TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS v LIST OF TABLES vii LIST OF FIGURES viii 1 INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 BACKGROUND 1 1.2 RESEARCH PROBLEM 3 1.3 AIM 4 1.4 RESEARCH OBJECTIVES AND QUESTIONS 4 1.5 RESEARCH DESIGN 5 1.6 RESEARCH MATRIX 6 1.7 OUTLINE OF THE RESEARCH 7 1.8 SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS OF THIS RESEARCH 8 1.9 APPLICABILITY OF THE PROPOSED RESEARCH 8 2 UNDERSTANDING ACCESSIBILITY 9 2.1 INTRODUCTION TO ACCESSIBILITY 9 2.2 DEFINING PUBLIC TRANSPORT ACCESSIBILITY 10 2.3 COMPONENTS OF ACCESSIBILITY 13 2.4 MEASURING ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC TRANSPORT 14 2.5 TRANSIT JOURNEY COMPONENTS AND ITS VALUES 18 3 DEFINING ACCESSIBILITY AND ITS MEASURE FOR THE STUDY 21 3.1 ACCESSIBILITY DEFINITION 21 3.2 DEVELOPING A FRAMEWORK FOR MEASURING ACCESSIBILITY BY PUBLIC TRANSPORT 21 4 UNDERSTANDING DESTINATION ACCESSIBILITY: A CASE OF AHMEDABAD 24 4.1 OVERVIEW OF AHMEDABAD 24 4.2 PUBLIC TRANSPORT SCENARIO IN AHMEDABAD 25 4.2.1 AHMEDABAD MUNICIPAL TRANSPORT SERVICE 25 4.2.2 AHMEDABAD BUS RAPID TRANSIT SYSTEM (BRT) 25 4.2.3 FUTURE PLANS 26 4.3 DATA INPUT 27 4.4 DATA PROCESSING 28 4.5 DESTINATION ACCESSIBILITY 28 4.5.1 BASE SCENARIO 28 4.5.2 DESTINATION ACCESSIBILITYAT AGGREGATE LEVEL 31 4.5.3 DESTINATION ACCESSIBILITY AT DISAGGREGATE LEVEL 32 4.6 EVALUATING IMPACT OF PUBLIC TRANSPORT IMPROVEMENT MEASURES ON ACCESSIBILITY 35 4.6.1 SCENARIO BUILDING AND DESCRIPTION 35 4.7 COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF ALL SCENARIOS 50 4.7.1 AT AGGREGATE LEVEL 50 4.7.2 AT DISAGGREGATE LEVEL 51 5 CONCLUSION 56 5.1 GENERAL CONCLUSION 56 5.2 KEY FINDINGS 56 6 REFERENCES 58