We pro­duce here­below the guid­ing policy released regard­ing Trans­port in Delhi, under the MPD 2021. Please note that this is the vis­ion state­ment released / con­sidered in con­junc­tion with the policy doc­u­ment of Delhi mas­ter plan. The spe­cific plans would be avail­able for per­usal only along with the MPD 2021 approval, or in isol­a­tion, later.

TACKLING URBAN TRANSPORT - OPERATING PLAN FOR DELHI

Vis­ion

Delhi should be a well man­aged, clean and dynamic city serving its cit­izens as a model cap­ital city.

Mis­sion statement

To provide safe, eco-friendly, cost-effective and effi­cient modes of trans­port­a­tion through a well integ­rated multi-modal trans­port system.

The Present

The present trans­port sys­tem is char­ac­ter­ized by road traffic con­ges­tion with declin­ing ambi­ent air qual­ity accom­pan­ied by a rising trend in road acci­dents. The focus of all efforts need to be on redu­cing con­ges­tion, improv­ing air qual­ity by lower levels of vehicu­lar pol­lu­tion and enhan­cing road safety while improv­ing amen­it­ies for commuters.

The Chal­lenge

This situ­ation is likely to worsen due to increas­ing pop­u­la­tion and eco­nomic growth. The pop­u­la­tion of Delhi is expec­ted to grow from 138 lakh in 2001 to 230 lakh by year 2021. How­ever the daily trans­port demand is expec­ted to grow from 139 lakh in 2001 to 279 lakh pas­sen­ger trips by the year 2021. To cater to this demand, the mass trans­port sys­tem will need to be aug­men­ted sub­stan­tially and the road infra­struc­ture, traffic man­age­ment and asso­ci­ated amen­it­ies improved substantively.

There are sev­eral factors respons­ible for the pre­vail­ing road con­ges­tion, pol­lu­tion and lack of road safety. The basic cause, how­ever, is the imbal­ance in the modal mix of pas­sen­ger traffic car­ried by vari­ous modes

of trans­port. There is a pre­pon­der­ance of low capa­city vehicles such as two wheel­ers and cars. This is induced by increas­ing inad­equacy of mass trans­port to cater to travel demand both in quant­ity and quality.

Policy

With the object­ive of achiev­ing a bal­anced modal mix and to dis­cour­age per­son­al­ized trans­port, it is pro­posed to aug­ment mass trans­port by massive invest­ments accom­pan­ied by insti­tu­tional improve­ments. The focus, there­fore, will be on increas­ing mass trans­port options by provid­ing adequate, access­ible and afford­able modes like buses, mini-buses, elec­tric trol­ley buses com­ple­men­ted by a net­work of a rail based mass rapid transit sys­tems like metro and com­muter rail. Para transit modes like autos and taxis are envis­aged to provide feeder ser­vices in des­ig­nated areas cater­ing to work and leis­ure trips. Non-motorized trans­port like bicycles and cycle rick­shaws will be accommodated.

Mass Trans­port

In order to strike the appro­pri­ate modal bal­ance, an extens­ive mass trans­port sys­tem includ­ing a metro, com­muter rail and buses will be required. Con­sid­er­ing this, 245 km. of a metro sys­tem net­work to cater to demand upto 2021 is being planned. Of this in Phase-I, 39 km is under imple­ment­a­tion and 21 km. is expec­ted to be com­pleted by 2005. In addi­tion, Phase I of the com­muter rail sys­tem called the Integ­rated Rail and Bus transit (IRBT) along three exist­ing rail­way lines is also being taken up in part­ner­ship with neigh­bour­ing State Gov­ern­ments of Hary­ana and Uttar Pra­desh and the Gov­ern­ment of India.

