International Journal of Engineering and Technology

Changing land use and lack of proper transportation planning is highly correlated with the implications of traffic congestion. Ample evidence exist that the degree of accessibility, the land use and the various opportunities available in an area, represents one of the most effective tools available for dealing with various kinds of issues related to the sustainable development of any town or city. Agartala is one of the small cities in north eastern part of India which is growing rapidly in a short span. As a result there is a need for efficient public transport infrastructure and policies which have to be adopted in order to shift the dependency on motorised private vehicles to transit facilities and other non motorised transport modes. In this study an attempt has been made to link few aspects of travel behaviour i.e. choice of motorized/non-motorized modes and trip length changes with land use, accessibility and to find the effect of travel behaviour on the same. This study quantifies the effect of accessibility of various opportunities available, in the form of cumulative and gravity indicesusing geographic information system. In both the cases it was found that accessibility to opportunities along with socioeconomic parameters; significantly affects the travel behaviour parameters.