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Planning for Suitable Walk-Access

Infrastructure Components in Various
Classes of Urban Bus Stop Catchment
Area
Subhojit Roy & Debasis Basu  

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Abstract

The scientific article of this chapter presents

guidance toward the rational selection of various
walk-access infrastructure components in various
classes of urban bus stop catchment areas and their
implementation plan by evaluating the choice
perspective of walk-accessed bus users. While
presenting such guidance, the work overcomes the
shortcomings/deficiencies usually noticed in the
existing design guidelines of best practices in the
context of the pedestrian facility in India. The
empirical study is carried out by analyzing of the
walk-accessed bus users’ choice perspective of
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various infrastructure components using a discrete

choice model, and then the economic values are
estimated for those infrastructure components.
Several hypothetical but plausible door-to-door
(d2d) travel scenarios of walk-accessed bus users
are generated considering combinations of walk-
infrastructure components in various classes of bus
stop catchment area having varying types of lateral
physical constraints on their access roads. After
that, the d2d generalized cost (called as d2d-GC)
values are estimated for each such scenario, and
then the savings in the value of d2d-GC under
various travel scenarios are considered as the
measure of effectiveness (MoE). Using such MoE,
suitable combinations of walk-access infrastructure
components are suggested for various classes of
bus stop catchment areas based on the near-
minimal generalized cost incurred by walk-accessed
bus users.

Keywords

Walk-infrastructure components

Bus stop catchment area Access roads

Choice preference Generalized cost

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School of Infrastructure, Indian Institute of

Technology Bhubaneswar, 752050, Jatani, India
Subhojit Roy & Debasis Basu

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Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute
of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, Assam, India
Dr. Akhilesh Kumar Maurya
Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute
of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu,
India
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Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology,
Surat, Gujarat, India
Shriniwas S. Arkatkar
Department of Civil Engineering, Birla Institute
of Technology and Science, Hyderabad,
Telangana, India
Dr. Prasanta K. Sahu

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Roy, S., Basu, D. (2022). Planning for Suitable Walk-Access
Infrastructure Components in Various Classes of Urban
Bus Stop Catchment Area.
In: Maurya, A.K., Vanajakshi,
L.D., Arkatkar, S.S., Sahu, P.K. (eds) Transportation Research
in India. Springer Transactions in Civil and Environmental
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