PCEF Traffic and Transportation Group 10 Jan docs

Pune Traffic and Transportation
Framework for Environment Status Report


Policy and legislative framework
National Urban Transport Policy
Report on the Working Group for the 11th Five Year Plan on Urban Transport including MRTS (not yet passed into law)
Draft concept note on Pune’s transport vision pending legislative approval for two years
Committee recently appointed by State Government to ‘look into Pune’s transport problems’. Unclear what their mandate/role is.
No other known policy or body.

Responsible agencies
PMC: Road building, maintenance; signals; footpaths; cycle tracks; parks; parking lots; deciding on one-ways, no-entry roads etc. including IRDP roads, flyovers etc.
PCMC and the cantonment boards: Similar roles within their areas?
Traffic Police: Enforcing traffic rules (signals, parking, driving without license); fining offenders; dealing with accidents etc.
RTO: Issuing licenses to people, vehicles to ply.

Indicators
Three kinds of indicators:
Economic indicators: To reflect economic impact of transportation
Social indicators: To reflect impact of transportation on equity, community, human issues
Environmental indicators: To reflect environmental impacts.

Ideally, these indicators should be used in an environment where there are specific goals to be achieved, targets to be met – in other words, the city has a vision with respect to these issues. Today in Pune, we do not have the luxury of such a vision, but it will still be a useful thing to benchmark where we are even if we are not sure where we want to go.

The list of indicators can be much more elaborate than what is listed here, but it may be good to begin with a small set of indicators while being aware that other indicators also should be considered in future. Such indicators are listed in the final section.

Economic indicators
Average time to commute
Average distance commuted
Modal shares of different transport modes (mainly walking, cycling, bus, two-wheeler, four-wheeler, three-wheeler, train)
Number of vehicles registered, and the number plying on roads; both by vehicle type
Amount of goods / cargo traffic in the city
Quantity of goods / cargo
Number / type of vehicles
Inter-city transport
Number of vehicles and people boarding / disembarking
By type (ST, private bus, train)
Total road length

Social indicators
% of road length safe, convenient, usable for pedestrians
% of road length safe, convenient, usable for cyclists
% of road length safe, convenient, usable for senior citizens
% of road length safe, convenient, usable for children
Total road length with dedicated, usable cycle tracks (and perhaps total road length with cycle tracks as on official records)
Percentage of family budget spent on travel – classified by economic category
Accidents
Classified by type (fatal, serious, minor)
Classified by victim type (pedestrian, cyclist, …)
Classified by time (early hours, morning, afternoon …)
Classified by region
Public transport indicators
How easy is it to access?
How reliable is it?
How frequent is it?
How ‘consumer-friendly’ is it?
How expensive is it?
How viable is it (earning / expense relationship)?

Environmental indicators
Number of trees cut for road related activities and number planted elsewhere (including details of where cut and where planted)
Air pollution (particulate, non-particulate etc.)
Preferably broken down by region to facilitate impact of proximity to main roads, big parks, wooded sections etc.
No. of vehicles plying with / without PUCs
Fossil fuel consumption (by type, preferably by vehicle also)
Total number and size of public (unpaved) open spaces, gardens and their per-capita values

Some other possible indicators
Employment accessibility (job opportunities within walking distance)
Service accessibility (basic services such as schools, shops, government offices within walking distance)
Vehicle-km travelled per capita per day
Per capita congestion delay
Transport investments (City’s investment into different transport infrastructures)
Transport services for non-drivers, disabled etc.
Noise pollution
Habitat protection / destruction
Mix of fuel shares, % using CNG, % using electric vehicles etc.