Vehicle Growth

 Overall – 8.4%
 Two Wheeler – 8.6%
 Car – 6.3%
 Auto – 15.64% (40,000 nos)
 Trucking entering the city daily – 5000

Traffic Composition

 60% of the traffic consist of Passenger vehicle

 Two Wheeler composition varies from 32-74%
 Good vehicles are high at location in the periphery

Peak Hour PCU growth

 Compounded Annual growth rate of traffic has risen from 6% in 1992 ti 17% in 2008
 Highest growth rate is observed at NSK Salai near Kodambakkam Railyway station location
(17%)
 Highest vehicle volume(175051) is found n Anna Salai near Saidapet Bridget
 Least vehicle – 4616 vehicle ply in Cowl Bazaar Road crossing Adyar River
 Peak hour factor ranges from 6.4% to 9.5%
 Maximum of 13% goods vehicles are plying on Pammal-Kunrathur Road

Road Inventory

 Total road Length- 1206 Kms

 Within City- 448 Kms
 Remaining of CMA – 758Kms

Carriage Type

Carriage Type Percentage (%) Kms

Two lanes undivided carriage way 63 758

Four Lanes Divided 20 426

Six lane roads (divided) 5 64

Four Lane Divided 6 69

Single Lane 6 69

Median

 Only 25% of the roads i.e 300Kms have medians

 900kms of road do not have medians

Road Marking
Not Available – 46%
Good – 16%
Fair – 30%
Poor – 8%
Signages
Available – 57%
Good – 14%
Fair – 36%
Onstreet Parking
Present – 41%
Absent – 59%
Junctions
Singnalized – 31%
Uncontrolled – 54%
Rotary – 13%
Grade separated – 02%
Speed & Delay
Commercial Area – 19 to 21 kmph
Non-commercial Area – 24 to 26kmph
Anna Salai – 27.5 kmph
Periyar – 24.5
VOC Road & Erukkancherry – 21.3 kmphs
Chennai Bypass – 60.5 kmph
Pedestrian Crossing Count
Pedistrian crossing in the road junctions in the city – 4272 to 128008
Outside the city – 3879 to 41122
Maximum pediestrain crossing observed at CTH road near Avadi Bus. GST Road near Tambaram
bus stand and on Arcot Road at Porur junction
Cordon

 60% of traffic orginates from Western part of the city

 30% originates from the Southern Part city
 10% orginates from Northern Part of the city

Good Traffic

 25% at the inner cordon locations

 4% at the Central Business Districts (CBD) cordon locations

Informal Activities

Area Category Road Length (Km) No.of Person No.of person

working per 100 m

T. Nagar High 8090 860 11

Alwarper & Medium 5430 340 6

Perambur
Pallavaram Low 1630 59 4