TY - BOOK AU - Delwadia, Swati AU - Daftardar, Chintan (Guide) TI - Accessibility to work place using BRTS : a case of Ahmedabad (Also available on CD) U1 - P TH-2058 PY - 2017/// N1 - CONTENTS 1 Introduction 1 1 1 Background 1 1 2 Introduction to BRTS as a project in Ahmedabad 1 1 2 1 The Goal of the Project BRTS 2 2 Problem Statement, Aim & Objective 3 2 1 Problem Statement 3 2 2 Aim and Objective of the study 4 3 Methodology 5 4 Literature Review 6 4 1 What is Accessibility? 6 4 2 Components of Accessibility 7 4 2 1 Land Use Component: 7 4 2 2 Transport Component 7 4 2 3 Temporal Component 8 4 2 4 Individual Component 8 4 3 Measuring Accessibility 10 4 3 1 Infrastructure based measures: 10 4 3 2 Location based measures: 10 4 3 3 Person based measures: 10 4 3 4 Utility based measures: 10 4 4 Factors affecting Accessibility 11 4 4 1 Public transport provision in Ahmedabad: Accessibility to work place by AMTS 11 4 4 2 Reducing Travel by Design: Urban Form and the Commute to Work, Case of the County of Surrey, UK: 14 4 4 3 Factors affecting urban transit ridership – Harold M Kohn 17 4 4 4 Women’s safety in Public Transport: A Case of Bhopal 19 4 4 5 Local Accessibility Planning Project Report: 20 4 4 6 Cities as a Labor Market 21 4 5 Inferences of Factors affecting transit ridership: 21 5 Accessibility to Workplace in Ahmedabad 30 5 1 Introduction 30 5 1 1 Demographics of Ahmedabad 31 5 2 Methodology for Analysis 36 5 3 Data Collection 37 5 3 1 Data and Data Source 38 5 4 Data handling 38 5 5 Preliminary Analysis 39 5 5 1 Residence to BRT stop: By walk 40 5 5 2 Workplace to BRT Stop: By walk 42 5 6 Secondary Analysis 44 5 6 1 Accessibility to Naroda GIDC 47 5 6 2 Accessibility to Naroda GIDC from origins 48 5 6 3 Accessibility toOdhav GIDC from origins 49 5 6 4 Accessibility to Odhav GIDC from Origins 50 5 6 5 Accessibility to Vatva GIDC 51 5 6 6 Accessibility to Vatva GIDC from Origins 52 5 6 7 Accessibility to Kalupur Ghee Bazar 53 5 6 8 Accessibility to Kalupur Ghee Bazar from Origins 54 6 Population Served in different Cases 55 6 1 Residential area from which Naroda GIDC is accessible 55 6 2 Residential area from which Odhav GIDC is accessible 56 6 3 Residential area from which Vatva GIDC is accessible 57 6 4 Residential area from which Kalupur Ghee Bazar is accessible 58 7 Limitations of the study 60 8 Conclusion 61 9 Recommendations 62 10 References 63 ER -