Necessity of a rail over bridge at Vastrapur Railway Crossing

Abstract

Developing country like India, an adequate and efficient transportation system is necessary for economic
growth. Success of a city mainly depends on effective delivery of urban services of which efficient transportation system
can identify as the key elements. Traffic congestion is major problem for smooth flow of vehicles in city transportation
network. With increasing in number of vehicles due to increasing of population in the city it may increasing delay time and
create traffic jam problem at intersection of road and rail cross. Road traffic has been growing with very rapid rate i.e. 8%
per annum (as per IRC), hence the traffic intensity and volume on the road is high.
Ahmedabad is a 7
th largest metropolitan city in India. There are a number of places in Ahmedabad which suffering from
the heavy traffic congestion. Vehicle users have to suffer from heavy traffic congestion mainly on level crossing. Level
Crossings provide a means for vehicles, pedestrians and animals to cross over railway lines or roads. Vastrapur Rail
crossing is one of them, where heavy traffic occurs due to traffic hold up in mainly on peak hours. It require to
improvement weather to provide over pass (rail over bridge) or under pass. This paper consist only upto methodology.
Traffic Survey will be conducted in future and consideration of alterative solutions will be made. Economic Evaluation has
to be done for Vastrapur Railway Crossing for selected alternatives and at last, we will come to the best alternative among
them.