Even after a fully developed rail based Mass Rapid Transit Sys­tem has come into exist­ence, the bus sys­tem will con­tinue to play the role of the main mass trans­port sys­tem pro­vider. The bus sys­tem is pro­posed to be aug­men­ted to 10000 CNG buses within a year on Stage Car­riage to be sup­ple­men­ted with about 4000 CNG buses on chartered and premium ser­vices. Premium bus ser­vices will be intro­duced on selec­ted routes. High Capa­city Bus Sys­tems on selec­ted cor­ridors for 100 km is planned. In addi­tion, on 32 km of selec­ted cor­ridors, Elec­tric Trol­ley Buses will also be intro­duced in order to reduce con­ges­tion and pol­lu­tion. A Light Rail Transit for the walled city is being con­sidered. In order to improve the bus sys­tem ded­ic­ated busways/lanes are being planned on des­ig­nated road corridors.

Devel­op­ment of bus ter­min­als is very import­ant for effi­cient oper­a­tion of any bus sys­tem. Three dir­ec­tional Inter State Bus Ter­min­als (ISBTs) have already been provided and two more are to be taken up at Dwarka & Narela. The ser­vices at the exist­ing ISBTs at Kashmere Gate, Anand Vihar and Sarai Kale Khan will be fur­ther improved.

Inter­me­di­ate Pub­lic Trans­port Sys­tem (IPT)

IPT modes will con­tinue to play an import­ant role even in the future as feeder ser­vices to the main mass trans­port sys­tem and provid­ing access­ible move­ment in pre-designated areas. There­fore, steps are being taken to strengthen this sys­tem by proper reg­u­la­tion and discipline.

Con­trolling Vehicu­lar Pollution

A num­ber of addi­tional meas­ures will be taken to reduce vehicu­lar pol­lu­tion by provid­ing CNG buses, strength­en­ing the Pol­lu­tion Under Con­trol (PUC) sys­tem, intro­duc­tion of strict Inspec­tion and Cer­ti­fic­a­tion Sys­tems and pro­mo­tion of advanced tech­no­lo­gies. Spe­cial focus will be on safety cer­ti­fic­a­tion and strin­gent inspec­tion of all trans­port vehicles. A Safety Coun­cil to set stand­ards for vehicle safety and fit­ness is being set up shortly.

Road Infra­struc­ture

A num­ber of fly­overs, bridges and ped­es­trian sub­ways are under con­struc­tion and many more are being con­tem­plated. In addi­tion, exist­ing roads are being widened and new roads con­struc­ted. The peri­pheral express­way and NH2 bypass are being taken up to siphon off inter-city traffic passing through Delhi.

Sev­eral low cost and quickly imple­ment­able trans­port sys­tem man­age­ment (TSM) meas­ures are being given a lot of import­ance in order to improve traffic flow. TSM plans are being pre­pared for vari­ous cor­ridors and will be taken up for implementation.

Integ­ra­tion issues

Integ­ra­tion of all modes of trans­port is neces­sary to achieve the poten­tial of each mode. Feeder sys­tems to metro and com­muter rail will be provided. Facil­it­ies for park­ing of per­son­al­ised modes, autos and taxis are pro­posed at all sta­tions. Time table and fare integ­ra­tion for metro rail and buses are also contemplated.

Fin­an­cing

Plan Out­lays — Tenth Five Year Plan (2002−07)

A large invest­ment is required to fin­ance the pro­posed urban trans­port sys­tem. For this, budget­ary pro­vi­sions have been enhanced in the Tenth Plan (2002−07) of the Gov­ern­ment of NCT of Delhi. The fin­an­cial out­lays approved in the Tenth Plan for the trans­port sec­tor are:

(A) Trans­port Department

S.No.	Items	(Rs in lakhs)
01.	Mass Rapid Transit System	144141
02.	Delhi Trans­port Corporation	61800
03.	Inter­state Bus Terminals	6000
04.	Other Schemes	81950
	Sub-total (A)	293891

(B) Other Agencies

S.No.	Items	(Rs. In lakhs)
01.	Roads and Bridges (PWD)	187280
02.	Trans Yamuna Area Devel­op­ment Board	1500
03.	MCD	60000
04.	NDMC	2000
	Sub-total (B)	250780
	Grand Total (A) + (B)	544671

Insti­tu­tional Meas­ures The fin­an­cial invest­ments are pro­posed to be but­tressed by insti­tu­tional meas­ures to ensure effect­ive and effi­cient func­tion­ing of the trans­port sys­tem in an integ­rated manner.

