Published Paper Details:

In numerous cities of India including metropolis, auto-rickshaw and van are the main modes of transportation opted by the parents for the school going children. School trips can be considered as a major factor affecting road traffic as most school and office timings are similar. School trips become part of peak hour traffic. The students face the problems due to long travel time and travel distance due to improper scheduling and routing of bus. The situation now is all the nearby schools/colleges send their own contractual buses to even smallest part of the city, and the buses cover the area and locality in a route, which cause huge traffic. There is congestion on roads which result in delay of the trip of the users i.e. students. This paper reports the results of data collected from various educational institutions of Chharodi area of Ahmedabad City to examine the travel characteristic. Bus data collected from various schools in a vicinity of 2 km in Chharodi area of Ahmedabad City and tried to amalgamate their data by proposing a common bus service for these schools. This will reduce the congestion there by decreasing the travel time as well as the travel cost. Bus routes and the number of buses have been estimated based on the study. The proposed co-ordinated bus service is found to be economically viable.