Malviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur

Urban transportation planning

Road networks of gandhi nagar and chandigarh

Presented by:-
Kunal Basist
SUBMITTED TO:-
2016par5113
Prof. Alok Ranjan M.Plan 2016-18
Contents
• Roads.
• Importance of roads.
• Networks of roads in India.

• Concept of 7v’s, Chandigarh Road network.

• Gandhi nagar Road network.
 ROADS
• India has one of the largest road networks in the world. Roads are the
dominant mode of transportation in India today.

• Roads have been existence since ancient times. Ashoka and

Chandergupta made great efforts to build roads. Sher Shah Suri built
the Grand Trunk Road from Kolkata in the east to Peshawar in the west
across the Indo-Gangetic Plains.

• They carry almost 90 percent of the country’s passenger traffic and 65

percent of its freight.
 Importance Of Roads

• Roads are suitable for short distance travels and traffic movement.

• Construction and maintenance of roads are cheap and easy.

• Loading and unloading of goods in trucks involves less amount of

money.

• For transport perishable commodities, roads provide better

services rather than railways
 Networks Of Roads In India

• India has a road network of over 46,89,842 kilometres (29,14,133

mi) in 2013.

• It enables the country's transportation sector to contribute 4.7% towards

India’s gross domestic product, in comparison to railways that contributed
1%, in 2009–2010.
The map shows the relative density
distribution of all weather surfaced major
highway roads, in lane kilometers per 100,000 Source : National Highways
people. Authority of India (NHAI)
 CONCEPT OF 7V’S –
CHANDIGARH PLANNING
Chandigarh was planned as an Administrative Town for a population
of 5 lakhs and built in two phases: Sectors 1 to 30 which formed the First
Phase, and Sectors 31 to 47 constituting the Second Phase of its
development.

The City was planned on the theories defining four major city-functions i.e.
Living, Working, Care of Body & Spirit, and Circulation.
Le Corbusier conceived the Master Plan of Chandigarh as analogous to
Human Body in terms of Head (the Capitol Complex, Sector 1),
Heart (the City Centre, Sector 17), Lungs (the Leisure Valley,
innumerable open spaces, and sector-greens) , the Intellect (the
cultural and educational institutions), the Circulatory
System (the network of roads, the 7Vs) and the Industrial Area.
• Working Areas – The
Capitol Complex Sector 17,
commercial belts along Jan
Marg, Madhya Marg, Himalaya
Marg , Udyog Path, Dakshin
Marg.
• Living - the Sectors
• Care of body and
spirit – Leisure Valley, Sukhna
Lake, parks, green belts,
cultural belts and the
educational belts
• Circulation – the 7v
network of roads on a modular
grid iron pattern .
SALIENT FEATURES OF THE CHANDIGARH PLAN
• The function of Living occupies primary place and has been organized into a
cellular system of sectors based on the concept of a neighborhood unit.

• Each sector (with the exception of sectors 1 to 6, 12, 14, 17, and 26) has a size of
800m x 1200m which was determined on the parameter of providing all amenities
i.e. shops, schools, health centers and places of recreation and worship within a 10-
minute walking distance of the residents.

• The originally planned population of a sector varied between 3000 and

20,000 depending upon the size of plots, the topography of the area, and the
urban- design considerations.

• Every sector is introvert in character and permits only four vehicular entries into
its interior to provide a tranquil and serene environment conducive to the
enrichment of life.
CONCEPT OF 7V’S
V1: National highway coming in and out of
chandigarh, fastest traffic
V2: main roads in Chandigarh: Madhya
Marg and Dakshin Marg, a lot of fast traffic
V3: roads between sectors, fast
traffic
V4: east west roads through the middle of
sectors: shops and residences, slower
traffic
V5: main loop road within sector, slow
traffic
V6: roads leading to houses, slowest
traffic
V7: pedestrian paths, blocked by walk-
though gates and turnstiles to every other
form of traffic
Buses will only ply on
V-1, V-2, V-3 and V-4
roads. A wall shall seal
the V-3 roads form
the sector.
• A well-defined hierarchy of Circulation based on Le
Corbusier’s V7s road- system designed to lead traffic
into the city and to distribute it right up till the dwelling
unit.
• Marg refers to the important avenues (V2), while
Paths were referred to less important streets (V3).
Road network ,
Gandhi Nagar
• LOCATED 23 KM NORTH OF AHEMDABAD (FIN. CAP. OF
GUJARAT)
• PLANNED IN 1960S under the PRAKASH M APTE & H. K.
MEWADA, AFTER PARTITION OF BOMBAY STATE,
AHEMDABAD WAS MADE AS THE CAPTAL OF GUJARAT.

• CORDINATES - 23.22 0 N 72.68 0 E

• ELEVATION - 265 feet (81 m)
• TOTAL AREA- 57 SQ KM
NEAREST RAILWAY STATION :
GANDHINAGAR CAPITAL RAILWAY STATION
AHEMDABAD JUNCTION (20 km)

NEAREST AIRPORT :
SARDAR VALLABHAI PATEL INTERNATIONAL
AIRPORT, AHEMDABAD (18 km)

NEAREST SEAPORT :
HAZIRA PORT (320 km)
KANDLA PORT (350 km)
ROAD NETWORKING
OF GANDHI NAGAR
• THERE ARE 30 SECTORS EACH OF 1KM X
0.75KM

• ALL STREETS ARE ALIGNED AT 30 DEG. N-W

AND 60 DEG. N-E, TO AVOID DIRECT
GLARE OF MORNING AND EVENING SUN
WHILE DRIVING

• GANDHINAGAR'S STREETS ARE NUMBERED

(EG. ROAD NO. 1, ROAD NO. 2 UPTO ROAD
NO. 7)

• CROSS STREETS NAMED FOR LETTERS OF

THE GUJARATI ALPHABET (E.G., "K", "KH",
"G", "GH", "CH", "CHH", "J")
SERIAL ROAD NAME
No.
1 “K” ROAD
2 “KH” ROAD
3 “G” ROAD
4 “GH” ROAD
5 “CH” ROAD
6 “CHH” ROAD

7 “JH” ROAD
8 Road no. 1
9 Road no. 2
10 Road no. 3
11 Road no. 4
12 Road no. 5
13 Road no. 6
14 Road no. 7
SERIAL No. ROAD NAME ROAD WIDTH
(ROW in m)
1 “K” ROAD 45.00 1
2
2 “KH” ROAD 65.00 3
4
5
3 “G” ROAD 45.00

4 “GH” ROAD 65.00 6

5 “CH” ROAD 100.00

6 “CHH” ROAD 65.00

7 “JH” ROAD 91.45

“CH” ROAD – ROW 100m

 SERIAL No. ROAD NAME ROAD WIDTH
(ROW in m)

7 1 Road no. 1 45.00

6 2 Road no. 2 45.00

5 3 Road no. 3 45.00

4 Road no. 4 100.00

4a
3 4b 5 Road no. 5 45.00

2 6 Road no. 6 45.00

1 7 Road no. 7 60.00

ROAD No. 5 – ROW 45m

Most of the major buildings are
located on these roads.

Capitol complex
Akshardham temple
Mahatma mandir
LDRP institute of
technology and
research.

Sports complex
Bibliography

• GANDHINAGAR URBAN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY

• http://chandigarh.gov.in
• National highway authority of India
Thank you