A Seminar

on
A Regional Transportation System for
Raipur & Neighbouring Cities

By:
Himanshu Sonber
MCP, 1st Semester
IIT Kharagpur

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Introduction:
Raipur is the capital city of Chhattisgarh state
and district headquarter.
The city is located centrally in the state and
serves as a regional hub for trade and
commerce.
Raipur is largest city and most populated city
of the Chhattisgarh state.
Raipur, Bhilai and Durg three major cities
situated in central Chhattisgarh in the span of
45 KM.
Naya Raipur is the new capital city of the
state, which is 17 KM away from the current
capital.
Bhilai and Durg are twin cities situated in the
neighbour of the Raipur city.
Both Cities are equally important cities in the
context of Chhattisgarh state.
Bhilai is famous for Indias one of the largest
steel plant Bhilai Steel Plant and Durg is the
district headquarters.

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Introduction:
Presence of three major cities and new capital in such a less distance allow to the
population of more than 1.10 lakhs to commute daily between these cities for their jobs
and administrative works.
Raipur, being an administrative headquarter of the state and important hub of commerce,
it attracts people from neighbouring cities and towns for their jobs.
Bhilai is the Industrial city of the state and also serve as an education hub with the
presence of many technological institutes.

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Scope of Work:
There is lots of scope for designing a good transportation system for Raipur and
neighbouring cities because these are important cities of the state in the context of
administration and commerce.
More than 1.10 lakh people commute daily between these cities and growth rate of
commuters is very high.
Raipur and Durg-Bhilai cities are educational and health center for the region as well as
state.
A good transportation system required for
the region due to administrative,
commercial, health and educational
importance of the cities.

Limitation:
It will be beyond the scope of this
seminar to consider all the neighbouring
settlements of Raipur City.

Aim:
Identifying the efficient transportation
system for the region.

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Neighbouring urban centers to Raipur

RAIPUR URBAN AGGLOMERATION
Being the capital of the state, Raipur has witnessed rapid increase in population.
It includes Raipur Municipal Corporation; outgrowth of Shankar Nagar, Telibandha,
Labhandih, Purena, Amlidih, Changera, Raipurkhas, Raipura, Tatibandha, Hirapur Jarwai,
Khamtarai, Rawabhata; and two census town of Bhanpuri and Mowa.
According to 2001 census, the total
population of Raipur urban
agglomeration was 6,99,264.
After
becoming
capital
of
Chhattisgarh state in 2000, the total
population of Raipur urban
agglomeration
increased
to
11,22,555 because of in-migration.
(Census 2011)

There are three national highways

which pass through Raipur (NH-6,
43 and 200). It has an airport and
it is on the main rail route between
Mumbai and Kolkata.

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Neighbouring urban centers to Raipur

DURG BHILAI URBAN AGGLOMERATION
Durg Bhilai urban agglomeration
includes Durg Municipal Corporation,
Bhilai Nagar Municipal Corporation,
Bhilai Charoda Municipality, Jamul
Nagar Palika and Kumhari Nagar Palika
located in the east part of Seonath River.
According to the 2011 census, the total
population of the urban agglomeration
was 1,064,077.
Durg is a unique mixture of oldness and
modernity,
culture-rite
and
entrepreneurship.
Establishment of Bhilai Steel Plant in
Durg district has created vast
opportunities for industrial progress on
one hand,
On the other hand Durg district has
become centre of many other productive
activities.

Bhilai Nagar is divided into 10 sectors

and various other areas.
It is part of the new towns set up in
independent
India
to
enhance
modernization,
productivity,
development, In contrast to the organic
development seen in Durg.

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Neighbouring urban centers to Raipur

NAYA RAIPUR
A planned and designed Naya Raipur consists of ten fully included and fifteen partly
included villages into the Development Plan. Within the peripheral control zone the total
area under Capital Area Development Authority consist of 48 villages (including 2
villages under Mana Airport).
Considering the importance of Raipur
as a major node in the trade network
of Central India, a site located about
15km southeast from it, was chosen
for Naya Raipur.
The presence of industrial growth
centers on the north and west would
acts as an economic catalyst for the
development of the region.
The transportation network (Mana
airport, NH-6 and NH-43 highways
and proximity to Mumbai-Kolkata
railway
line)
provides
good
connectivity in the regional and
national levels.

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Regional Linkages:
The road network is the most important development determinant of any upcoming
economy of the region.
The Raipur Region is well located and transverse with many roads of national
importance such as The Great Eastern Road (Bombay Kolkata), and Raipur-Vizag.
Besides these, it is also connected by air links with major city of the Country.

