Table of Content Undertaking Certificate Acknowledgement Chapters Abstract 5 1. Background 6-13 1.1. Introduction 6 1.2. Research Background 6 1.2.1. Role of Public Transport 6 1.2.2. Need of Coordination 7 1.3. Need of the study 8 1.4. Research Problem, Objectives and Research Questions 9 1.5. Research Matrix 10 1.6. Conceptual Research Design 11 1.7. Scope and limitations 12 1.8. Outcomes and implications of the Study 12 1.9. Structure of the study 12 2. Multi-modal Transport Integration 14-22 2.1. Integration/ Coordination as an approach in multi-modal transport system 14 2.2. Hierarchy of Urban Transport of Services 17 2.2.1. What is a Feeder Service 18 2.2.2. Types of Feeder Service 19 2.2.3. Feeder services in India 21 2.3 Findings and Learning 22 3. Understanding feeder service planning 23-38 3.1. Methodology of FSP 23 3.2. Network Design Approaches 28 3.3. Scheduling 30 3.4. Costing 32 3.5. Evaluation Parameters 33 3.6. Case studies 34 3.7. Findings and Learning 38 4. Study Area and Data Collection 39-48 4.1. Growing Role of Metro in India 39 4.2. Delhi Metro as a public transport 39 4.3. Feeder modes of Delhi Metro 41 4.4. Data Collection Approach 44 4.4.1. Database Required 45 4.5. Stop Selection and Study Area Delineation 47 4.5.1. Stop Selection 47 4.5.2. Primary Survey of Commuters 48 4.5.3. Identification of Catchment area 48 5. Assess the demand for feeder service 50-63 5.1. Personal characteristics of commuters 50 5.2. Travel Characteristics of commuters 51 5.3. Commuters? willingness to shift 56 5.4. Supply pattern of available modes for access/dispersal 57 5.5. Strategic nodes identification 60 5.6. Identification Target Groups and System Requirements 61 6. Develop an appropriate feeder service plan 63-76 6.1. Optimize the route plan 63 6.2. Scheduling 71 6.3. Costing 74 6.4. Conclusion 76 7. Conclusion and Recommendations 77-79 7.1. Summary 78 7.2. Conclusions 78 7.3. Recommendations for further research 79 References Appendix