For this, it is pro­posed to set up an Integ­rated Met­ro­pol­itan Trans­port Author­ity (IMTA) which will look after reg­u­lat­ory issues like fares and tar­iffs as well as pro­vi­sion­ing and com­mon functions/services for metro, rail and bus sys­tems. Until IMTA is formed a Delhi Trans­port Plan­ning Group (DTPG) may be set up under the chair­man­ship of the Chief Min­is­ter. To provide tech­nical and logistic sup­port to the DTPG and then IMTA, a Traffic Engin­eer­ing and Trans­port plan­ning cell will be set up which will func­tion under the aegis of the Trans­port Depart­ment but will draw expert­ise from PWD, MCD, NDMC and the Traffic Police to ensure coördin­a­tion and implementation.

Amen­it­ies for Commuters

In order to make the trans­port sys­tem user-friendly, many amen­it­ies for com­muters are being intro­duced. Some of these are Help Line for bus, taxi and auto rick­shaw pas­sen­gers, a Uni­fied Bus Time Table, route guide maps / folders, dir­ect­ory of chartered bus ser­vices, fare charts from point to point, more pre­paid taxi/auto rick­shaw booths and improved bus ter­minal designs and enhanced ser­vice stand­ards at Inter State Bus Ter­min­als (ISBTs) etc. Wherever feas­ible the needs of spe­cial groups like the phys­ic­ally chal­lenged and senior cit­izens as well as eco­nom­ic­ally weaker sec­tions will be accom­mod­ated by encour­aging user friendly tech­no­lo­gies for access and seat­ing as well as con­ces­sional passes on mass trans­port. Train­ing pro­grammes are also being planned for drivers of buses, mini buses and autos to make them respons­ive and help­ful to commuters.

Time Frame

The time frame for the action plan to be imple­men­ted is out­lined in Annexure.

