OPTIMIZED SOLUTIONS FOR RESOLVING TRAFFIC CONGESTION AT UNIVERSITY CIRCLE

In today’s world, due to globalization, transportation becomes one of the essential need of human being .In developing countries like India, where the population is going on increasing which leads to the serious traffic issues .In city, Pune which would be the metro-city in next some days, is facing a huge traffic problems Hence it is necessary to do a traffic study of the city to provide designed, planned and cost effective road transportation system. In this paper, traffic data is counted and analysis of data is done with the help of software PTV VISTRO for signal optimization. Also, the other improvements are suggested. The main factors influencing the traffic problem are type of traffic, seasons, population accumulated in the area, direction of flow, parking, foot path availability, the width of the road, connectivity to the different locations and value of area etc. The aim of this paper is to identify the problems creating the traffic and providing solutions for effective transportation through the city.