ROUTE RATIONALIZATION FOR CITY BUS

TRANSPORT & INTERMEDIATE PUBLIC

TRANSPORT

BHOPAL- AN INTRODUCTION

Capital of Madhya Pradesh with city Population 18.43

Lac (Census 2011) having Municipal area of 285 sq.
km. and Planning area (2005) of 603 Sq Km.

National Highway No. 12 - 86 & State Highway No 18 -

23 Passes through city.

City is also well connected to other Major cities by

means of Air & Rail.

Around 500 Intercity Buses, 150 Trains & 14 Daily

flights cater to the daily Transport needs of the city.

State-of-Art Inter State Bus Terminus (ISBT), Four

Regional Bus Stands, Three Railway stations and
International Airport
 VIDISHA
(Satellite Town)
NH 86A

SH 23
NH 12
RAISEN
(Industrial
Town)

SEHORE NH 86A
(Satellite Town)
NH 86

MANDIDEEP
DEWAS (Industrial Town)
(Industrial NH 86
Town)

NH 12

ACTIVITY CENTERS IN BHOPAL CITY

Urban Growth
Center
Ur Ce
ba n
n ter
Gr
ow
th

Bairagarh
Core City

MP Nagar & BHEL

Board Office

New Market
(CBD)
e r th
nt w
Ce Gro

Arera Col
n
ba

&
Ur

Shahpura

Urban Growth Mandideep

Center
 INDEX
BHOPAL : ROUTE RATIONALIZATION

Urban Transport Scenario in 2009

Need for Route Rationalization

Traffic & Travel Characteristics 2009

Traffic & Transport Surveys for Route rationalization

Hierarchical Route Network

Brainstorming & Consultations for Route

Development

Final Route Network

URBAN TRANSPORT SCENARIO

2009
Modes Share of Remarks %
passenger Trips (Total No. of Vehicles)
(%)
Public Transport Mode 5.3 Rapid Transit (0) 00.0
Standard Bus (BCLL) (39) 05.3

Intermediate Public 49.0 Mini-Bus (600) 31.0

Transport Tata Magic (500) 12.3
Auto (3,000) 05.2
Taxi 00.5
Private Mode 37.4 Two Wheeler (300,000) 34.5
Cars (100,000) 4.9
Non-motorized Mode 8.3 Cycle + Cycle Van 8.3

Total 100 100

URBAN TRANSPORT SCENARIO
2009
NEED FOR BUS ROUTE
RATIONALIZATION
 Integrated transportation planning was
necessary to make entire public Transport
System organized .
 Planning of Public transportation routes
through route rationalization study eliminated
the Inter-modal Competition and made the
public transportation system financial viable.
 M/s Urban Mass Transit Company Ltd.( UMTC)
was consultant for route rationalization study.

BHOPAL – TRAFFIC & TRAVEL

CHARACTERISTICS

Total trips-1.0 lakh trips per day

Existing System of public transport dominated by Mini

Buses and Tempos (IPT modes)

All modes – Standard buses, mini buses and tempos

operate on the same route
D is trib u tio n o f T rip s B y M o d e

Cy c le Car
4.3% 1 .5 %
A uto
2.7%

Min i Bu s
15 .9 %
Oth er s
0.3% W alk
48.5 %
S tand ar d B us
2 .7 %

Ta x i
0.2 %
Tempo
6.3%
Tw o W h eeler
1 7.7%
 METHODOLOGY

Secondary
Existing PT Routes SWOT Survey Data
Analysis Analysis

OD Survey BA Survey Opinion Survey

Existing Capacity Analysis

Occupancy Levels Travel Pattern and peaking Existing Modal Split
Characteristics

Base OD generation from Zonal Trip PV Assignment

Ends PT Assignment

B A

METHODOLOGY

B A
Route OD Trunk Standard Bus Stops
Rationalisation and Feeder Terminals
route Depots

Route Rationalization

Fleet, Schedule PT Service Plan Fare Structure

and Frequency

PT Operations Service Plan

IDENTIFICATION OF ROUTES FOR MULTI
MODAL PUBLIC TRANSPORT SERVICE PLAN
FOR CITY OF BHOPAL

Previous CBS Operations were not successful due to

 Inter-modal Competition

 Makes Organized Public Transport Services non-viable.