Annex­ure

ACTION PLAN

TASKS FOR TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT, GNCTD

S. No.	TASK	Respons­ible Branch
	Within 6 months
1	Com­plaint Redressal Sys­tem for Bus , Autos and Taxis & IPT Operations	Oper­a­tions / Enforcement
2.	Ration­al­iz­a­tion of Bus routes	STA
3	Uni­fied Time Table for Bus System	STA
4	Pub­lic­a­tion of user friendly bus route time tables and bus route networks	STA
5	Pub­lic­a­tion of cer­ti­fied fares between vari­ous points	STA
6	Install­a­tion of Stand­ard­ised fare meters for auto rick­shaws and taxis	Autorick­shaws Unit, Bur­ari and Con­trol­ler of W&M
7	Increase in num­ber of Pre-paid booths for autos & taxis	Autorick­shaw Unit
8	Com­pre­hens­ive Train­ing to Drivers & Con­duct­ors of School Buses	Oper­a­tions
9	Improve­ment in Design of School Buses	Vehicles Inspec­tion Unit
10	Strin­gent test­ing mech­an­isms for check­ing road wor­thi­ness of school buses	Vehicles Inspec­tion Unit
11	Pub­lic aware­ness pro­grammes on road safety & school buses	Planning/ Safe School bus Cell
12	Author­ising driv­ing train­ing schools to issue Learner’s licenses	Oper­a­tions
13	Strin­gent test­ing mech­an­isms for driv­ing skills & obtain­ing Driv­ing Licences	Oper­a­tions
14	Upgrad­a­tion of private driv­ing train­ing schools with well struc­tured courses	Oper­a­tions
15	Pub­lic aware­ness pro­grammes on Vehicu­lar Pol­lu­tion — Causes, Effects & Solutions	Pol­lu­tion Con­trol Division
16	Bus pri­or­ity lanes for selec­ted corridors	STA/DTC
17	Intro­duc­tion of premium bus services	STA/DTC
18	New Col­our Scheme for CNG buses	STA
19	Mod­ern­iz­a­tion of bus-Q-Shelters	STA/DTC
20	Restruc­tur­ing DTC — final­iz­a­tion of proposals	STA/Sectt.
21	Private sec­tor par­ti­cip­a­tion in city bus ser­vices — Invit­ing Expres­sions of Interest	STA
22	Time table integ­ra­tion of Metro and buses	MRTS/STA
23	Pre­par­at­ory works for Phase II of Metro includ­ing com­mis­sion­ing Detailed Pro­ject Report.	MRTS
24	Train­ing CNG filling per­son­nel / Trans­port Depart­ment officials	Pol­lu­tion Con­trol Divi­sion (PCD)
25	Odour­ing of CNG & Install­a­tion of gas leak detectors	Pol­lu­tion Con­trol Division
26	CNG cyl­in­der recer­ti­fic­a­tion facility	Pol­lu­tion Con­trol Division
27	Set­ting up Safety Coun­cil of Vehicle fit­ness and safety	Sec­ret­ary (Tpt)
28	Upgrad­a­tion of I&M Centre, Burari	VIU/PCD
29	Mod­ern­iz­a­tion of Zonal Offices	Oper­a­tions
30	Cit­izens Charter — final­iz­a­tion and implementation	Sec­ret­ary (Tpt)
31	Set­ting up of Delhi Trans­port Plan­ning Group (DTPG)	Sec­ret­ariat Branch
32	Set­ting up of Integ­rated Met­ro­pol­itan Trans­port Author­ity (IMTA)	Sec­ret­ariat Branch
33	Exam­ine the legis­lat­ive pro­posal by GNCTD for Metro Rail Oper­a­tions and Maintenance	Sec­ret­ary (MRTS)
	6 – 12 months
34	High Capa­city Bus Sys­tem for five selec­ted corridors	STA
35	Intro­duc­tion of Elec­tric Trol­ley Buses on two selec­ted corridors	STA
36	Imple­ment­a­tion of Bus Lanes/Bus Only Roads — final­iz­a­tion of proposals	STA
37	Enforce­ment to dis­cour­age use of private cars as taxi	Operation/Enf.
38	Bus Ter­minal devel­op­ment (both ISBT and city)	GM (ISBT)
39	Com­pu­ter­isa­tion & Mod­ern­isa­tion of PUC centers	PCD
40	Mod­ern­isa­tion of Pol­lu­tion Mon­it­or­ing Equip­ment and check­ing System	PCD
41	Set­ting up I & M Centres at Bawana by DTC	STA/VIU
42	LRT/Tram sys­tem for Walled city — feas­ib­il­ity study	Planning/Sectt
	1 – 5 years
43	Legis­la­tion for IMTA	Sec­ret­ariat
44	Restrict areas of oper­a­tion of autos on feeder routes	AR Unit
45	Imple­ment­a­tion of High Capa­city Bus Sys­tem Cor­ridors (100 Km)	STA
46	Imple­ment­a­tion of ETB on two cor­ridors (32 Km)	STA
47	Imple­ment­a­tion of LRT/Tram sys­tem for walled city	Planning/Sectt
48	Feeder Bus Route Net­work for Metro– Phase-I	STA/MRTS
49	Com­ple­tion of Ph-1 Metro net­work ( 60 Km)	MRTS/DMRC
50	Com­ple­tion of Ph-1 IRBT / Com­muter rail cum Bus net­work ( Km)	MRTS
51	Com­ple­tion of pre­par­at­ory works for Phase-II Metro Net­work ( km)	MRTS
52	Imple­ment­a­tion of restruc­tur­ing plan for DTC	STA/DTC
53	Imple­ment­a­tion of private sec­tor par­ti­cip­a­tion in city buses	STA
54	Com­ple­tion of Dwarka and Narela ISBT	GM, ISBT
55	Com­mis­sion­ing of Metro Phase-II on approval of part­ner Gov­ern­ments i.e. GOI & GNCTD.	MRTS

