ROAD NETWORK CONNECTIVITY ANALYSIS BASED ON GIS

Abstract

In this paper, a brief practical review is presented on the Road network in the urban areas constitutes of the
essential infrastructures for the development of the city and also to meet the demands of the people. In the present world
today some of the problems faced by the citizens are mobility, accessibility, etc. As the population is increasing day by day,
travel demand is also increasing consequently the need for the transportation facilities increases. But in the present situat ion
the facilities provided are not meeting requirements. As the business activity cen ters are increasing at a rapid rate the
functionality of the road is changing, so the existing geometrical conditions are not meeting the requirements.
As there is a rapid increase in the traffic volumes which are almost all equal to or sometimes exceeding the capacity of
the road the level of service is falling down. In the twin cities it is observed that even though geometrical conditions are
according to the standards providing all the facilities they are being mis-used by the roadside business activities
Hence there is a need to improve the existing road infrastructure .To suggest the improvements over the existing
infrastructure it is required that should be identified first and should find out which factor is leading to suggest the
improvements. By keeping these points in view an attempt is made in this thesis to identify such localities by using behavioral
model.