Urban Road Efficiency Assessment: Study on Labanchara Main Road of Khulna City, Bangladesh - Softcover

Debnath, Ripan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3847314432 ISBN 13: 9783847314431

Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

The history of Study Road is like it was constructed as a flood protection embankment in the ancient time of Khulna. The people of surrounding area were using that embankment as a walkway from that period. With the increment of population, in 1980’s, the top of the embankment turned into road to meet the travel demand of that locality. The history says that construction of that road was not that much planned. As a result, planning considerations like design standards, capacity, design speed, allowable traffic etc. were absent for it. After construction of Bridge across the Rupsha River, the previous ferry service has laid off which was the mean of communication among south-western part of the country with the north-western regions. Thus, a huge volume of traffic of different types are diverting on that road to access on Bridge. This additional volume is ruining the efficiency of study road. For returning the efficiency status of road with free traffic movement on it appropriate transport planning is necessary. This study was targeted to measure the traffic flow efficiency of study road as also to identify alternative means for enhancing the efficiency of traffic flow.

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About the Author

Graduated in Bachelor of Urban & Rural Planning (BURP) from Khulna University and attending M.Sc in Resource & Environmental Management (MREM) in North-South University, Bangladesh. He has been working in urban planning and development sector since 2007. He was involved in various govt. initiated planning and policy making projects in Bangladesh.

Edition details

• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3847314432
• ISBN 13: 9783847314431
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 104