6th Conference of TRG

Prioritization of major motivators of Congestion pricing: A case study of

Hyderabad, India
Naveed Farooz , Bandhan Bandhu Majumdar , Prasanta Kumar Sahu
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1,2,3
Birla Institute of Technology and Science-Pilani. Hyderabad, India
SCI AND CCI FORMULATION

INTRODUCTION Table-1 : Major identified Motivators

METHODOLOGY RESULTS
Motivators
• The rapid urban growth has resulted in extreme levels The study methodology consists of following stages.
of car population and extraordinary demand for road • Stage-1: Identification of related attributes > Safety improvement (SF_IMP)
infrastructure which leads to Congestion (Motivators of congestion pricing)
> Congestion reduction (CON_RDC)
• Congestion is a major stumbling block being faced by • Stage-2: Data collection and database development
urban commuters across the globe, with many • Stage-3: Exploratory analysis of data > Environment quality improvement (ENV_IMP)
adverse consequences on the quality of life and • Stage-4: Prioritizing of attributes using TOPSIS
> Travel time reduction (TT_RDC)
quality of a trip technique
• In India, the vehicular population has reached 230 • Stage-5: Results and Discussions > Improvement of accessibility and reliability of public
million in 2016, from 141 million in 2011, while the transport (PT_IMP)
• Stage-6: Formulation of policy Level Implications
total road length increased to 5.8 million km in 2016 > Promoting Cycling and Walking (PR_CYC_WLK)
from 4.6 million km in 2011
• It is reported that due to the traffic congestion in > Improvement of Road Infrastructure(RINFRA_IMP)
metro cities India is having an annual loss of ₹1500 • The TOPSIS score () for each attribute is obtained
> Shift in Departure Time (SFT_DT)
billion (USD 21 billion)   by considering a positive ideal solution () and
• The average work trip travel time has increased by > Accident Reduction (ACC_RDC) negative ideal solution ().
6% in 2018 as compared to 2017 during peak hours
across the metro cities of India Attribute Rank
• In India from the total trip made per day across the SITE SELECTION AND DATA COLLECTION
RS_IMP 12.986 14.345 0.525 3
country only about 6-9% (70 million by bus, 17 • A questionnaire designed on a standard five-point
CON_RDC 12.436 14.968 0.547 2
million by railways and 0.23 million by air) are made Likert scale was used to conduct personal interviews
using public transport per day against 30-35% in with the car users ENV_IMP 11.981 15.263 0.560 1
most of the countries across the globe • A pilot survey was carried out across the city limits to TT_RDN 13.214 13.864 0.512 4
• This overgrowing traffic demand can be managed identify the major trip generators within the CBD area PT_IMP 15.869 11.356 0.417 7
effectively by demand-oriented management of Hyderabad city limits
techniques such as congestion pricing PR_CYC_WLK 12.493 7.826 0.385 9
• A total of 18 major lo-cations were identified, and
• Congestion pricing has been considered an effective trained survey enumerators were stationed at the RINFRA_IMP 15.347 10.41 0.404 8
Fig-2 Study Methodology
transportation demand management (TDM) identified locations to collect the responses of the car SFT_DT 14.824 14.963 0.466 5
measure to manage traffic congestion and other users
externalities related to congestion ACC_RDC 17.995 15.169 0.457 6
IDENTIFICATION OF MOTIVATORS OF • A total of 435 complete responses were eventually
CONGESTION PRICING used for the TOPSIS analysis
CONCLUSIONS
ANALYTICAL APPROACH
• From the literature review of both the successful and • Step I: Preparation of a decision matrix for ranking • Environment being ranked first by the commuters
failed attempts of congestion pricing implementation • Step II: Calculate the normalized decision matrix suggest more emphasis should be given on the
various attributes were identified environmental aspect of the scheme.
• Step III: Calculate the weighted-normalized decision
• The attributes that can help in increasing the success • Congestion reduction is rated as the second,
matrix by multiplying the normalized decision
rate of congestion pricing implementation were listed matrix by its associated weights suggest to emphasis more on this aspect while
as the motivators of congestion pricing promoting the scheme.
• Step IV: Determine the positive ideal solution and
• Identified motivators were used in developing the • Safety has also been seen as a concern from the
negative ideal solutions
Questionnaire analysis; thus, while implementing the scheme,
• Step V: Calculate the separation measures, based on
planners should also promote the scheme from a
the n-dimensional Euclidean distance
safety perspective.
Fig-1 Vehicular Population of Hyderabad