Enhancement of Navigation and People Life Style at Metros-A Cmrl Study

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International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Technology (IJMET) Volume 9, Issue 2, February 2018, pp. 679–685 Article ID: IJMET_09_02_070 Available online at http://iaeme.com/Home/issue/IJMET?Volume=9&Issue=2 ISSN Print: 0976-6340 and ISSN Online: 0976-6359

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

K. Elangovan Research Scholar, Department of Management Studies, Dr. M G R Educational and Research Institute, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India

C.B. Senthil Kumar Professor, Department of Commerce, Dr. M G R Educational and Research Institute, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India

S. Nallusamy Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dr. M G R Educational and Research Institute, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India

ABSTRACT 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. Keywords: Navigation, Life Style, Metro, Passengers, Cost

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1. INTRODUCTION The government of India had formed a committee in 2002 to prepare an integrated urban transport policy but no work has been carried out so far. The metro construction, involving a lot of new technologies in the fields of civil, electrical, signaling and telecommunication engineering was not only complex, but also quite new to the country. The basic mode of construction applied was cut and cover using diaphragm walls and sheet piles. Extensive decking was used to keep the traffic flowing smoothly over the cut, while construction work was in progress below. Great pains have been taken to ensure the safety of passengers. With regard to power supply, the metro gets priority next only to defense. However, in the rare case of a power failure, emergency lighting arrangements are in place to provide the minimum light requirements in the tunnels and at the stations. The trains are also provided with adequate fire-fighting measures and a trained fire-fighting squad is at the railway’s disposal. To prevent water from seeping into the tunnels and stations during heavy rains or flooding, the main entrances have been constructed at an elevation considerably higher than the highest recorded flood level and pumps have been installed to remove water that might enter owing to seepage. Finally, in order to prevent accidents and collisions, a continuous automatic train control system is being introduced. There is direct wireless communication facility between the driver and the control room and for security purposes all stations are provided with closed circuit television cameras.

1.1. CMRL Transportation Medium Chennai metropolitan city is one among the largest town within India covers about eight million peoples and a density of over twenty five individuals per square metric linear unit. It’s a costly regal fine arts history besides the native inheritance buildings and a reworking skyline [1-3]. Chennai city is expressed as the urban centre of the east for the reason that it is a house for most of the leading automotive industries of the country. Chennai city contains a sensible network of transport with metropolitan transport corporation and train. The metropolitan transport corporation provides the bus transport plying around 730 routes with about 3460 busses carrying over five million passengers per day [4-10]. The community train and also the mass rapid transit system network links the city’s centre with its fringe and carries roughly one million passengers per day. As per the records by the state transport authority there are a units regarding three million registered vehicles in urban centre as of 2014 of that over 2.5 million area unit of two wheelers [11-15]. Attributable to the troubled growth of personal vehicles and slim roads of town the congestion has enhanced and also the volume to ability quantitative relation of roads has improved by twelve times [16-19]. As per the survey conducted by Harvard humanitarian initiative for the detailed project report of CMRL project at 2005 the percentage of users with the different mode of transport has been identified and shown in Figure 1. The survey result indicates that nearly about 32.5 percentages of the passengers are being shaped by walk. With the growing average trip length the urban centre metro rail restricted surveys have instructed that the metro can increase the general public transport trip share from its current state to about 55 percentages through metro when the primary section turn out to be ready [20-24]. Currently about 2.4% of people are only using the train transportation. Considering the increasing fuel price and traffic congestion the shift in rider-ship is anticipated to happen in close to future provided the government takes tight steps to scale back the quantity of personal vehicles on the road and also the price to learn

http://iaeme.com/Home/journal/IJMET 680 [email protected] Enhancement of Navigation and People Life Style at Metros-A Cmrl Study magnitude relation for the commuter is higher mistreatment the general public transport. To attract a lot of passengers the mode of transport should to be systematically reliable, accessible, safe, cost effective and equipped with modern amenities keeping the longer term in mind like CCTV, wheel chairs, etc [25-29].

Figure 1 Mode of Transport in Chennai City

2. IMPLEMENTATION OF METRO PROJECT IN METRO CITIES Due to the enormous growth of population at metro cities, implementing new projects like metro by Chennai metro rail limited (CMRL) becomes inevitable. Despite implementation part of such project is enormously long, but once the project is over successfully, it provides massive growth for the city and for the people to take care of their daily life without any delay and to provide increase in economic growth of the state. Such effects implies its positive impact on many aspects like  Time constraint  Location specific  Connecting more places  Growth of the place  Increase in land value  New opportunity in job sector  Becoming key spots for identification  Economic growth of state  Connecting different navigation system.

