A Review on Developing Shopping Trip Generation Model In Residential Area of Ahmedabad City - A Case Study of Gurukul Area

  Parikh M.S.,  Dr. H.R.Varia

Safe, economic and timely transportation of passengers and goods/freight is necessary for the development of any nation. Efficient shopping activities are important for the transportation. Due to increased population and shopping malls and retails/wholesale hub, satisfying the need for the fast supply of consumers’ products at regional and urban level becomes essential. Special shopping activities are inevitable to develop for the uninterrupted movement of public at regional level. At urban area level it is interesting to know about the movement of people. In the highly dense populated urban area, trips of shopping may be considerable to affect the passenger vehicle trips. How these trips increase with respect to increase in population? Which commodities generate more trips of supply? What is the influence of shop area on these trips? Which are the other factors significant to generate these trips? These are the questions to be answered in the context of today’s rapid urbanization, which may be helpful to develop shopping trip generation model on the urban road network. Looking at the above, this study is aimed to study about the shopping trip generation in the urban residential area. Very few researchers have tried to develop the model of trip generation of shopping activities for the urban area in India. In this study highly dense populated residential area of Gurukul of Ahmedabad city is selected. Home interview of house-hold, inventory of shopping area, shopkeepers’ personal interview, and other required data are collected. By statistical analysis significant parameters for different types of commodities are determined for the trip generation of shopping activities and different models are developed. For the selected area, average daily trips of shopping are estimated based on total population of the area, total shopping area, average distance from the wholesaler and average daily consumption of the commodities. The results indicate that it is possible to estimate daily shopping trips for the similar type of residential area.

Keywords- Transportation planning, shopping activities, Trip generation, urban level

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1602101
Page Number(s) - 574-584
Pubished in - Volume 4 | Issue 2 | May 2016
DOI (Digital Object Identifier) -   
Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Parikh M.S.,  Dr. H.R.Varia,   "A Review on Developing Shopping Trip Generation Model In Residential Area of Ahmedabad City - A Case Study of Gurukul Area", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.4, Issue 2, pp.574-584, May 2016, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1602101.pdf