Issues and Challenges in Implementing Transit Oriented

Abstract

Rapid growth in urbanisation is taking place all over the world, especially in developing countries like India Metropolitan cities and class I cities are facing more problems related to traffic and transportation, environmental and social related issues. This puts people's lives in dangerous situation, To make the city liveable and also to keep the future generations on safer side, transportation engineers and planners have a comprehensive solution through implication of Transit Oriented Development (TOD). This paper will discuss in detail how TOD will address the above said problems and suggestion to implement best optimal TOD. Since Indian cities were already overcrowded and land use diversity and number of mix use buildings proportions were very good. Hence Indian cities have potential to grow into successful grow into TOD projects, but absence of integration between land use and transport and absence of appropriate street designs provides a barrier for construction of TOD projects. Metro cities are having fewer opportunities to develop TOD concept as they are highly dense in build environment. In other words, in these cities green field brown field development is highly not possible. So the vision has to move from metro cities to class I cities or medium populated cities to adopt TOD. Integration of landuse has to take place at initial stage of public transport projects for Class I and Class II cities so on.