Annex­ure

ACTION PLAN

INTER — AGENCY COORDINATION

Sl. No.		TASK	RESPONSIBLE AGENCY (IES)
	Within 6 months
1	Park­ing facil­it­ies at MCD, NDMC, DVB, DJB Offices		MCD/NDMC/Respective Offices
2	Park­ing facil­it­ies for Buses, Autos, Taxis and Slow Modes		MCD/NDMC/DDA
3	Plan­ning for multi-storeyed park­ing facilities		MCD/NDMC
4	Ration­al­isa­tion of park­ing charges w.r.t park­ing dur­a­tion, area, mode		MCD/NDMC/DDA
5	Removal of encroach­ment from foot­paths & provide more footpaths		MCD/NDMC/PWD
6	Improve­ment in Traffic Sig­nal­ing Systems		MCD/NDMC/ Traffic Police/PWD
7	Enforce­ment of Road discipline		Traffic Police/ Trans­port Deptt.
8	Edu­ca­tion and Aware­ness of Road Safety		Traffic Police
9	Increase in num­ber of Pre-paid booths for autos & taxis		Traffic Police
10	Strength­en­ing of Com­plaint Redressal system		Traffic Police
11	Road widen­ing (a con­tinu­ous exercise		MCD/NDMC/PWD
12	Cor­rec­tion of sig­nages at fly­overs and junc­tions and Rec­ti­fic­a­tion of defects in fly­over design		PWD/MCD/NDMC/DTTDC/DDA/CRRI
	6 – 12 months
13	Imple­ment­a­tion of Bus Lanes/Bus Only Roads		MCD/NDMC/PWD/ Traffic Police
14	Split­ting of bus stops		MCD / NDMC/PWD
15	Con­struc­tion of Multi-Storeyed park­ing facilities		MCD / NDMC
16	Con­struc­tion of for Cycle tracks on two selec­ted corridors		MCD / NDMC/PWD
17	Con­struc­tion of flyovers/bridges/ ped­es­trian subways		MCD / NDMC/PWD
18	Road widen­ing and strength­en­ing (a con­tinu­ous exercise)		MCD/NDMC/PWD
19	Imple­ment­a­tion of TSM plans on selec­ted corridors		PWD/Traffic Police
20	Man­age­ment of Auto/Taxi Park­ing under Bhagidari		RWAs/MTAs
21	Set­ting up of Traffic Man­age­ment Authority		Police/Transport Deptt.
22	Cre­ation of Traffic Engin­eer­ing Cell		Traffic Police
23	Com­ple­tion of multi-storeyed park­ing facilities		MCD/NDMC
24	Com­ple­tion of Cycle tracks on selec­ted corridors		MCD/NDMC/PWD
25	Imple­ment­a­tion of TSM meas­ures for selec­ted corridors		PWD/Traffic Police

SALIENT FEATURES OF THE REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT

The sali­ent fea­tures of the report are sum­mar­ized in Chapter V : The Pro­posed Road Map.

The main recom­mend­a­tions are:

a. Pub­lic Trans­port Policy

Inter-se pri­or­ity should be accor­ded in des­cend­ing order to:

• Mass trans­port,
• Non-Motorized Trans­port (NMT) namely bicycles, cycle-rickshaws, ped­es­tri­ans etc.,
• Inter­me­di­ate Pub­lic Trans­port (IPT) namely auto-rickshaws, taxi etc., and
• Per­son­al­ized motor transport

b. Pri­or­ity bus lanes be imme­di­ate imple­men­ted on five iden­ti­fied corridors.

