Annexure I ME OF TRANSPORT COMPANIES IN GUWAHATI CITY 1. Assam Bengal Transport Agency, Chattribari, Guwahti- 1 2. Assam Bengal Roadways, Kedar Road, -1 3. Arunachal Carrying Corporation, Baruah Market, Ghy- 1 4. Arunalchal Road Srvice, Kedar Road, Ghy-1 5. Associated Transport Corpn, (Path) Ltd, AT Road -1 6. ABC Ltd. Kedar Road-1-1 7. ASTC Ltd, Kedar Road.1 Panbazar, Ulubari, -7 8. Ashoka Roadways, Athgaon, Guwahti-1 9. Ashok Road Link, Jail Raod, -1 10. Ashok Cargo Movers, Jail Road, -1 11. Ashok Transport of India, A.T. Road, -1 12. Assam Meghalaya Road Carries, Chatribari, -1 13. Assam Haryana and Roadways (P) Co. Kedar Road ghy- 1 14. Ashok Transport of India, Malik Compound, Guwhati-1 15. Assam Roadways, Jail Road, -1 16. Anand Roadways Corporation, Kedar Road, -1 17. Assam Bengal Road Service, Chatribari, Ghy-1 18. Assam (Road) Travel Pvt Ltd, M.S. Road -1 19. Assam Delhi Roadways, Beltola, -20 20. Associated Round Carriers, K.R.B. Road, -7 21. Assam Indore Roadways, Beltola, -20 22. Balurghat Transport Corporation, Kedar Road, Ghy-1 23. Bhoruka Roadlines, H.B. Road -1 24. Coastal Roadways, TR Phookan road, Ghy-1 25. Capital Road Carriers, Malik Compound, -1 26. Bikaner Assam Roadlines, H.B. Road -1 298
27. Carriers India Private Ltd. Rly Gate-6 AT Road ghy-1 28. Chartered Transpor, Kedar Road, -1 29. G.T.C. India (Path) Ltd. Athgaon, Ghy-1 30. Continental Transport Agency, Jail Road Ghy-1 31. Delhi Assam Roadways Corporation, Kedar Roads, Ghy- 32. Delhi Huwahati Roadlines, Kedar Road, -1 33. Dimapur Roadways, Khanapara, Ghy-9 34. Doors Transport Organisation, Kedat Road, Ghy-1 35. East India Transport Agency, Athgaon, Ghy-1 36. Manipur Roadways, Beltola, Ghy-20 37. Ganesh Transport, -1 38. Globe Transport Co. Athgaon, -1 39. Globe Roadways Corpn. Athgaon, -1 40. Goyal Carrying Corpn. Kedar Road, Ghy-1 41. Hari Transport Corporation, Keddar Road, -1 42. Havellia Roadwasy, Machkhowa, Guwaahti-1 43. Hira Transport Co. Beltola, Ghy -20 44. Internal Road services, Jail Road-1, Kumarpara, Ghy1 45. Indira Transport Corporation, Jail Road-1, Janath Roadways- Ghy-1 46. Kinara Transport Co. beltola, Ghy-20 47. Lower Assam Road Carriers, Kedar Road, Ghy-1 48. Manesh Roadways, T.R. Phookan Road ghy-9 49. Lower Assam Roadways, Keddar Road, Ghy-1 50. Manoj Round Line Co. Chatribari, Ghy-1 51. Meghalaya Road Carriers, Ghy-1 52. Maruti Road Carriers, Keddar Road ghy-1 53. National Transport Corporation, M.S. Road, -1 54. North East Carrying corporation, M.S. Road, -1 55. National Carrying Corpn. Fency Bazar, Ghy-1 299
56. Nepal Carriers, Athgaon, Ghy-1 57. North Lakhimpur Road Carriers, Ghy-1 58. Om Carrying Corpn., M.S. Road Ghy-1 59. Purbanchal Road Services, Chatribari, Ghy-1 60. Prabhat Carrying Corpn. AT Road Ghy-1 61. Praksh Road Lines Ltd, Ghy-7 62. Planters Aiways Lt Dispur, Ghy-6 63. Shanti Roadways, AT Road, Ghy-1 64. Sibsagar Roadwasy, AT Road, Ghy-1 65. Sunrise Transport, Keddar Road, Ghy-1 66. Tezpur Roadways, Keddar Road, Ghy-1 67. Tinsukia Roadways, Athgaon, Ghy-1 68. Upper India Road Carriers, Athgaon, Ghy-1 69. Vishal Roadways (India), Athgaon, Ghy-1 70. Western Larriers, Jail Road, Ghy-1. 300
Annexure II Terminologies Used 1. Floating Population: It is observed from the transportation survey that besides the normal population housed in the city, there is a floating population of about 10%, which comes to for daytime activities. Populations which comes to for different reason, such as employment, business and educational from the different nearby areas. Thus, it is estimated that in daytime the population in will be 22.94 lakh by 2025. 2. Outer Cordon: A corridor which is connected from different outer pocket. A total of 71,824 vehicles (107,819 PCUs) entered and exited the study area at the Outer Cordon (OC), on an average day (2004). The peak hour volume at OC stations ranged between 7.4% and 14.4% of Average Daily Traffic (ADT). Goods modes accounted for 18.6 % of the ADT at the OC. 2.9% of the passenger modes and 7.8% of goods modes at OC were through in nature. 25% of the goods vehicles at the OC were empty. 3. Inner Cordon: The inside corridor which has link to various part of city. A total of 223,871 vehicles (255,118 pcus) crossed the inner cordon (IC) on an average day. Motorized modes ranged between 41% and 91% at different count stations along the IC. Nearly 50% of the vehicles at IC, had a trip length upto 15 km. 4. Facility Centers: The lower level additional facilities like primary schools, nursery schools, and dispensary are to be provided at the neighborhood plan level in new development/ redevelopment schemes. The higher order facilities such as general hospital, intermediate hospital, college, integrated schools, and school for handicapped, socio-cultural and recreational club, fire and police stations need to be provided at the master plan level. 301