 Leads to chaos – speeding of vehicles.

Learning from previous experiences rational segregation of

route structure for collective viability of entire public
transport system was conducted.

The detailed traffic volume surveys, O/D survey, B&A survey,

opinion survey were taken up.

TRANSPORTATION SURVEY FOR PUBLIC

TRANSPORT OPERATIONS IN BHOPAL CITY -
2009

Road network Inventory

Classified Traffic Volume Count

Origin and Destination Survey

Speed and Delay survey

Occupancy survey

Bus Boarding-Alighting Survey

 SURVEY DETAILS

SN Surveys Objectives Coverage Duration (hrs) Interval

To Acquire Information On
Classified 3 Outer cordon
Section Wise and Junction wise
Traffic points, 3 screen
1 Daily And Peak Hour Traffic 16 15 Minutes
Volume lines and 9 mid
Volume And Composition On
Count blocks
each Corridor.

Origin and To assess the Traffic Peak

2 Destination generation and attraction On bus stops 16 (Morning
Survey points in the city & Evening)

To find the utilization

Boarding
percentage of buses and
3 Alighting On bus stops Major selected bus stops
routes and the trip pattern per
Survey
routes
To find the tentative corridors
Bus route All bus
4 of buses plying on various On board -
survey routes both
routes

SURVEY DETAILS –
CLASSIFIED TRAFFIC VOLUME COUNT

NH 12 HOSHANGABAD ROAD

SH 18 – INDORE ROAD
 SURVEY DETAILS – BOARDING-ALIGHTING
SURVEY
SAMPLE FOR CRITICAL STRETCH

RATIONALIZATION OF
EXISTING ROUTE STRUCTURE
- BHOPAL
Network Developed

Rationalized Route Structure in to

 Trunk Services, (BRT Buses)

 Standard Bus Services (BCLL Bus)

 Feeder Services (IPT i.e. Minibus and Tata

Magic).
Traffic Assignment Public Transit Assignment
ROUTE STRUCTURE

Four Level Public Transportation System

envisaged:
 Trunk Corridors (BRT Routes)

 Standard Routes (BCLL Bus Routes)

 Complementary Routes (for Mini Buses)

 IPT Feeder Service (Tata Magic Routes)

TRUNK ROUTES (BRT ROUTES)

Trunk Routes connecting major activity centers by Bus

Rapid Transit System.

 Farthest Activity centre should be accessible within 45

min. of journey time

 Fleet comprising AC buses in addition to non AC Buses to

attract Private vehicle users.

 Staggered stopping pattern.

Truck Routes:

 1. Trunk Route 1 (Bairagrh to Habibganj Naka)

 2. Trunk Route 2 (Old Bus Stand to Samardha)

 3. Trunk Route 3 ( Bairagarh RS to Raisen Hosangabad

Bypass)
TRUNK ROUTES (TR)

TR3
TR2

TR1
TR3

TR1

Mandideep
TR2
 STANDARD ROUTES (BCLL BUS ROUTES)

Standard routes connecting major origin destination pairs of the city.

 These are replacement of Mini bus routes.
 These are rationalized BCLL Bus Routes
 Non AC Buses and few AC buses
 Route length will be within 25km and average turn around time 1.5 to 2 hrs.
 Sharing few links with Trunk routes.

The 8 standard routes are given below:

 1. Standard Route 1 (LalGhati to City Depot)
 2. Standard Route 2 (City Depot to Saket Nagar)
 3. Standard Route 3 (Gandhi Nagar to Alpana tiraha)
 4. Standard Route 4 (Karound Chauraha to City Depot)
 5. Standard Route 5 (Bus Stand to Awadhpuri Khajuri Kalan)
 6. Standard Route 6 (P&T to Rajeev Gandhi College)
 7. Standard Route 7 (Gandhi Nagar to Ratnagiri Bypass)
 8. Standard Route 8 (Bairagarh Chicli to Railway coach factory)

STANDARD ROUTES (BCLL BUS ROUTES)

SR3

SR7

SR4
SR3
SR1

SR7

SR5

SR2 SR5

SR6

SR6
SR2
SR1
SR4
STANDARD ROUTES (BCLL BUS ROUTES)

STANDARD ROUTES (BCLL BUS ROUTES)

COMPLIMENTARY ROUTES
(MINI BUS ROUTES)

These are complementary to Trunk and standard routes.

