SPATIAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TRANSPORT NETWORK AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES IN THE SOUTHERN COAST OF CITY B.Mahalingam, Research Scholar, Department of Geography, Presidency College, Chennai – 600 005. J.Uma, Head, Department of Geography, Presidency College, Chennai – 600 005. Email:[email protected]

ABSTRACT The study has been used primary and secondary data to find out the spatial relationship between transport network and development activities using Geographical Information System. The transport network system has been created using topographical map and IRS LISS III imagery. The locations of development activities have been collected through GPS survey. To find out the relationship between transport network and development activities the overlay analysis has been done using GIS software; the result shows that there is strong influence of transport network in the development activities in the selected region.

Keywords: transport networks, Development Activity, Southern cost. 1. INTRODUCTION

Transport improvements have potential impacts on the economy in excess of the benefits to individual firms. The extent of these spillover benefits is determined by the structure of the economy. Where competition is imperfect and economies of scale exist, spillovers will be high. While transport improvements have the potential to yield significant economic benefits, the regional distribution of these benefits is dependent on the level of transport costs. Unless the transport costs are very high, peripheral regions will stand to benefit to a greater extent than core regions from transport improvements.

87 2. STUDY AREA

The current study has been conducted in the coastal southern part of Chennai city to find out the spatial relationship between transport network and development activity in the region. The study area is well connected through road network; the total length of road network in study area is 1836.6 Km, in this 326 Km are major roads while rest of others are minor. The notable major roads are East Coast Road (ECR was originally commissioned in the year 1998, by joining up and improving small village roads that connected fishing hamlets along the sea coast of at a cost of 1200mn partly funded by the Asian Development Bank) starts at Thiruvanmiyur and ends in it is a two lane highway and Old Mahabalipuram Road (Rajiv Gandhi Salai) or IT Corridor is another major road starts at Adyar and continuing south till Mahabalipuram, ultimately merging with the East Coast Road. This is popularly called as the 'IT Corridor' because this stretch has become home to many IT/ITES companies. SH 121 ( - Mambakkam - Kelambakkam Road), SH 115 (Cheyyur - Vandawasi - Polur Road), SH 48 ( - Medavakkam - Velachery Road), NH 45 (Chennai - Tambaram - - Madurantakam - - - Ulundurpettai - Trichy - - – Theni), SH 58 (Sadras - Chengalpattu - Kancheepuram - Arakonam - Thiruthani Road), SH 117 (Madurantakam - Vennangupet Road) and SH 109 or Pallikaranai 100 feet road ( - Thuraipakkam Road) are the important roads in the study region.

88 3. MATERIALS AND METHOD This study is based on both the primary and secondary data which collected from various sources. The topographical sheet and satellite imagery LISS III has been used to create the road network map while GPS survey has been done to located the important development activities such as industries, institution, educational centers, recreational centers and restaurants. The information about the centers has been collected through questionnaire survey from the concern person. The ArcGIS 9.3 software has been used create the vector layers of road network and same software used for overlay analysis to find out the spatial relationship between transport network and development activity of a region.

4. RESULT AND DISCUSSION To find out the spatial relationship between transport network and development activity of the region the below map 2 has been created using GIS software, it shows the minor roads, major roads, East Coastal Road and Old Mahabalipuram Road in study area including overlay map of entire network system. The collected GPS points have been converted in to GIS environment and it has been used for overlay analysis with the transport network. The overlay analysis shows that most of the development activities are along the transport network then other places, which shows there is strong influence of transport network in the development of this region.

89 5. CONCLUSION The study has been conducted to find out the spatial relationship between transport network and development activities using Geographical Information System retrieved that,the transport network plays the major role in the development of this area and the major development activities are along the East Coast Road and Old Mahabalipuram Road.

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