Viability of high speed rail alternatives in southern India

Regional inter-urban travel is a growing aspect of people movement in Asia. In southern India, there are more than ten cities with population in excess of three million people including the metropolitan regions of Hyderabad, Chennai and Bengaluru. Regional travel is currently via car, bus, air or the existing rail network. The intention of this paper is to examine the viability and the attractiveness of an improved higher speed rail system for southern India. The government of India wanted to quickly understand the viability of higher speed rail and the likely diversion of regional travel to this new mode from the existing modes. In southern India, there were little available data on the movement of people across the region. In response, a series of surveys were conducted at the major regional centres likely to be connected via an improved higher speed rail service. A total of 7,000 interviews were undertaken across southern India focusing on existing travel via air, car, bus and rail. The intention was two-fold to obtain the existing modal travel patterns and to secondly via a stated preference survey to estimate the likely diversion to high speed rail from the existing mode of travel. From this investigation, the modal diversion was estimated of future travellers via the calibration of hierarchical logit model segmented by purpose and income class. Thus there was a forecast of the estimation of attracted passengers to the new mode of travel. The results enabled the optimization of the routes and station configuration along the two corridors under consideration from Hyderabad to Chennai and Chennai to Thiruvanthapuram. This paper focuses on the later corridor.

• Record URL:
  http://atrf.info/papers/2016/index.aspx
• Authors:
  • Johnstone, L
  • Ratanavaraha, V
• Conference:
  • Australasian Transport Research Forum (ATRF), 38th, 2016, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Publication Date: 2016-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 16p
• Monograph Title: 38th Australasian Transport Research Forum (ATRF 2016), Melbourne, 16th - 18th November 2016

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: High speed vehicles; Modal shift; Modal split; Mode choice; Public transit; Railroad transportation; Travel demand
• Geographic Terms: India
• ATRI Terms: High speed; Modal choice; Modal shift; Public transport; Rail transport; Travel demand
• ITRD Terms: 285: Demand (econ); 1163: High speed; 1063: Railway network
• Subject Areas: Public Transportation; Railroads; Vehicles and Equipment; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01627392
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Files: ITRD, ATRI
• Created Date: Feb 27 2017 10:04AM