Synthesizing the Evolution of Multimodal Transportation Planning milestones in Indian Cities

Abstract

Abstract Rapid urbanization and accelerated economic development are witnessed in Indian cities, causing city dwellers’ auto- dependency on private modes of transport and has raised questions over the sustainability of transport infrastructure in cities. Traditionally, India’s urban transport infrastructure was developed with the concept of moving vehicles rather than people.” Thus, the public transport system is inadequate and underdeveloped in most of the Indian cities. However, several initiatives were taken by the Indian government to promote sustainability and transit services were introduced into cities. The newly introduced formal modes of public transport lack integration with the previously existing transport mode at the operational, institutional, and informational level. Also, the physical and fare integration between the modes are missing in most of the Indian cities. With this motivation, the present research tries to understand the evolution of multimodal transport planning in Indian cities. For the present study, 49 planning documents were collected. An attempt was made to analyse the metadata and content of the planning documents dedicated to Multimodal transport planning. The main aim was to assess how multimodal transport has been considered while planning the urban transport infrastructure. The challenges for integrated multimodal transport systems were identified, and appropriate conclusions were derived based on the study.