TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 5 RESEARCH PROBLEM 6 AIM AND OBJECTIVES 6 RESEARCH DESIGN 7 AN INTRODUCTION TO AHMEDABAD CITY 8 METHODOLOGY 10 LITERATURE REVIEW 11 MOBILITY IN TIME AND SPACE OF URBAN POOR 14 RESULTS 14 CONCLUSION 16 CHAPTER - 1 19 1 INTRODUCTION 19 1.1 BACKGROUND 19 1.2 RESEARCH PROBLEM 20 1.3 THE CASE: 21 1.4 AIM & OBJECTIVES 23 1.5 CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK 24 1.6 LIMITATIONS OF THIS RESEARCH 25 1.7 THESIS OUTLINE 26 CHAPTER - 2 27 2 PERSPECTIVE ON MOBILITY OF URBAN POOR 27 2.1 URBAN POOR 27 2.2 MOBILITY CHARACTERISTICS 28 2.3 MOBILITY AND LIVELIHOOD 29 2.4 LITERATURE REVIEW 30 CHAPTER - 3 37 3 AN INTRODUCTION TO AHMEDABAD CITY 37 3.1 OVERVIEW 37 3.2 POLICIES AND LAWS 38 3.3 DEMOGRAPHY 39 3.4 URBAN TRANSPORT 46 3.5 CONCLUSION 49 CHAPTER - 4 50 4 METHODOLOGY 50 4.1 FIELDWORK 50 4.2 DATA ENTRY AND ANALYSIS 55 4.3 CONCLUSIONS 55 CHAPTER - 5 56 5 MOBILITY IN TIME AND SPACE OF URBAN POOR IN AHMEDABAD 56 5.1 SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS 56 5.2 TRAVEL BEHAVIOR 60 5.3 CROSS CLASSIFICATION ANALYSIS 62 5.4 TIME SPACE ANALYSIS 67 CHAPTER - 6 71 6 CONCLUSION AND FINDINGS 71 6.1 INTRODUCTION 71 6.2 RESEARCH PROBLEMS AND FINDINGS 71 6.3 OBJECTIVES AND FINDINGS 72 7 REFERENCES 75