URBAN HELL

Presented By
RAJAVINOTH.V
Contents
Outline
Introduction
Vehicles population
Chennai Traffic Statistics
Incidents
Economic loss
Conclusions
Outline
Discuss about Traffic
Population of vehicles
Range of traffic in Chennai
Incidents due to traffic
Anatomy of a traffic
Traffic solutions
Introduction

TRAFFIC is the latest nightmare of

Indian cities with collapsing infrastructure
and the growing number of vehicles
causing deaths, economic loss and an
escalating health crisis.
As ad guru Dan Bellack said

"Life is too short for traffic"

Vehicle population

•Delhi -70 lakh vehicles

•Chennai-32 lakh vehicals
•Mumbai -19lakh vehicles
•Jaipur -15lakh vehicles
•Bangalore-31lakh vehickes
Chennai Vehicle population

32 lakhs vehicles

Registers 700 new vehicles daily
Increasing 300% in last 15 years
Mumbai vehicle population
747 motor vehicles per km
With 6500 cars during rush hours
5.75% boost yearly in no. of new cars
More than 2 lakh autorickshaes
9 lakh-odd passenger cars
55,000 taxis
More than 25,000 buses
3lakh+ commercial vehicles
India Transport
Indian thoroughfares host over 48 modes
of transport
40 per cent of commercial vehicles plying
illegally
41 per cent of streets are taken up by
parking
Most Indians drive 10 km on an average
daily
Indian urban legends
Story
Sunset or sunrise,
you ride into hell.
Stories like this are part of today Indian
urban legends; in Kolkata, Chennai,
Kanpur and Coimbatore, etc.,
Chennai Traffic Statistics

Vehicle Growth

Overall – 8.4%
Two Wheeler  – 8.6%
Car  – 6.3%
Auto  – 15.64% (40,000 nos)
Peak traffic speed

Bangalore’s - 18 kmph
Chennai - 19kmph
Delhi - 16 kmph
Mumbai - 16 kmph
Traffic jams
Losses By Traffic
Rs 10 crore is what traffic costs Delhiites
daily in wasted fuel
70% per cent of parking in Mumbai is in
prohibited space
814 vehicles per sq km is the traffic
density in Kolkata
4 lakh floating vehicles weave in and out
of Chennai daily
Traffic Composition

60% of the traffic consist of Passenger

vehicle
Two Wheeler composition varies from
32-74%
Good vehicles are high at location in the
periphery
Peak Hour growth

Annual growth - 6% in 1992 to 17% in

2008
Highest vehicle volume-175051 
Least vehicle – 4616
Peak hour factor ranges from 6.4% to
9.5%
Maximum of 13% goods vehicles are
plying on Pammal-Kunrathur Road
Junctions

Singnalized      – 31%
Uncontrolled    – 54%
Rotary               -  13%
Grade separated – 02%
Onstreet Parking
Present   – 41%
Absent    – 59%
Speed & Delay

Commercial Area            - 19 to 21 kmph

Non-commercial Area ­24 to 26kmph
Anna Salai                    - 27.5 kmph
Periyar                         -24.5
VOC Road &
Erukkancherry   - 21.3 kmphs
Chennai Bypass             - 60.5 kmph
Informal Activities

Area Category Road Length No.of Person No.of person

(Km) working per
100 m
T. Nagar High 8090 860 11
Alwarper & Medium 5430 340 6
Perambur
Pallavaram Low 1630 59 4

Total Informal Employment – 19 Lakhs (2008)

ANATOMY OF A TRAFFIC
Night Traffic
Traffic Jams Makes
Kill people in marooned ambulances
Desperate mothers are stuck on the way to
pick up their children from school
Candidates don’t make it to job interviews
passengers miss important flights
Security forces fail to reach in time to
handle terror
Late attendance
Heavy Traffic
A Incident in chennai

Radhika Selvamani(35 years)

She taking her husband to the
General Hospital
He has had an heart attack
An hour and many diversions later to
escape the dense traffic near mylapore.
The delay kill her husband.
Akshardham attack of 2002
•Akshardham temple is attacked
by two terrorists in the day of
September 24th, 2002.
•The police and commandos
escorted hundreds of visitors
from around the complex to
safety and helped transport the
injured to the nearby hospitals.

In this incident the two terrorists are escaped

By the reason of TRAFFIC
TRAFFIC SOLUTIONS

Using bridges or tunnels

Reducing junctions
Limited access roads
Separate lanes for specific user groups
Ramp signalling on congested motorways
Greater access to public transport and
more modes for choice.
Economic Losses

Economic Losses due to Traffic Jams

The environmental stress generated by
urbanization has many interrelated causes.
Average travel speed in the center of
Chennai, during peak hours, is about
19kms/hr! To this situation, 700 vehicles
are added to its streets everyday.
Conclusion
Day by day the population of
vehicles are increased. In this condition is
continued our future will meet more
traffic accidents.
And more time previously wake up
and move to his/her works for reach on
time. Keeping punctuality is difficult.
Questions
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