Trip Distribution Of Commercial Vehicle: -

A Case Study For RAJKOT CITY

By Under graduate students at MEFGI

Sahil S. Mehta, Meet D. Pansuria, Vivek S. Savaliya, Montu B. Detroja

Abstract: Urban transportation planning is a process which consists of Trip generation, Trip
distribution, Mode choice, Route assignment. Trip generation is the first stage in the convectional
four-step transportation forecasting process. Trip distribution is derived from trip generation data.
Trip distribution is the second stage in the traditional four-step transportation forecasting model.
Different methods were adopted or utilized in collection of trip distribution data in past. In this
project, by adoption of different types of surveys for commercial vehicles was carried out for trip
distribution for Rajkot city. The reason behind choosing the Rajkot city is due to it's place in
22nd world's fastest growing city & 28th urban agglomeration in India.

Introduction: Transportation occupies a high place in modern life. Advancement in all spheres of
life has been to a large extent influence by transportation. Transport planning is a science that seeks
to study the problems that arise in providing transportation facilities in an urban, regional, or national
setting and to prepare a systematic basis for planning such facilities. Since the developed countries
where this science has evolved are mainly urban-oriented the emphasis is more on urban transport
planning. However, the principles of urban transport planning can be applied to regional or national
transport planning as well with due changes wherever called for.

Though motor vehicles have revolutionized our life and brought comfort, pleasure and
convenience, they have created problems of congestion, lack of safety and degeneration of the
environment. The situation has already become unmanageable in many towns and cities. To
understand the nature of these problems and formulate proposals for the safe and efficient
movement of goods & people from one place to another is the subject of transport planning.
There are four various stages of transport planning model:

TRANSPORT PLANNING PROCESS

TRIP
TRIP
TRAFFIC
MODAL

GENERATION
DISTRIBUTION
ASSIGNMENT
SPILT

Flow Chart Of Transport Planning Process

Definition:

Trip Generation: The first phase of transportation planning process deals with surveys, data collection and
inventory. The next phase is the analysis of the data so collected and building
models to describe the mathematical relationship that can be discerned in the trip-making
behaviour.The analysis and model building phase starts with the step commonly known as Trip
Generation.

Trip generation is a general term used in the transportation planning process to

cover the field of calculating the numbers of trip ends in a given area.

Trip Distribution: After having obtained an estimate of the trips generated from and attracted to the
various zones, it is necessary to determine the direction of travel. The
numbers of trips generated in every zones of the area under study has to be apportioned to the various
zones to which these trips are attracted.
Traffic assignment: Traffic assignment is the stage in the transport planning process where in
the trip interchanges are allocated to different parts of the network forming the
transportation system.

In this stage,

The route to be travelled is determined and

The inter-zonal flows are assigned to the selected routes.

Modal split: Modal spilt is the process of separating person-trips by the mode of travel. It is
usually expressed as a fraction, ratio or percentage of the total number of trips. In general,
modal spilt refers to the trips made by private car as opposed to the public transport (road or
rail).

Study area: The area for which transportation facilities are being planned is first of all
defined, is known as study area.
Need of Study:
Owing to the steady growth of industrialization, there has been a steep rise in the traffic load
on the highways and in the central business districts in Rajkot. The current government is
trying to come up with truck terminals in Rajkot for some time to address a number of ever
growing issues especially in and around the central business districts and along the major
highways. The aim has to reduce the congestion, pollution, damage to roads and accidents on
the city roads and the highways. This case study will explore the possible models to
determine capacities of such terminals and to address the different needs.

Methodology:

The survey was conducted during term period and it was not necessary for the entire day,
depending on proper lighting, weather and safety conditions. A detailed literature review was
also important approach to assembling data for this report. There are various methods
available for collecting data. Such as,

Mailout-Mailback method

Roadside Interview method

Combined Telephone Mailout-Mailback method

Telephone Interview method

Among from these methods, Road side interview method is taken for survey. The data
collection included company’s profile, trip origin & destination information, number of trip
generate between O&D. The location for survey is RUDA (Rajkot Urban Transport Area) &
IOC (Indian Oil Corporation Ltd.).

Aim of study:

To identify the problem and give reasonable and feasible solutions to improve parking
problem, traffic congestion etc.

To propose a truck terminal for Rajkot city to overcome traffic congestion.

Objectives of study:
The study was to generate data and information concerning commercial vehicles trip generation & trip
distribution.
Propose a Truck terminal where truck’s parking, loading-unloading etc. are possible for Rajkot city.

Sr.
Title of paper

Author

Year

Major contribution

No
1

Restructuring the truck

Faculty Contributor:
2010

Locations have been identified

terminal infrastructure

S.Nayana Tara,

in this article which will be

in Karnataka

Professor
served well by a new truck

Student Contributors :

terminal. A model based on

Mitranjan Bhaduri,

queuing theory has also been

Nithin Chandra G.S.,

proposed
to

determine
the
Nishant Kumar Ojha and

capacities

of
the
truck

Debashish Sadangi

terminals. Going forward, these

terminals are expected to solve

the traffic related problems in

Karnataka.
However,
the

success of these terminals is

critically

dependent
on

government

policies
and

incentives.
2

NCHRP Synthesis

Kuzmyak
2008

For trip
generation method

report 384

vehicle
type,
origin
and
destination and nature of stops

are required.
3
Truck Trip Data
Jessup, Casavant and
2004
It identified the
related
data

Collection Methods
Lawson

application,
costs,
advantages

(SPR 343)

and
disadvantages
of
four

survey method.

4
Strategic Freight
Casavant and Jessup
Spring, 2003
This
assignment
allowed
for

Transportation Analysis
very
detailed and
accurate

(SFTA)

analysis between any attributes

from the survey data to

anything
that
has
a

geographical property.