ROAD NETWORK:

The region is well connected by national

highways (NH-6, NH-43 and NH-200) and
three state highways (SH-2, 7 and 9).

All the important towns of the Region like

Bhilai (25 km), Durg (41 km), Jagadalpur
(297 Km), Rajnandgaon (70 km), Bilaspur
(115 km) Jabalpur (369 km) and Bhopal
(712 km) are connected with Raipur by
Road.

Naya Raipur City is connected through NH43 near Bhatgaon and NH-6 at Nawagaon
village.

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Regional Linkages:
RAILWAYS:

Railways form a very important aspect of the transportation network in the region as
well as in the State.

It helps to transport a large quantity of minerals within and outside of the state.

The railway network in the state is operated by the south Eastern Railway Headquarters
in Bilaspur.

All the lines runs almost parallel to the National Highways and State Highways.

Raipur and Durg-Bhilai lies on the Bilaspur-Durg section of the Mumbai-Howrah broad
guage line of South-Eastern Railways.

The other lines are from Raipur to Bilaspur and Raipur to Visakhapatnam.

The railway lines and station provide facility for mass communication and goods
transportation over the region.

AIRWAYS:

There is one public airport in the region, Mana Airport is around 13 km from the city of
Raipur in the southeast.

The airport has seen a surge in traffic post after 2006 and presently connects Raipur to
most of the major airports of India & operates 38 flights Daily.

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Distribution of settlements and its impact on work dependency

within Raipur Region:

Raipur acts as a multifunctional city.

The state contiguous urban regions are emerging around Raipur City and Durg-Bhilai.

Cities linked to Mumbai and Kolkata with increasing fast rail and road transport.

The classification of urban centers is based on the specialized function that indicates the
close relationship between population concentration and function.
The concentration of workforce in
different activities reflects the
economic base of the town, which
supports the base population and the
outside population for its services.

Raipur and Durg have shown

diversied economy where service
and trade and commerce are the
dominant activity.

Bhilai is still functioning as industrial

town, where more than 40% of
workforce is engaged in industrial
activity.

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Population Growth and Density:

As per 2011 census, the total population of the

Raipur urban agglomeration is 11,22,555.
the total population of the Durg-Bhilai urban
agglomeration is 10,64,077.
Raipur urban agglomeration has maximum
population followed by Durg-Bhilai urban
agglomeration since these are the most
industrially developed areas not only in the
region but also in the state.

Urban Agglomeration Population

Population

1200000
1000000
800000
600000
400000
200000
0

Raipur

Durg-Bhilai

2001

699264

723559

2011

1122555

1064077

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Master Plan and City structure: Raipur

The city structure of Raipur is defined by a strong nucleus which is the intersection of GE
road and NH 200. It acts as a major node for commercial and public / semi-public activities.
The growth of the city is apparently guided by the NH-6 which runs on the southern
periphery of the city and restricted along the northern side by the railway line. This led to the
growth of industries and wholesale markets and go-downs along it which triggered the
expansion on the north-eastern and south-western side of the city.

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Master Plan: Durg

Durg City has been divided into four

planning zones.

Residential Zone & commercial zone

29% and 4% of the total developed Area.

Naya Raipur

The Master Plan defines 9 different land use

zones, which classify all areas inside Layer-I.

Besides the basic 9 land use zones, two

additional special zones are defined to cover
Layers II (Rural Zone) and III (Airport Zone).

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Master Plan: Bhilai

At present there is no comprehensive development plan for Bhilai city. Except for the BSP
township area, rest of the city is developed in a haphazard manner thus giving rise
problems like intermixing of land-use, lack of amenities, traffic problems, shortage of
accommodation, etc.

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Traffic Situation:

The traffic on the NH6 and NH43

are characterized by a high degree
of motorized vehicles, which consist
of passenger vehicles such as cars,
two
wheelers,
buses
and
commercial vehicles such as Light
commercial vehicles (LCVs) and
Trucks. Non-motorized vehicles in
the traffic stream consist mostly of
bicycles with negligible number of
animal drawn vehicles.

National Highway 6 cater approximate 23000

vehicles each day between Raipur and Durg.

In which passenger buses share 15% of the

23000 vehicles each day.

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Case Study:

Regional Plan 2021 for National Capital Region

National Capital Region Planning Board

prepared the Regional Plan with the
perspective year 2021 for the National
Capital Region (NCR) for balanced and
harmonized development of the
National Capital Region.

