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Demographic profile- population growth, employment, vehicle ownership, travel characteristics Identification of major corridors Division of corridors into homogeneous sections Link volume survey on homogeneous sections Bus stop based passenger survey Bus route and frequency survey

No. of passengers boarding / alighting Travel characteristics like origin, destination, trip purpose, frequency, travel cost and willingness to use LRTS / MRTS etc. Bus route details. Occupancy rate of buses. Name Meenchanda No. of Households 1430 Total 9199 Male 4542 Female 4657

Inter-city Daily Traffic Volume According to Type of Vehicle, 2008

Sl. No. 1 Survey station N H - 17 at Ramanattukara Car / Jeep 4797 Sc/Mc 4646 Auto (P) 1881 Moffusil Bus 1901 City bus 27 Truck 2172 Mini truck 919 MAT 322 Auto (G) 703 Others 14 Total 17978

Distribution of vehicles according to survey station and direction

Survey station N H -17 at Ramanattukara Direction IN OUT Total Car / jeep 2227 2570 4797 Sc/Mc 2318 2328 4646 Auto (P) 954 927 1881 Moffusil bus 935 966 1901 City bus 12 15 27 MiniBus 292 304 596 Truck 949 1223 2172 Mini truck 400 519 919 MAT 168 154 322 Auto (G) 287 416 703 Others 7 7 14 Total 8549 9429 17978

Considerable variation in traffic volume of vehicles is observed during peak hours among the 37 sections surveyed. Peak hour volume varied from a high value of 3,793 vehicles in Eranhipalam-Mavoor road Junction section to a low value of 247 vehicles in MankavuMeenchanda section.

Peak Hour Traffic Volume in Selected Stretches on Major Roads in Kozhikode City, 2008
Sl. No. car, Scooter/M. Auto van BUS cycle (P) Jeep Corridor - I : NH-17 - Air port - Kulathur - Ramanattukkara - Town Hall Elathur Vengalam Cheruvannoor(Areekkad )9.00Meenchanda 10.00(M) 183 598 142 124 6 Meenchanda 11.00Cheruvannoor(Areekkad) 12.00(M) 141 961 240 58 09.00Meenchanda - Vattakkinar 10.00(M) 274 594 55 34 09.00Vattakkinar - Meenchanda 10.00(M) 224 701 209 59 7 05.15Mankavu - Meenchanda 06.15(E) 206 454 92 69 05.30Meenchanda - Mankavu 06.30(E) 193 422 79 58 Name of section Peak Hour Lorry Mini Truck MAT Auto (G) Others Total

11 11 30 42 9 3

0 0 30 30 22 26

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 38 38 13 9

0 0 0 0 0 0

1058 1411 1055 1303 865 790

Number of Daily Passengers Boarding and Alighting Along With Number of Buses and Average Occupancy
Sl. No. Name of road/ bus stop Direction Peak hour number of passengers Boarding Alighting 1099 877 765 1093 1318 804 538 1483 844 666 No. of buses Average occupancy

IV. Mini bye pass 1 2 Mankavu Meenchanda 1 1 2 1 2 255 267 313 283 291 38 64 29 33 32

At Meenchanda total road width is only 12.5 m.

Sl. No. Name of Link Chainage 6.800 Road width (m) Paved width 13.00 L.H Shoulder 2.5 R.H Shoulder 2.0 Land width 18.0 Paved Good Surface Condition (Good, Fair, Poor) L.H. Shoulder F R.H. Shoulder F

Drain Covered L

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22 23 24 25 26

Cheruvannur - Mini Byepass (Length 4.200 km) -Do-Do-DoMini Byepass Mini Byepass - Vattakinar (Length 0.600 km)

7.800 8.200 9.300 9.700 10.300

13.00 13.00 13 8.50 8.0

3 2.0 2 2 1.5

4 2.5 2 2 1.5

27.00 25.00 17.5 12.5 11.00

Good God Good Good Good

F P F P P

F P F P P

Peak Hour Speed and Delay Characteristics along Major Road Stretches in Kozhikode city
Cheruvannur Jn. to Mini bye Pass Jn. Mini bye Pass Jn. to Vattakinar Jn. Meenchanda to Mankavu Vattakinar to Beypore Town 4.300 0.600 2.600 5.600 360 120 420 660 360 117 389 620 0 3 31 40 43 18 22 31 43 18 24 33 Parking Slow vehicl, Slow vehicle & Road Condition Poor Bus stop & Slow vehicle

Estimated Peak Hour Directional Flow of Passengers on Corridor 1:

6 7 Cheruvannur - Meenchanda Meenchanda - Vattakinar UP DOWN UP DOWN UP DOWN UP DOWN 714 550 1069 874 714 550 753 803 897 1442 891 1052 897 1442 633 681 341 576 132 502 341 576 190 221 4588 3132 1666 2714 4588 3132 2668 2484 6540 5700 3758 5142 6540 5700 4244 4189

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Cheruvannur - Meenchanda Meenchanda-Mankavu