5
Truck trip generation
Fischer, Michael J. and
2001
It provides a very recent and

data : A synthesis of
Han Myong

through review of truck trip

highway practice

generation
studies
throughout
NCHRP synthesis 298

U.S

6
Truck Travel Surveys :
Samuel W. Lau
January,1995
Commissioned to help evaluate

A review of literature

the need for truck planning &

& state of the art

forecasting tools and to report

the
different

surveys

experiences by MPOs.
Table 1. Literature review

Why to choose Rajkot city?

Rajkot is legendary for its jewelry market, silk embroidery and watch components. The town hosts many little scale
producing industries. a number of the commercial product that Rajkot is thought include bearings, diesel engines,
kitchen knives and different cutting appliances, watch components (cases & bracelets), automotive components,
formation business, casting business, machine tools, share market and software system development. The
city is additionally home to a number of the biggest CNC machine and automobile
components makers within the country like Jyoti CNC Automation Ltd. & Manpower CNC
Machines Pvt. Ltd. and Atul automotive vehicle Ltd.

Rajkot is accepted throughout the globe for its casting and shaping industries.[citation
needed] Over the previous couple of years, it's began to play an progressively necessary role
within the advanced provide chains of the many international engineering firms that build
product like electrical motors, vehicles, machine tools, bearings, shafts etc.

There are concerning 500 factory units in Rajkot. The cluster came up principally to cater to
the casting necessities of the native diesel engine trade. The geographical unfold of the cluster
includes Aji Vasahat, Gondal Road, Bhavanagar Road areas, Shapar, Veraval and Metoda.
The bulk of manufacturing plant units in Rajkot manufacture grey iron castings for the
domestic market. A awfully little proportion (about 2%) of the manufacturing plant units
export castings like electric motor castings, automobile castings etc. There are some major
gear manufacturing companies in Rajkot like, Mahindra Gears, Synnova Gears and
Transmission Pvt. Ltd. etc. Rajkot is also popular for its gold purity and has one of the bigger
gold markets in India.

Rajkot is additionally growing up in software system Industries and Its. There are several
SOHO companies operating in web Development together with several new international call
centers and software system companies putting in their operations and development centers in
Rajkot.

Rajkot's sister town Morbi is additionally a manufacturing hub for ceramics business, wall clocks
business and electrical accessories. The town may be a home to massive industries like Ajanta
Clock, ORPAT group, Samay group, Sonera Industries, Rickon Quartz etc.

In the close to future, the govt. of Gujarat will allot large land areas for the event of Special
Economic Zone which can be compound in 3 completely different areas and can embody
industries like software system, Auto-Mobiles, etc. As per recent market reviews, Rajkot is
turning into Asia's biggest Auto-Mobile Zone. Rajkot is also known for its textile printing
units which produce and print silk sarees, cotton salwar suits.

Rajkot is additionally home to a number of India's leading snacks makers like Balaji Wafers
Pvt. Ltd, Gopal Snacks Pvt. Ltd and is home to one of India's leading share broker Marwadi
Shares & Finance Ltd.

Data collection & Analysis:

The name of transport companies where we visited are as under:

V-Trans

V-Express

Jamnagar Transport
Lalji Mulji Transport co.

IOC (Indian Oil Corporation)

VRL Logistics limited

Himalaya Logistics

Lalji Mulji Transport Co.

Sr. no.
Name of state
No. of trucks (Incoming)
No. of trucks (Outgoing)

1.
Gujarat (Ahm. Baroda,
8 (D)
4 (D)

Surat, etc.)

2.
Maharashtra
10 (D)
5 (D)

3.
Karnataka
3 (D)
3 (D)

4.
North Delhi
15 (D)
6 (D)
Sr. no.
Name of state
No. of trucks (Incoming)
No. of trucks (Outgoing)

1.
Gujarat (Ahm. Baroda,
30 (W)
25 (W)

Surat, etc.)

2.
Maharashtra
65 (W)
30 (W)

3.
Karnataka
20 (W)
18 (W)

4.
North Delhi
50 (W)
32 (W)
 VRL Logistics Ltd.

Sr. no.
Name of city
No. of trucks (Incoming)
No. of trucks (Outgoing)

1.
Ahmedabad
2 (D)
3 (D)

2.
Bangalore
-
1 (D)

3.
Hyderabad
-
-

4.
Kerala
2 (D)
1 (D)
Sr. no.
Name of city
No. of trucks (Incoming)
No. of trucks (Outgoing)

1.
Ahmedabad
12 (W)
20 (W)

2.
Bangalore
02 (W)
07 (W)

3.
Hyderabad
02 (W)
-

4.
Kerala
13 (W)
08 (W)
 Jamnagar Transport Service.

Sr. no.
Name of city
No. of trucks (Incoming)
No. of trucks (Outgoing)

1.
Ahmedabad
9 (D)
6 (D)

2.
Baroda
1 (D)
2 (D)

3.
Surat
2 (D)
3 (D)

4.
Jamnagar
2 (D)
2 (D)

5.
Ankleshwar
1 (D)
1 (D)
6.
Nadiad
1 (D)
1 (D)

7.
Vapi
-
1 (D)
Sr. no.
Name of city
No. of trucks (Incoming)
No. of trucks (Outgoing)

1.
Ahmedabad
60 (W)
40 (W)

2.
Baroda
07 (W)
15 (W)

3.
Surat
14 (W)
20 (W)

4.
Jamnagar
12 (W)
14 (W)

5.
Ankleshwar
06 (W)
07 (W)

6.
Nadiad
08 (W)
05 (W)

7.
Vapi
-
06 (W)