High Pri­or­ity Cor­ridors for Bus Pri­or­ity Schemes

No.	Cor­ridor	Length (Kms.)
1.	Nan­gloi — Peer­agarhi — Pun­j­abi Bagh — Anand Parbhat — Rani Jhansi Road — Link Road — Gole Mar­ket — Shiv­aji Terminal	20
2.	Aza­d­pur — Wazir­pur Indus­trial Arrea — Pun­j­abi Bagh — Raja Garden — Naraina Vihar — Dhaula Kuan — Moti Bagh — South Extn. — Mool Chand — LSR — Nehru Place	32
3.	Jahangir­puri — Aza­d­pur — Rana Pra­tap Bagh — Malka Ganj — St.Stephen’s Hos­pital — Mori Gate — Old Delhi Rly. Stn.	12
4.	Dr. Ambedkar Nagar — Masjid Moth — Mool Chand — Sun­der Nagar — Appu Ghar — Delhi Gate — Lal Qilla — ISBT	19
5.	Anand Vihar — Karkar­duma Chowk — Swasthya Vihar –Lak­shmi Nagar — ITO — Bara Khamba Road — Shiv­aji Terminal.	15
		98=100 km.

These five pri­or­ity cor­ridors have been selec­ted out of four­teen iden­ti­fied cor­ridors where such schemes could be intro­duced in a phased manner.

• Fin­an­cial implic­a­tions : Rs.250 crores
• Plan­ning period : 6 to 9 months
• Final Imple­ment­a­tion period : Within 1 year

c. Elec­tric Trol­ley Bus (ETB) should be imple­men­ted on fol­low­ing corridors:

	Cor­ridor	Length (Km.)
1.	Hari Nagar Clock Tower, Lajwanti Garden — Kirby Place, Dhaula Kuan — SP Marg — Wil­ing­don Cresent-Talkotora Sta­dium — Cent­ral Sectt.	16
2.	Badarpur — Sar­ita Vihar — Ashram Chowk — Humayun’s Tomb — Sun­der Nagar — Prag­ati Maidan	16

• Fin­an­cial Implic­a­tions : Rs.160 Crores*
• Plan­ning Period : 1 year
• Final Imple­ment­a­tion period : Within 2 years

* An ETB has a car­ry­ing capa­city of about hun­dred pas­sen­gers and an aver­age load factor of about 55%.

** The total cost of the pro­ject will include elec­trical power sup­ply, a col­lec­tion sys­tem and main­ten­ance depot, modi­fic­a­tion to road sur­face, exist­ing elec­tri­city poles and other util­ity ser­vices and sig­nals at inter­sec­tions. The Trol­ley Bus itself costs approx­im­ately Rs.60 – 70 lakhs at April 2002 prices.

*** The total cap­ital cost of a mod­ern ETB includ­ing modi­fic­a­tions to fixed infra­struc­ture for ded­ic­ated bus ways, has been tent­at­ively estim­ated at Rs. 5 Crores per route km. O&M cost per pas­sen­ger, how­ever, is much lower than metro (and even a reg­u­lar bus) and works out to 69 paise per pas­sen­ger km.

d. LRT with a nar­row vehicle of say 1.8 to 2.0 m width appears to be an appro­pri­ate choice of mass transit for the nar­row roads in the walled city of Delhi (Chandni Chowk — Khari Baoli — Shraddha Nand Bazaar — Delhi Gate — Chawri Bazaar area). A tram sys­tem (an earlier ver­sion of LRT) was oper­at­ing in this area some time back.

If taken up, a feas­ib­il­ity study for imple­ment­a­tion of LRT for the walled city will be neces­sary. After pre­par­at­ory works have been com­pleted and feas­ib­il­ity ascer­tained, the actual imple­ment­a­tion is likely to take two years.

• Fin­an­cial implic­a­tions : Rs.150 Crores
• Plan­ning period : 1 year (after estab­lish­ing feasibility)
• Imple­ment­a­tion period : 2 years

e. An integ­rated Met­ro­pol­itan Trans­port Author­ity (IMTA)should be set up not only for set­ting fares and tar­iffs but also to provide pro­vi­sion­ing and com­mon ser­vices for bus, metro and com­muter rail as well as IPT modes. There should be one author­ity for all modes of transport.

f. Pending the set­ting up of IMTA, a Delhi Trans­port Plan­ning Group (DTPG) should be con­sti­tuted. The DTPG may be sup­por­ted by a tech­nical cell of qual­i­fied and trained pro­fes­sion­als from all con­cerned departments.