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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.