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Sustainable Urban Freight Transport: A Global Perspective

Case Study of Delhi Dr Sanjay Gupta School of Planning and Architecture Delhi

Dr Sanjay Gupta, SPA 1

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Importance of Urban Freight

• Urban freight is important for social and economic

viability of urban areas.

• Goods transport account for 10 to 15 percent of vehicle

equivalent km travelled in urban areas, 2 to 5 percent of employed urban workforce and 3 to 5 percent of urban land use (UN Habitat 2013 report)

• Goods vehicle & operating costs contribute 5% to 8% to

total metropolitan city’s tax revenue (Delhi)

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Goods Movement in Indian Cities

5,000 10,000 15,000 20,000 25,000 30,000 35,000 40,000 45,000 Ahmedabad Nagpur Indore Vizag Agra Asanol Nashik Bhubaneshwar Ajmer Yamunanagar Adoni Darjeeling Samastipur Chickballapur Goods in tons Cities

Estimated Daily Goods Flow in Selected Cities of India (in tons)

Intercity Inbound Intercity Outbound Intracity flow

Dr Sanjay Gupta, SPA 3

Source : Data from CRRI Study (1998); Own figure CC0

Goods traffic intensities generally tends to decrease with decrease in city size.

Typical Freight Handling Operations in Indian Cities (1)

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Typical Freight Handling Operations in Indian Cities (2)

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Case Study of Delhi

• Area : 1500 sq km

approx.

• Population : 16.3 mill.
• Vehicles : 7.5 mill.
• About 1.5 mill.

registered goods vehicles out of which 38% vehicles have local permit and rest has inter-state permit

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Freight Traffic Growth Trends in Delhi

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Traffic Type/day 1993 1996 AAGR (%) 2008 AAGR (%) Estimated in 2014 Originating tonnage/day (ton) 58,114 90,488 15.9 113,555 2% 127,207 Destined tonnage/day (ton) 76,108 101,750 11.2 263,475 8% 423,977 Total tonnage handled/ day (ton) 134,222 192,238 377,030 551,184

Total originating and destined tonnage from Delhi

Growth category 1993 1996 AAGR (%) 2008 AAGR (%) Estimated in 2014 Population (Million) 10.1 11.42

• 16.75
• 18

Goods Traffic Generation Rates (kg/capita/day) 5.73 7.97 12% 7.19

• 1%

7.07 Goods Traffic Attraction Rates (kg/capita/day) 7.5 8.96 6% 16.68 5% 24

Growth trends in goods traffic generation and attraction rates in Delhi

Source : SPA (1993,1996), RITES (2008) Source : SPA (1993,1996), RITES (2008)

Originating tonnage grew at 2% per annum while destined tonnage showed a growth of 8% per annum

*AAGR = Average annual growth rate

Freight Characteristics in Case Markets in Walled City of Delhi

• Walled city originally planned

for 60,000 people, but had 235,000 population in 2001

• Estimated 37,000 wholesale

enterprises

• An employment of about 0.16

Million.

• 60% of total markets are

concentrated in congested part of Old Delhi.

• Wholesale markets deal with

27 major commodities. Major markets are:

• Textile & its products

(Chandini Chowk)

• Auto Parts & Machinery

(Kashmere Gate)

• Fruits & Vegetables (Azadpur)
• Hardware & Building

Materials (Chawri Bazar)

• Iron & Steel (Naraina)
• Paper & Stationary ( Nai

Sarak)

• Food grains (Naya Bazar)
• Timber (Kotla, Kirtinagar)

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Glimpses of fruits and vegetable wholesale market operations

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All pictures: Melissa Cooperman/IFPRI CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Emerging Issues and Challenges of Urban Goods Transport

• Impact of de-concentration of freight facilities within

urban areas or “Logistics Sprawl” phenomena

• Greenhouse gas emissions, noise mitigation and safety

issues

• Emergence of retail stores in suburban areas
• Impact of congestion levels on urban freight delivery

efficiencies

• Impact of e- commerce and growth in home deliveries
• Weak institutional setups, capacity and planning

standards

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School of Planning and Architecture (SPA) Delhi

• SPA Delhi is one of the institutes of “national

importance” offering two year post graduate programme in Transport Planning since 1969

• Logistics and Urban Freight is one of its core programme
• SPA has also recently set up a Centre for Urban Freight

Studies to undertake research and capacity building initiatives in urban freight

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Sustainable Urban Freight Transport: A Global Perspective

Case Study of Delhi Dr Sanjay Gupta School of Planning and Architecture Delhi

Dr Sanjay Gupta, SPA 12

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