ENHANCEMENT OF NAVIGATION AND PEOPLE LIFE STYLE AT METROS-A CMRL STUDY

In the current scenario India is travelling swift on the urbanization path. According to census 2001, about 27% of India's total population of one billion resides in urban areas which are almost equal to the population of the entire country at the time of independence. What is more significant is that the rate of growth of this urban segment is much higher than the rate of growth of the entire population, which has fallen below 2%. By the end of this decade, about 40% of India's population may be in urban area. The burgeoning population has added to the problems of urban traffic management. At one end of the urban traffic segment is the prosperous, car owning citizenry and at other are the pedestrians, many of whom are too poor to afford even a bus ride. There is also a group between these two, which relies on private transport. The aim of this study is to analyse the existing transport system and study on the navigation and people's life style enhancement through CMRL. The basic objective of the urban transport policy is to wean away a vast segment of this intermediate group from private transport, mechanized or non-mechanized to the fold of a well-organized public transport system. From the results it was observed that, for an overpopulated and congested metropolis like Chennai, the train or metro offers the ideal solution to decongest the city. It can transport vast multitudes over long distances at peak hours at the minimum cost.