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The increase
in private cars
clearly indicates,

people tend to
use personal
vehicles as their

predominant mode
for work trips due
to partial operation hour; however, a peak period is transport needs to be restored with
and less confident maintained between 8:30 to 11:00 all the necessary precautionary
hrs which is similar to the previous
measures to gain the public’s
towards the public year; confidence before the city reopens
transport. Further Based on our past experience, we all its activity centres.
this is clearly would like to summarise some of the • It’s an ideal time for the city’s
stakeholders to promote the non-
suggestive measures for the relevant
echoed in our O-D stakeholders and policy makers: motorized transport within the
survey, as 23% have • When the city gets restored city by developing the necessary
infrastructure
responded that due with the functioning of all the • As transport experts always say,
activities including the educational
to less confidence institutions, if necessary measures the need is for organized public
on cleanliness and are not taken by the city’s transport. This COVID-19 impact
stakeholders, it will result in the
also necessities the need for a good
partial availability choking of traffic in the Silk Board public transport, else could lead
of public transport, Junction which is a very good to further increase in travel time,
indicator of what would happen
cost and decline of the so-called
they are forced across the city too. Hence public improved pollution levels
to use the private

vehicles and IPT.

The major findings of our study for
the Silk Board Junction are as follows:
• Number of vehicles on the Silk Board
Junction increased by around 20%
in comparison with the previous
year. This may be due to partial
availability of public transport and
low confidence on cleanliness ;
• The Peak hour is shifted by one

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