Traffic Management Plan Peshawar City
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URBAN POLICY UNIT PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT GOVERNMENT OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR FOUR CITIES (PESHAWAR, MARDAN, KOHAT& ABBOTTABAD) tllll " . nn r *» S FINAL REPORT (Volume – I, PESHAWAR CITY) (JANUARY 2018) slATfj 1% USAD nn V™0■ / FROM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ' 'Mi 5't^ PREPARED BY ■S1 AAA ENGINEERING CONSULTANTS (PVT) LTD ABBREVIATIONS BRT Buss Rapid Transit C & W Communication and Works Department FATA Federally Administered Tribal Areas GT Road Grand Trunk Road Km Kilometre KP Khyber Pakhtunkhwa LG Local Government Ltd Limited NC Village Council NHA National Highway Authority OD Survey Origin and Destination Survey P & D Department Planning and Development Department PDA Peshawar Development Authority PIA Pakistan International Airline PKHA Pakhtunkhwa Highway Authority Pvt Private TDM Transportation Demand Management TMP Traffic Management Plan TSM Transportation System Management UPU Urban Policy Unit VC Village Council TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION....................................................................................................... 1 1.1GENERAL ........................................................................................................... 1 1.2BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY ........................................................................... 1 1.3OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY ............................................................................... 3 1.4SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY ............................................................................ 3 1.5STUDY AREA ...................................................................................................... 4 1.6SCOPE OF WORK ............................................................................................... 4 1.7TEAM COMPOSITION ........................................................................................ 6 1.8ANTHOLOGY OF THE STUDY REPORT ................................................................. 7 2 REVIEW OF EXISTING SITUATION, ISSUES AND PROBLEMS ...................................... 8 2.1ADMINISTRATIVE SUB-DIVISIONS OF PESHAWAR .............................................. 8 2.2ROAD NETWORK OF KP ..................................................................................... 9 2.3TRANSPORTATION NETWORK OF PESHAWAR ................................................... 9 2.4DISCRIPTION OF PESHAWAR INTERCITY ROAD NETWORK ............................... 12 2.5AN OVERVIEW OF TRAFFIC ISSUES IN PESHAWAR ........................................... 15 3 DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS ........................................................................ 20 3.1STAKEHOLDER’S CONSULTATION AND DATA COLLECTION .............................. 20 3.2ZONING OF THE CITY ....................................................................................... 20 3.3SELECTION OF TRAFFIC SURVEY STATIONS ...................................................... 30 3.4TRAFFIC COUNTS SURVEY STATIONS ............................................................... 30 3.5ORIGIN & DESTINATION SURVEY STATIONS ..................................................... 37 3.6PARKING, PEDESTRIAN AND BUS TERMINAL SURVEYS..................................... 39 3.7TRAFFIC SURVEYS ............................................................................................ 43 3.8DESCRIPTION OF EACH SURVEY CONDUCTED FOR TMP .................................. 43 3.9TRAFFIC DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS ..................................................... 49 4 TRANSPORTATION DEMAND CHARACTERISTICS .................................................... 52 4.1RESULTS OF THE ORIGIN & DESTINATION (OD) SURVEY .................................. 52 4.2DISTRIBUTION OF TRAFFIC VOLUMES ............................................................. 57 4.3RESULTS OF PARKING SURVEYS ....................................................................... 67 4.4BUS TERMINAL SURVEYS ................................................................................. 71 4.5ROAD INVENTORY DETAILS ............................................................................. 71 5 CURRENT TRANSPORTATION PROBLEMS ............................................................ 138 5.1DEMAND-CAPACITY GAPS ............................................................................. 138 5.2INSUFFICIENT ROAD NETWORK ..................................................................... 147 5.3CURRENT PUBLIC TRANSPORT SITUATION..................................................... 147 5.4TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT ISSUES .................................................................... 148 5.5URBAN LAND USE ISSUES .............................................................................. 149 5.6INSUFFICIENT FACILITIES FOR NON-MOTORIZED TRAFFIC ............................. 150 5.7INSUFFICIENT INSTITUTIONAL SET-UP ........................................................... 150 6 TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT STRATEGIES ............................ 152 6.1OVERALL TRANSPORT POLICY ....................................................................... 152 6.2UP GRADATION OF THE ROAD NETWORK ..................................................... 158 6.3URBAN DEVELOPMENT SCENARIO ................................................................ 162 6.4PUBLIC TRANSPORT DEVELOPMENT.............................................................. 164 6.5TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT PLANS ..................................................................... 168 6.6STRENGTHENING OF INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY ............................................ 171 7 KEY SHORT, MEDIUM, AND LONG TERM PROPOSALS .......................................... 174 7.1SHORT-TERM MEASURES .............................................................................. 174 7.2LONG-TERM MEASURES ................................................................................ 194 7.3PROPOSED MAJOR INVETMENT PROJECTS .................................................... 200 8 IMPLEMENTATION OF STUDY’S PROPOSALS ....................................................... 202 8.1IMPLEMENTATION PLAN ............................................................................... 202 8.2KEY PLANNING PROPOSALS AND PROJECTS .................................................. 204 8.3CONCLUSION ................................................................................................ 206 9 Annexure …………………………………………………………………………………………………………..207 CHAPTER1 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 GENERAL The Urban Policy & Planning (UPU), P&D Department Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with the financial assistance of USAID initiated the development of a comprehensive Traffic Management Plans of major urban centers of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa including Peshawar, Mardan, Kohat and Abbottabad. The basic objective of the study is to identify major constraints and bottlenecks in the existing traffic management and operation system of major cities of the province and to devise improvements required to make the system more efficient, safe and reliable meeting requirements of the growing population. The Urban Policy & Planning Unit (UPU) of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa through a transparent and competitive bidding process assigned the assignment to M/s AAA Engineering Consultants (Pvt.) Ltd to develop integrated Traffic Management Plans for the above mentioned. The report has been divided into four volumes and the current volume – I pertain to the City of Peshawar. 1.2 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Peshawar is amongst the oldest living cities of Pakistan and provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Peshawar also is serving as an administrative and economic hub both for the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and erstwhile FATA. The city of Peshawar is situated in a large valley near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, close to the Pak-Afghan border. Historically known as "City on the Frontier", Peshawar's strategic location on the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia has made it one of the most culturally vibrant and liveable city in the greater sub-continent region. Peshawar is irrigated by various canals of the Kabul River and by its right tributary, the Bara River. Due to continued negligence and rapid population growth rate coupled with the influx of Afghan refugees, the City of Peshawar has witnessed unregulated and unplanned growth, with no master plan to guide the growth and channel the resources to lead to enhanced economic growth and urban management. All of this is leading towards collapse of services and emergence of slums like conditions in the urban core, particularly the walled portion is increasingly suffering from overcrowding, traffic congestion, and excessive air 1 pollution. Due to insufficient investment in municipal services along with weak intuitional framework has resulted in poor coverage and low service quality. Water and sanitation coverage rates are not only low but the quality of service is also below standards. The economic uplift of the area has led to increase in private vehicle ownership causing severe pressure on the infrastructure of the city and its condition is further deteriorating day-by- day. Lack of land use planning, and zoning regulations, non-availability of parking spaces through-out the city particularly in the urban core, non-functional signaling system, unavailability of a decent public transport system has created excessive mobility issues in the provincial capital. The current public transport system is inadequate, fragmented and consist of multitudes of buses and small Para-transit modes which