Public transport and urban mobility: Perception of people on services of public transport in Bathinda city, Punjab, India
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2014
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ISCA
Abstract
Public transport as an essential part of the socio-economic and political structure of the country plays a vital
role in development of modern society. Urbanization is one of the challenges in a developing country that needs
planning and provisioning of adequate transport system and facilities. The availability of good road networks and
affordable small private vehiclesmotivateurban and sub-urban dwellers to the use of private vehicles. Therefore,
inclination of people towards the private vehicle (two and four wheelers) has been greater as compare to public transport
(buses and three wheeler). Due to rapid growth in the private vehicle in the city the role of public transport in the urban
mobility of people has become crucial to understand. Thus, this study is an attempt to evaluate public transport and urban
mobility in Bathinda andpeople perception about quality of public transport. Apart from this the urban travel attitude and
behavior of people in making choice of public transport as their means of transportation has also been studied and
discussed.
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Public transport, Mobility, Urbanization, Quality of public transport, Response of people.
Citation
Kumar, Gaurav., Kaur Amandeep and Singh, Kiran K. (2014) Transport and urban mobility: Perception of people on services of public transport in Bathinda city, Punjab, India. International Research Journal of Social Sciences. Vol. 3(12), PP. 43470