Study of Para Transit System for Small Cities

Abstract

Para transit is urban passenger transportation service operating on public street and highway in mixed
traffic provided by private and public operator. In many cities, more than half of public transport demand are carried by
them. Paratransit is the backbone of city’s non personalized public transport because the contribution of public bus
system in city’s transportation is negligible because of very high waiting time, inadequacy of passenger buses and at
same time availability of para transit. Paratransit system. In the study area mainly jeeps, auto rickshaws, maruti vans,
Tata magic. The characteristics of each mode have been established by conducting different survey such as modal split,
vehicular occupancy and operator survey. The survey carried out all important road distributed all over the city. The
percentage share of paratransit in term of urban passenger movement has been found out with respect all modes. The
approach to transportation system is to focus not just increasing vehicles movement, but improving paratransit mode in
city.