An analysis of traffic congestion zones along Mysore road, Bangalore

R Sandhya Kumari; Ashok D Hanjagi

doi:10.53989/bu.ge.v7i2.2

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DOI: 10.53989/bu.ge.v7i2.2

Year: 2018, Volume: 7, Issue: 2, Pages: 4-6

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An analysis of traffic congestion zones along Mysore road, Bangalore

R Sandhya Kumari¹, Ashok D Hanjagi²

¹Research Scholar, Department of Geography, Bangalore University, Bengaluru
²Professor, Department of Geography, Bangalore University, Bengaluru

Received Date:14 September 2018, Accepted Date:01 December 2018

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Abstract

The term traffic congestion means the stumbling block of traffic paths by lined up vehicles. Bangalore roads are well versed with the traffic problems especially Congestion. This research paper in particular discusses the traffic congestion zones identified along the Mysore road of Bangalore. The parameters deployed to identify these zones being the merging of multiple traffic streams, bottlenecks, etc. The findings of the research show that the identified congestion zones lack proper planning, and thus suitable suggestions are being listed out to ease the traffic congestion problems namely road extension, construction of skywalk or underpass near junctions wherein existence of traffic signals results in Congestion.

Keywords: Traffic congestion; bottlenecks; skywalks; underpass

References

Traffic Congestion: Three big questions, three short answers. Available from: www.its.ucla.edu
Bangalore ‘sixth most painful’ in world for traffic congestion. 2012. Available from: www.thenational.ae
Why is Bangalore stuck in traffic jams? 2016.

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© 2018 Kumari & Hanjagi. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Published By Bangalore University, Bengaluru, Karnataka