planners who prepare sustainable and implementable policies and framework for intelligent transport system (ITS) resulting in betterment of the citizens
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