3. LAND ACQUISITIONS FOR METRO PROJECTS Right from day one of the CMRL project, more lands are occupied and remodeled according the proposed project of metro. During the course of the project for acquiring the land, people have to undergo many problems due to change in the traffic system. The entire city navigation has to be changed according to the project and the people have to spend more time in travelling. This is considering as the major drawback of CMRL scheme. Actual time spend for travelling to different places of cities is doubled when compared to the normal time taken. This project also makes changes in the land structure and affects the nearby area and at times

http://iaeme.com/Home/journal/IJMET 681 [email protected] K. Elangovan, C.B. Senthil Kumar and S. Nallusamy provides drastic effect in the navigation system. Such impacts are inevitable during the course of metro launch and it has to be bear positively for the betterment of the state and city. Whenever the land structure in modified for upcoming projects like metro few changes has to be accepted and paves way for the project performance and its impact in navigation system. The land acquisition act used to absorb land for government projects provides adequate compensation to lands. The issue will rise whenever there is no mutual concern or reduced price in land rate. The CMRL will float tender for launching metro station in key places and the tender will remain open unless or until when the disputes if any are sorted out. The government provides formidable compensation for land owners in order to make use of land for CMRL projects. The following are the impact of land acquisition proposal for acquiring lands for CMRL projects. All the lands are not considered, only few key areas are identified and absorbed for the project with adequate compensation demanded by the land owners are as follows.  Key spots identification  Vast area coverage  Connecting key spots  Remodeling key areas  After effects of metro

4. PRESENT NAVIGATION SYSTEM VS METROPOLIS NAVIGATION The main advantage of metro system is more eco-friendly, safer and less stressful way to travel. The disadvantage is that individuals must find their way to and from stations. This disadvantage is more than made up for by not having to park and operate a cumbersome vehicle in crowded conditions. There are advantages and disadvantages with any mass transportation system to the Chennai metro.

4.1 Merits of Mass Transit System  Congestion moderation  Ease of transport to and from outlying regions  Air conditioning  Safe transport  Speed  Modernity  Accessibility  Cost effective  Low maintenance  Low infrastructure cost Congestion moderation: Chennai is upcoming metro and the connecting road to Chennai for instance is one of the busiest roads in the country, especially during monsoon season driving could be more difficult. The metro would be able to take almost three times as many people as would be able to drive in the same space, meaning a lot fewer road users. This in turn would allow the remaining road users to get into their destinations faster and allow the metro users to meet them there.

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Outlying regions: The metros route is set to be included in several outlying areas and as such will give people living in those areas opportunities in the city that would otherwise be denied them. Air conditioning: The metro train should be air conditioned to make traveling passengers even in India’s heat to have a pleasant experience. Safe transport: The trains will also have a feature like CCTV to discourage crime on the metro. Speed: There will be a train every 3.5 minutes in normal time and every 3 minutes at peak time, with the most popular journeys taking around 21 minutes. Modernity: The fact that the metro is being built in the 21st century make it smoother, safer, faster and cleaner than practically any other metro on the planet. Accessibility: The metro will be accessible to wheelchair users, which (given parking restrictions) is hardly the case with car journeys. Cost effective: A train is the best way to haul lot of people for a relatively low price. Low maintenance: Compared to bus and road motors, a train needs less maintenance and has higher availability. Low infrastructure cost: It’s cheaper to build tracks than lay a highway.

4.2. Demerits of Mass Transit System  Cost  Disruption  Loss of control  Fixed routes  Infrastructure cost  Feasibilities Cost: The cost of construction is being met by general electric and other investors, but city-dwellers may well not either have the resources or the inclination to pay for metro journeys. Disruption: Any long-term of 15 years construction project covering 148 Kms will cause significant disruption to the lives of locals during the whole course of construction. Loss of control: Drivers always have control over their journeys. People will have to adjust to allowing others to control their journey. Fixed routes: You can’t put a train on most of the cities older interior roads. Grading requirements also limit the places where you can take a train tracks. Infrastructure cost: Underground tunnels are the most expensive to build, operate and maintain. Some zones will require underground tunneling as is the case in central Bangalore. Feasibilities: Coverage of every point in city is not possible unless the city was planned for a subway. If you are adding metro to existing city, you will many older zones cut off.

5. PEOPLE PROXIMITY IN METRO ACCESSING The connection between station via metro deals with the following cases and these factors are carried out viable to balance the other factors that either supports or oppose few other factors. Out of all the factors few factors are considered to be more concern that is the backbone of this navigation system and it either directly or indirectly helps people to boost their navigation life style are as follows.

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 Distance  Nearby stations  Connected vs unconnected location  Dual connectors  Time metrics  Decision making in consensus and cooperation

6. CONCLUSION The objective of study on enhancement of navigation and people’s life style through CMRL project was carried out and based on the study the following conclusions were arrived.  CMRL project is highly inevitable and changes the people life style that moves along with the growth of navigation system.  Metro project will makes huge changes in the people’s life style and paves way for the future project.  To an extent such project also improves metros growth and increases land value and its primary objective is to improve people life style via navigation.  The metro makes the travel by smoother, safer, faster and cleaner with low prize to lot of people.  Moreover, the metro system is more eco-friendly, safer and less stressful way to travel and allow the passengers to get into their destinations faster.

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