Organizational behavior of Para Transit System in Mehsana City

Abstract

Para transit is urban passenger transportation service operating on public street and highway in mixed traffic
provided by private and public operator.It is an alternative mode of flexible passenger transportation.paratransit mode
play important in urban transport sector of developing countries.IN many cities,more than half of public transport
demand are carried by them.Paratransit is the backbone of gandhinagar city’s non personalized public transport because
the contribution of public bus system in gandhinagar 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 consist of small
passenger capacity vehicles operate on flexible routing and scheduling or fixed routing and flexible scheduling according
to usage of trip makers.there are major types of paratransit modes operating In the study area mainly jeeps,auto
richshaws, 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 servey 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.