Roads heirarchies

1. ROADS

2. Area covered by roads: 5%
Total Length of Road: 53.71 km
Density of Roads in Ward: 8.59 km/sq. km
Areas covered by study:
• Road Hierarchy
• Footpaths
• Streetlights
• Public Transports
• Road Signs
• Parking
• Traffic Analysis
General Prof ile

3. Road Types
Space
Standards (m)
Design Speed
(kmph)
Urban
Expressway
50-60 80
Arterial Road 50-80 50
Sub-Arterial
Road
30-50 50
Collector Road 12-30 30
Local Road 12-20 10-20
Access Road 6-15 15
Road Types
Road
Distribution
(km)
Road Density
(km/km^2)
Internal Roads 16.63 2.66
Access Roads 28.97 4.63
Local Roads 3.67 0.58
Collector Roads 1.86 0.29
Sub-Arterial Roads 2.52 0.40
Total 53.71 8.59
Source: URDPFI (January 2015)
Road Hierarchy

4. Primary Collector Roads
ROW 30-40 m
Speed Range 20-30 km/hour
Speed Control Enforcement and traffic calming
required
Bus ways for BRT Segregated bus ways possible on
ROW above 36 m
Cycle Tracks Cycle tracks to be minimum 2.5 m
wide if block lengths are above 250
m
Motorized Lanes 2 to 3 motorized lanes per direction
Service Lanes No service lane required
Medians Intermittent or no median
Source: URDPFI
Sub- arterial Road

5. Collector Roads
ROW 12-20 m
Speed Range 10-20 km/hour
Speed Control Traffic calming required
Bus ways for BRT No segregated bus ways
Cycle Tracks No cycle tracks
Motorized Lanes No minimum lane width
Service Lanes No service lane required
Medians No median
Collector Road

6. Local Roads

7. Access Roads

8. Internal Roads

9. Use Width
Residential/Mixed Use Areas 1.8 m
Commercial/Mixed Use 2.5 m
Shopping Frontage 3.5- 4.5 m
BUS Stops 3 m
High Intensity Commercial
Areas
4 m
Source: URDPFI
Footpaths

10. Streetlight
s

11. AC B
A- Below the lamp- Maximum value of Luminosity
B- Middle of the road- Vehicular visibility
C- Side of the road- Pedestrian visibility
UTTIPEC Master
plan 2021 for
Roads
BIS 1981
SLB for Urban
Transport
Non-shopping
areas= 30 LUX
Shopping areas=
20 to 25 LUX
Sub-arterial roads=
15 LUX
Local Roads= 4 LUX
Collector Roads= 4
LUX
Access Roads= 4
LUX
All roads should
have 8 LUX
Luminosity

12. Streetlight
Adequacy
40
20
60
0
Residential
Commercial
Mixed-Use

13. •Total no. of BRTS bus stops: 4
•Total no. of AMTS bus stops: 34:
•33% of the people use Public Transport.
Public Transport

14. Road Signs
Mandatory/Regulatory
Speed Limit
Only BRTS
Cycle Track
Give Way
No Parking
Cautionary/Warning
Gap in Median
Bump Ahead
School Ahead
Narrow Road Ahead
Gap in Median
Cross-Road Ahead
Work in Progress
T-Junction Ahead
Informatory
AMTS
Directions
Parking

15. Parking

16. Traf f ic
Analy sis

17. Towards Sabarmati
Railway Station
(Road 2)- Local Road
2887+950= 3,837
Towards Adalaj
(Road 3)- Sub-arterial Road
3162+4693= 7,855
Towards RTO Circle
(Road 1)- Local Road
4086+7548= 11,634
Towards Torrent Power Plant
(Road 4)- Access Road
10+4= 14
4086
4
4693
(4300)
2887
7548
950
3162
(4300)
10
Evening – 7:30 to 8:30
30th March 2015
AEC Circle

18. Issues: Interventions:
Some Slums have no street lights. Provision of10 to 15 low mast streetlights.
High mast floodlight is inadequate.
More lights around the high mast
floodlight.
The residential areas on the left towards
the end of Motera road lack street lights
completely.
Provision of street lights in the newly
developed areas.
Many street lights are not in a working
condition.
Maintenance and alternate spacing of
trees and street lights.
Low luminance due to the growth of
trees.
Timely trimming of the extra branches
blocking the street lights.
STREET LIGHTS
Issues: Interventions:
Presence of un-signalized junctions
Timely maintenance of traffic lights.
Absence of traffic policemen.
Provision of traffic policemen on major
junctions to reduce congestion.
Non working signals
Provision of safer pedestrian crossings
and pathways on junctions.
Junctions
Issues and Interv entions
Streetlights

19. Issues: Interventions:
Low visibility due to
obstruction or poor
maintenance.
Timely trimming of trees to increase
visibility.
Some signs are bent over
which are not serving their
purpose.
Proper maintenance to increase
visibility.
Provision of more signs where there is
more of traffic, conflict points and
congestion to increase safety.
Issues: Interventions:
Narrow, unusable footpaths
provided on roads which do not
require them.
Increase in width of footpaths on
wide roads to encourage
pedestrian movement.
Hawkers and parking of vehicles
on the footpaths reducing
pedestrian movement.
Provision of footpath only where
required.
Dilapidated footpaths on most of
the roads.
Reduction in onsite parking on
footpaths.
Blockage of footpaths due to
broken street furniture.
Maintenance of street furniture
on the footpaths.
Road signs
Footpaths
Issues and Interv entions Cont.

20. Issues:
• High traffic is seen especially in the market area due
to parking of two-wheelers as well as four wheelers
on the narrow congested roads.
• There is also a spill over of parking outside the
market areas due to insufficient parking.
• There are a very less percentage of roads having
legal parking on the site. Rest all the parking
observed was illegal.
• Due to insufficient parking, People park on the
footpaths and that creates congestion.
Interventions:
Some of parking in and
around the high density
parking areas can be
diverted to nearby vacant
plots that are currently
used as dumpsites. The
areas are shows as follows:
12:30 PM
Issues and Interv entions Cont.