The Region covers an area of 33,578

square kilometres

with 1,483 sq kms (about 4.41%) falling

in the National Capital Region Territory
of Delhi;

13,413 sq kms (about 39.95%) falling in

the Haryana Sub-Region;

7,829 sq kms (about 23.32%) falling in

the Rajasthan Sub-Region;

10,853 sq kms (about 32.32%) falling in

the Uttar Pradesh Sub-Region.

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Case Study:

Regional Plan 2021 for National Capital Region

TRANSPORT PLAN:

National Capital Region (NCR) is a high

intensity, multi-level and
multi-modal
travel region.
There is high intensity of intra-regional
movement within NCR amongst Delhi and
the regional centres & sub-regional centres
and amongst themselves.
Regional Plan-2021 proposed development
of road & rail network in the region in order
to provide efficient and economic rail/road
based transportation networks (including
mass transport systems).
It proposed a hierarchical system of road
network.
It also proposed development of Regional
Rapid Transit System (RRTS) to connect
regional towns with Delhi and with Subregional Centres; orbital rail and Mass
Rapid Transit System (MRTS) for Delhi.

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Case Study:
Metrobus: Bus Rapid Transit System Istanbul, Turkey

Istanbul, a city of nearly 14 million

inhabitants sprawling across over
5,000 sq. km.

It is one of the largest cities in the

world and serves as a major commerce
hub for country.

Istanbul has a comprehensive public

transportation system including commuter
rail, metro, light rail, and a network of city
buses and minibuses.

Around 53 percent of inhabitants use one or

more forms of public transportation daily.

Istanbul is divided into two sections

by the Bosporus sea channel, forming
the natural boundary between Europe
and Asia.

construction of Istanbuls metro system

complicated, as a result, the citys aboveground public transport options are more
developed than its metro.

The Asian side is predominantly

residential, while the European side is
home to most of the citys businesses
and workplaces.

The largest proportion (64%) of benefits

comes from travel time reductions, followed
by vehicle operating cost reductions (23%)
and increased traffic safety (9%).

Transportation in Istanbul has been

heavily reliant on road-based options
(92.3 percent) compared to rail (5.5
percent) and water (2.2 percent)

The largest proportion of users of the BRT

system are in the lower- and middle-income
groups, though benefits exceeded costs in all
income groups.

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Case Study: Metrobus: Bus Rapid Transit System Istanbul, Turkey

Metrobs operates on dedicated lanes

throughout the rest of the system.

While this approach does place

Metrobs in general traffic lanes, it
allows Metrobs to skip the queue and
move quickly than general traffic.

The system serves an estimated

600,000 passenger trips every day,
with a maximum load of 30,000 trips
per hour per direction.

Metrobs is able to achieve this level

of service by running at a very high
frequency during peak hours (up to
one bus every 30 seconds).

With no signalized stops or

intersections, Metrobs is able to
operate at an average speed of 40
km/hr.

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Conclusion:

Transport affects our daily lives in its myriad forms.

It influences economic development, population distribution, the shape of cities, energy
consumption, access to markets and quality of life.
It contributes substantially to gross domestic product, absorbs large investments and
provides employment for millions of people.

RAIPUR REGION:

Raipur and its neighboring cities are

important in the state context and also in
the context of central India.
These cities serve as administrative,
commercial, educational and health
centers for the state, so people of state
travel in the large nos. every day.
To cater this large population region
required better transportation alternative.
Recently, Raipur ranked 3rd in the list of
most polluted city of the India because of
absence of efficient public transport
system, so people prefer private vehicles
instead of public system.

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Proposal:

Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) for Raipur and its

neighbouring cities, because bus network provides more
connectivity to different parts of region.

Buses provides flexible in terms of numbers and sizes,

Mini buses are more efficient in the narrow roads.

Naya
Raipur

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Proposal:

Dedicated road network for BRTS, parallel to NH-6, NH-43 and Railway Line, so it could be
integrated with the existing system.

Dedicated road network for BRTS, because of traffic and heavy vehicle movement in
National Highways and State Highways..

Dedicated road network, so buses can move quickly. It will provide high efficiency and it
will save time.

Integration of existing city bus system with BRTS.

Project can be done in different

phases.

I.

In Phase-I Raipur to DurgBhilai.

II.

In Phase-II expansion of BRTS

with in cities.

III.

In Phase-III expansion to near

by urban areas and integration
with proposed New Raipur
BRTS.

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Bus Rapid Transit System:

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