PUNE TRAFFIC CONGESTION: REALITY, CAUSE AND REGULATION A CASE STUDY

Traffic Congestion or traffic jams is one of the major issues in most metropolitan cities like Pune. As we know Pune city is a well-developed and popularly known for Oxford for east for its education many students come from different cities secondly many young people come for jobs because of booming IT companies. Due to this city has become densely populated. Today the Pune's population is around 35 lakhs. Registered vehicles are 36.2 lakh which is exceeding the human population. During the peak hours i.e. 09:00 to 11:00 in the morning and 6:00 to 8:00 in the evening traffic situation gets worst and chaotic where most of the schools and colleges are located especially in Peth areas having narrow roads and lane, IT offices located in Hinjewadi and Kharadi and Industrial Zone at Bhosari but nowadays you can find anytime of the day as well. Some of the issues which create the traffic problems there are no proper planning, violation of the rules & regulation, bad construction. Because of improper management there is possibility of roads accidents and traffic congestions. The main cause of traffic jams in Pune is road side parking which should be banned and penalized. Traffic jams can be improvised on various strategies such as road broadening, improved road infrastructures, penalty to the traffic law breakers and application of Fly over, properly planned traffic junctions, no hawkers zone etc. To lessen the traffic problems there should be effective traffic management system and proper implication of traffic rules and system. ICT will make real transformation in Traffic Congest.