5. Ring/Orbital Road or Network: A ring road (also known as beltline, beltway circumferential way, loop or orbital is a road or a series of connected roads encircling a town or city. a. The Inner Orbital road is connecting GS Road with Fatasil Ambari Road. Linking it with AT Road, near Maligaon would have been completed the ring and would be provided easy connectivity from Lower Assam to the Maligaon areas of the city. b. The Outer Orbital Road: The third ring (existing By Pass Road-NH37) would be a regional ring circumscribing the GMDA. North portion which connects NH-31 and Amingaon areas circumscribe the two new towns, South portion is connecting with NH-37, Basistha Road, Lokhra Road and Fatasil Ambari, East portion connects Chandrapur Road and Narengi, via the VIP Road of the city. 6. CBD Orbital: The road links within the CBD Orbital will need to be classified as All Purpose roads. Traffic volumes on them will be high. Speed is not important. Access needs predominate. Providing parking space is important. 7. The network grids: The network grids each encompass an area of about 2 to 3 sq. km. The roads within each grid need to be planned as part of the Local Area Plan (LAP) for each sector. The main roads within them inter connecting arterial grid roads will need to be classified as sub-arterial and collector roads. 8. Mobility Coridor: A mobility corridor is an area where a militaty force will be canalized due to terrain restrictions. It allows forces to capitalize on the principles of mass and speed and needs to be relatively free from obstacles. In this study mobility corridor is known a roads free from all obstacles. 9. Equivalent Car Space: Every type of vehicle has different physical size and operational maneuverability. For establishing parking standards they are expressed in equivalent car spaces (ECS) with car as the standard reference unit. 302
10. Traffic Collars: As the city grows, traffic volumes will increase and levels of congestion within central areas will be high. The capacity of the facility to increase as it moves away from the Central Area. 11. Hub and spoke: Hub and spoke is used in airline route structure. The hub and spoke distribution is a system of connections arranged like a chariot wheel, in which all traffic moves along spokes connected to the hub at the center. 12. Park and Ride: Park and ride is the facilities for car parking at a public place. the public transport connection that allow commuters and other people headed to city centers to leave their vehicles and transfer to a bus, rail system or carpool for the remainder of the journey. The vehicles is left in the car park during the day and retrieved when the owner returns. Park and ride are generally located in the suburbs of metropolitan or on the outer edges of large cities. 13. Intermediate Public Transport: A mid-size car (occasionally referred to as an intermediate) is the North America/Australia standards for automobile with a size equal to or greater than that of a compact. In Europe mid-sizes are referred to as D-segment or large family cars. Here in this study intermediate vehicles are auto rickshaw, trekkers and taxi cabs etc plying on the city of. This has the average running of 15 to 20 km distance at one time. 14. Central Business District: A central business district (CBD) is the commercial and business centre of a city. In larger cities, it is often synonymous with the city's "financial district". Geographically, it often coincides with the "city centre" or "downtown", but the two concepts are separate: many cities have a central business district located away from its commercial or cultural city centre or downtown. Both the CBD and the city centre or downtown may also coincide with the central activities district. 303
A city's CBD is usually typified by a concentration of retail and office buildings. The CBD usually has an urban density higher than the surrounding districts of the city, and is often the location of the tallest buildings in the city. 15. Passenger Car unit PCU: It is a vehicle unit used for expressing highway capacity. One car is considered as a single unit, cycle, motorcycle is considered as half car unit. Bus, truck causes a lot of inconvenience because of its large size and is considered equivalent to 3 cars or 3 PCU. 16. Level of service: Level of service (LOS) is a qualitative measure used to relate the quality of traffic service. LOS is used to analyze highways by categorizing traffic flow and assigning quality levels of traffic based on performance measure like speed, density, etc. 17. A traffic analysis zone: A traffic analysis zone (TAZ) is the unit of geography most commonly used in conventional transportation planning models. The size of a zone varies, but for typical metropolitan planning software, a zone of under 3000 people is common. The spatial extent of zones typically varies in models, ranging from very large areas in the exurb to as small as city blocks or buildings in central business districts. There is no technical reason why zones cannot be as small as single buildings, however additional zones add to the computational burden. 