A STUDY ON RE- APPROPRIATION OF INTERSECTIONS IN BHOPAL CITY

It is observed that well over half of the fatal and serious road accidents occur at intersections. The intersections in these roads are the bottleneck for them because the efficiency, safety, speed, cost of operation and capacity of the facility depends on the intersection design to a great extent. Each intersection involves through- or cross- traffic movements on one or more of the highways and may involve turning movements between these highways. Such movements can be facilitated by various geometric designs and traffic controls, depending on the type of intersection. Hence there is an urgent need for the proper designing of the various important intersections on the basis of current real time information as well as future predictions and also satisfying various codal provisions setup by IRC. The intersection is defined as encompassing all alterations (for example, turning lanes) to the otherwise typical cross sections of the intersecting streets. Intersections are a key feature of any street design in four aspects: focus of activity, conflicting movements, traffic control, and capacity. The scope of this study is limited to re- appropriation of five intersections of Bhopal city which are chosen according to the variance in their traffic and their situation in the Bhopal area, viz. Mangalwara Junction is located in old Bhopal city, where there are large number of pedestrians as well as 2- wheelers, and also heavy commercial vehicles due to transport business nearby, while on the other hand, Jyoti Talkies Intersection is situated in New Bhopal city in commercial area of M P Nagar which has a huge number of 2- wheelers as well cars and small buses of city transport. The Piplani Junction and J.K. Road Junction are having large numbers of heavy commercial vehicles like trucks and dumpers flowing through them, MANIT Intersection has large number of 2- wheelers due to its connection with MANIT college, and also it has huge traffic flowing from the Kolar road to New Market and Nehru Nagar and vice- versa.