Antara Ghosal

Thesis/DRP/Capstone Project

Rapid urbanization in India requires efficient road networks to manage traffic flow, accessibility, and urban development. Cities heavily depend on arterial roads and high-capacity routes that channel traffic flow. Arterial roads form the primary framework of urban transportation networks. Well-connected arterial networks efficiently distribute traffic, reduce congestion, and improve travel times. This map-centric study investigates the importance of arterial road connectivity within urban environments of Indian cities with a ring-radial pattern and compares them to two global cities with similar network patterns. The analysis focuses on parameters like connectivity, block characteristics in terms of block perimeter and block area, and the distances between network elements.