18. Special Economic Zones (SEZs): In order to overcome the shortcomings experienced on account of the multiplicity of controls and clearances; absence of world-class infrastructure, and an unstable fiscal regime and with a view to attract larger foreign investments in India, the Special Economic Zones (SEZs) Policy was announced in April 2000. 19. Right-of-way: A right-of-way is a right to make a way over a piece of land, usually to and from another piece of land. A right of way is a type of easement granted or reserved over the land for transportation purposes, this can be for a highway, public footpath, rail transport, 304
canal, as well as electrical transmission lines, oil and gas pipelines. A right-of-way can be used to build a bike trail. A right-of-way is reserved for the purposes of maintenance or expansion of existing services with the right-of-way. In the case of an easement, it may revert to its original owners if the facility is abandoned. 20. Passenger Per Hour Per Direction: Many public transport systems handle a high directional flow of passengers- often traveling to work in a city in the morning rush hour and away from the said city in the late afternoon. To increase the passenger throughput, many systems can be reconfigured to change the direction of the optimized flow. A common example is a railway or metro station with more than two parallel escalators, where the majority of the escalators can be set to move in one direction. This gives rise to the measure of the peak-flow rather than a simple average of half of the total capacity. 21. Mass Transit: A system of large-scale public transportation in a given metropolitan area, typically comprising buses, subways, and elevated trains. It is also known as public transit system. 305
Annexure III Information Tables Table: 1 Basic Data related to Municipal Corporation GMC area 216 sq Kms GMC area 60 Employees 2750 Revenue zones 4 Public works division 5 Public work zones 23 Primary schools 5 High schools 1 Parks 12 Municipal markets 11 Holdings 1,00,000 GMC roads 511.5Kms Water treatment plants 3 Production of water 80 MLD Water pipe length 425 Km(approx) Table 2: Institutional Framework Infrastructure Planning & Design Constructions Operation & Maintenance Water supply PHE/AUWSSD/GMC PHE/AUWSSD/GMC PHE/AUWSSD/GMC Sewerage PHE/AUWSSD/GMC/ PHE/AUWSSD/GMC/ PHE/AUWSSD/GMC/ Drainage PHE/AUWSSD/GMC/ PHE/AUWSSD/GMC/ PHE/AUWSSD/GMC/ Storm water GMDA/GMC/T&CP GMDA/GMC GMDA/GMC drainage Solid Waste GMC GMC GMC disposal Municipal PWD/GMDA/GMC PWD/GMDA/GMC PWD/GMDA/GMC roads (Including flyover) Street lighting PWD/GMDA/GMC PWD/GMDA/GMC PWD/GMDA/GMC Town Planning GMDA & T& CP GMDA GMDA AUWSSB- Assam Urban Water Supply and Sewerage Department GMC- Municipal Corporation GMDA- Metropolitan Development Authority PHE- Public Health Engineering PWD- Public Works Department - Flood Control Department 306
Water Supply Sewerage Drainage Storm Water Drainage Solid Waste Disposal Municipal Roads (Including Flyover) Street Lighting Town Planning T&CP: Town and Country Planning Table: 3 Areas Covered by the Institutions (Except GMC & GMDA): AUWSSB PHE PWD T&CP Mainly in East along R G Baruah Road Primarily in East along R G Baruah Road In East along R G Baruah road East along R G Baruah Road Primarily Government Buildings and installations Planning & Design and Construction (All over ) Planning & Design and construction Supervision (All Over ) Mostly flood prone areas Flood Prone Low Lying Areas Planning & Design (All over ) Construction across All roads owned by PWD across Planning & Design of areas not covered by GMC & GMDA Note: GMC s jurisdiction covers a total of 60 municipal wards across an area of 216 Sq Km, while GMDA s jurisdiction covers areas not covered by GMDA out of total area of 264 Sq Km. 307
Table: 4 Description of the markets Situated in SL. No Name & Type Location 1 Wholesale markets of food-grains and Fancy Bazaar & Machkhowa areas perishable items 2 Hardware and Building materials (Wholesale and retail) 3 Motor Parts (Wholesale-cum-retail) * Fancy Bazaar and Athgaon * A.T. Road from Fire Station in ASTC to Athgaon Railway crossing *A.T. Road (from Paltan Bazaar to Bharalumukh); *Beltola (from Khanapara junction to Tetelia junction) 4 Coal Market *Along NH-37 from Khanapara junction to Biharibari junction 5 Timber market *Mainly in Maligaon and Rehabari areas 6 Wholesale fish market *Near Paltan Bazaar area on the backside of Meghdoot cinema 7 Wholesale Cloth Market *Fancy Bazaar Area 308