 Routes covering less dense Public transit demand corridors.

 These will be collecting traffic from neighbourhoods.

 These are mainly mini bus routes.

 Route length will be within 15km and average turn around time 1.0 to
1.5 hrs.

Complementary Routes (CR)

 1. CR 1 (Ratibad to Habibganj RS)

 2. CR 2 (Paryavas Bhawan to Bairagarh Chichli)

 3. CR 3 (Misrod to HEG Mandideep)

 4. CR 4 (Habibganj Naka E to Bagli Villege)

 5. CR 5 (Mali Khedi to Prabhat Petrol Pump)

 6. CR 6 (Damkheda to Habibganj Naka E)

 7. CR 7 (Habibganj Naka E to Rajeev Gandhi Nagar)

IPT FEEDER SERVICE

(TATA MAGIC ROUTES)

These are feeder service to all above mentioned PT

systems.

Mainly catering intra-zonal trips.

Maximum route length 6km.

Flexible schedule.

IPT Routes
 IPT 1 (Khajuri Sadak to Bairagarh BS)
 IPT2 (Khanu Gaon to Taj Mahal)
 IPT3 (Borwai to Railway Colony)
 IPT4 (Jadeeshpur to Karaund Chauraha)
 IPT5 (Govt. Girls College to Jubilee Gate)
 IPT6 (Carrier College to ISRO Gate)
 IPT7 (Raisen Hosanhgabad to Bilkhiriya)
 IPT8 (Awadhpuri Kajuri Kalan to Transport Nagar)
 IPT9 (Akash Ganga Colony to Salaia)
Complementary & IPT Routes)
IPT4 CR3 CR6
IPT4
CR4

IPT5

CR4 CR6

CR3
CR5

CR2

CR5 IPT5

CR1 CR1
IPT3
IPT2

IPT1
IPT3
CR2
IPT1 IPT2

BUS STOP LOCATION

COMPLEMENTARY ROUTES
BUS STOP LOCATION
IPT ROUTES

ROUTE RATIONALIZATION

Trunk Routes: connecting major activity centers by Bus Rapid Transit

System.

Standard routes: connecting major origin destination pairs of the city.

Complementary: These are complementary to Trunk and standard

routes.

IPT: These are feeder service to all above mentioned PT systems.

 INTEGRATED PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM

Trunk Routes (BRT)

Standard Routes (BCLL
Bus Routes)
Complementary Routes
(Mini Bus Routes)
IPT Routes (Tata Magic
Routes)

BUS DEPOTS & TERMINALS

Sr. No Location of Depots Area Capacity Scheduled Completion dates

1. Bairagarh 10 Acres 225 Buses 31-10-2010

2. Anand Nagar 3 Acres 75 Buses 30-11.2010
3. Nav Bahar Mandi 4.5 Acres 100 Buses 31-12--2010

Sr. No Location of Terminals Capacity

1. Habibganj ISBT 75 Buses
2. Nadra Bus Stand 50 Buses
3. Jawahar Chowk 50 buses
Nadira BS
4. City Depot 75 buses

Bairagarh BS
Bus Depot Bus Terminal
City Depot
Habibganj
ISBT
 BRAINSTORMING & CONSULTATIONS
FOR ROUTE DEVELOPMENT

Consultation

Several Stakeholder consultations were made to take the comments
meeting with city on draft route rationalization plan prepared by UMTC such as-
Transport & Traffic
police Official on  Public Representatives (Local Ministers , MLAs, Municipal Counselors)
21st Aug. 2009/25-26
Feb.2010.  Eminent Persons of Bhopal city.

Consultation meeting
 Private Minibus & Tata Magic operators.
on 23 July 2009 with
Public  Officials of Traffic police.
Representatives
 Officials of Transport Department.

 Officials of Distt. Administration

Consultation with
Minibus and Tata
 Officials of Public work Department .
magic operators on
25th Sep 2009 .
 Officers of Bhopal City Link Ltd.

CONSULTATION WITH PUBLIC

REPRESENTATIVES
PARTICIPATION DURING
STAKEHOLDER CONSULTATION

APPROVAL OF ROUTE
RATIONALIZATION

Approval of Mayor in Council (MIC) on 24.09.09

Approval of Main Council of Bhopal Municipal

Corporation on 22.10.09

Approval & Recommendation by Divisional Transport

Authority on 16.04.09

Based on recommendation of Divisional Transport

Authority 27 rationalized Urban Transport Routes,
Notified by State Transport Authority on 01.07.2010

Based on recommendation of Divisional Transport

Authority 03 IPT/CR & 01 SR , Total 04 rationalized
Urban Transport Routes , Notified by State Transport
Authority on 31.01.2011
NOTIFICATION OF STATE TRANSPORT
AUTHORITY

NOTIFIED PUBLIC TRANSPORT

ROUTES

Number of Route length (in

Sl No Description of routes
Routes KM)

1 Trunk Routes 3 67.64

2 Standard Routes 8 123.60

Complimentary /IPT
3 20 250.24
Routes
RESPONSE OF PRIVATE MINIBUS
OPERATORS ON IMPLEMENTATION OF
NEW ROUTE PLAN
PRESS COVERAGE OF
IMPLEMENTATION OF NEW ROUTE
PLAN
LIMITING INTERCITY BUSES TILL
REGIONAL BUS STANDS

Bhopal Attracts 500 Intercity Buses carrying about 100,000

commuters.

Preventing all 500 intercity buses coming to Nadira Bus stand

situated in the core old Bhopal area , thus affecting city bus
operations and resulting in the congestion of city roads.

As Recommended in Route Rationalization study Divisional

Transport Authority Limited these buses till regional Bus stands .

Sr. No Description Name of Bus stand

01 Buses Coming From Raisen, Sagar, Mandideep Interstate Bus Terminus

02 Buses Coming from Indore, Rajgarh Halalpur Bus stand

03 Buses Coming from Sironj, Lateri Putlighar Bus Stand
04 Buses Coming From Neelbud Jawahar Chowk Bus stand
05 Buses Coming from Vidisha Nadira Bus Stand
DIVERSION OF MINIBUSES TO
COMPLEMENTARY/IPT ROUTES

After Route rationalization permits of 277 Minibuses were

cancelled, and diverted to Complementary Routes(CR)/IPT
Routes which are earmarked for Minibuses.

Diverted Minibuses Joined Complementary/IPT Routes

which is feeder service of Trunk route & standard route.

Providing Complementary/IPT Route Permit to minibus

operator secured the livelihood of about 750 drivers &
Conductors of minibuses

Some Minibus/Tata Magic Operators shifted their vehicles

outside Bhopal city owing to less profitability with the start
of BCLL new buses.

IMPLEMENTATION OF ROUTE &

SERVICE PLAN DEVELOPED UNDER
ROUTE RATIONALIZATION STUDY

Route & service plan developed under
Route rationalization study was
successfully implemented from 01
Nov. 2010 .

130 Buses started commercial trips
on 7 Trunk Route/standard routes .
 Improvement in PT share and it’s
impact on vehicular emissions
Nearly 80,000 passenger trips were shifted from other modes of Transport to Bus
Transport
From Mini From Tata From Two
Buses Magic wheelers Total
CO emissions
from buses due
Mode Shift (%age) 60% 25% 15% 100%
to shift of
No of Passengers passengers
trips per day 48000 20000 12000 80000 from other
Number of Vehicular modes =140
Trips 1600 2500 8000 12100 tons.
Avg. Veh. Utilisation
( Km per day ) 150 120 40 - The net
Total Kms 224000 300000 320000 844000 reduction in
Reduction CO CO levels is 203
Emissions tons per day
(Tonnes )/day 158 32 153 343

STEPS TO IMPROVE CBS IN BHOPAL

Institutional strengthening and coordination with

other institutions

Fare regulation and integration

Inter-modal transfer facility

Enforcement of safety standards

Capacity building
INAUGURATION OF THE MODERN LOW FLOOR BUS
OPERATIONS

THANK YOU
BHOPAL MUNICIPAL CORPORATION