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INTRODUCTION

BACKGROUND

Hubli and Dharwad are the twin cities in the state of Karnataka, separated by a distance of 20km. Collectively the cities are referred as “Hubli-Dharwad”. After Bangalore, Hubli-Dharwad is the second largest city in the state of Karnataka. Hubli is a business and industrial hub of north Karnataka. It is also an important city for Indian Railway, being headquarter for South Western Railway Zone and Hubli Railway Division. Likewise, Dharwad is an educational centre.

LOCATION AND REGIONAL SETTING

Hubli-Dharwad is located at 15.21° N, 75.10° E. Dharwad is located at an average altitude of 750 meters above sea level, while Hubli is 640 meters above M.S.L.

Hubli-Dharwad is located 425km north-west of Bangalore, on the National highway 4 between Bangalore and Pune. The cities are separated by a distance of 20km. There are three roads which connect Hubli with Dharwad, namely State Highway 73, National Highway 4 and a Bypass road. The Bypass road was constructed to reduce traffic inside cities. But currently it is not extensively used by the city traffic. National Highway 4 is a part of Golden Quadrilateral; it carries lots of freight traffic.

By rail network, Hubli Dharwad is well connected with major cities of India, like Pune, Bangalore, Gadag, Mysore, Bellary, Belgam, Marmogao, Solapur, Bagalkot, Bijapur, etc. There is also an airport in Hubli, located on Gokul road. Earlier Kingfisher Airline was providing daily flights to Banaglore, Hydrabad and Mumbai. But currently there are no flights operational from this airport.

DEMOGRAPHICS

Before independence population of Hubli was very low. From 1961 to 1981, a significant increase was observed due to the importance given to the state of Karnataka. But it again started declining after 1981. The growth rate was 28.42% during 1991 and only 18.65% during 2001. The decline is due to lack of new economic activities and development of other district centers for trade and commerce activities in the region. Growth rate of Dharwad also improved during 1961-1971, 1971-1981, however again during 1991-2001, the growth rate was only 26.33%.

3-1Demographics - Hubli-dharwad

HDMC	2011
Area	202.3Sq.Km
Population	943857
Decadal growth	1.81
Population density	47

It is expected that the population of the city will grow up to 12 lakh in 2021 as per city development plan and 15 lakh in 2031 as per projections of CEPT, with increase in population density from 47 to 62 in 2021 and 62 to 76 in 2031.

ECONOMY

Hubli is a commercial as well as industrial centre, while Dharwad is an educational hub. Hubli has more than 1000 allied small and medium scale industries, which include electrical, food products, rubber and lather steel, furniture and tanning industries. In small scale industries, products like Agro products, chemicals, machine tools, chemicals, engineering products and pharmaceutical products are manufactured.

Dharwad is an education hub that attracts students from all parts of Karnataka as well as India. It has Karnataka University and Agricultural University, Karnataka Medical College and large number of Science, Arts, Commerce, Law, Medical, Engineering and other technical colleges. Being and education and industrial centre, Dharwad has considerable floating population.

Some of the areas like Gokul industrial estate, Tarihal, Rayapur, Sattur, Belur are notified industrial areas in the twin cities.

PHYSICAL GROWTH PATTERN

The Hubli Municipal Council was established on August 15, 1855, under the Government of India Act of 1850. The Dharwad Municipal Council first came into existence on 1st January 1856. Hubli-Dharwad Municipal Corporation was constituted in the year 1962 by combining these two cities separated by a distance of 20 kilometers considering it as a unique experiment in urban development history. Navanagar was built in 1979 as a major residential area on the corridor connecting Hubli and Dharwad. Authorities are taking similar efforts through CDP and CTTS to contain the city growth within the municipal area.

During the next 10 years another 50 sq. km area is proposed to be developed. Spatially the growth is taking place in between the twin cities. This has given a linear shape to the city form. The trends are expected to continue and CDP provides for growth along the corridor. As presented in the subsequent chapter, movement of people is largely along this corridor. This forms the basis for developing the corridor as rapid transit corridor.

VEHICULAR GROWTH

Hubli, being the commercial hub, has registered a higher vehicle growth rate compared to Dharwad. The number of registered vehicles in the district has grown by 9.38% from 309,455 in 2009 to 33,8481 in 2010 and by 16% from 33,8481 in 2010 to 392875 in 2011. It may be assumed that Hubli Dharwad city accounts for 70% of the total number of registered vehicles in the district.

ROAD NETWORK

Total length of road network in Hubli-Dharwad is 1336km. Total area under roads in the city is 38 Sq.km, which is 18.8% of the city area and around 40% of developed area.

Public Works Department (PWD) is responsible for maintenance of major district roads and state highways, including PB road connecting Hubli and Dharwad, Karnataka Road Development Corporation Ltd. (KRDCL) is responsible for construction of suburban roads and bridges outside the city limits and their maintenance upto first 3 years. And, Hubli-Dharwad Municipal Corporation (HDMC) is responsible for road construction and maintenance within the city limit. Both the cities have radial pattern of roads, with two liner roads; PB road, which is a National Highway (NH 4) and a State Highway (SH 73) and one Bypass road, connecting both the cities separated by a distance of 20km. Other highways passing through Hubli-Dharwad are NH 218 (to solapur), NH 63 (to Halial and Gadag), SH 73 & SH 28 (to Goa).

PUBLIC TRANSIT SYSTEMS

North West Karnataka Road Transport Corporation (NWKRTC)

North West Karnataka Road Transport Corporation (NWKRTC) is primarily responsible for inter and intra-city public bus transport services in Hubli and Dharwad. It was established in the year 1997, under provision of the Road Transport Corporation Act, 1950. The corporation jurisdiction covers Belgam, Dharwad, North Canara, Bagalkot, Gadak and Haveri Districts. It serves many villages in its jurisdiction as well as provides intra and inter state services. The entire jurisdiction of the corporation is totally nationalized sector. Its corporate office is situated at Hubli, under which are eight division headquarters, situated at Belgaum, Hubli, Sirsi, Bagalkot, Gadag, Chikkodi , Haveri and Dharwad. There are total 48 Depots, which are functioning under the administrative control of respective divisions. One Regional workshop having one bus body building unit and one Regional Training Institute is also situated at Hubli.

Other than NWKRTC, Bendre nagar sarige is a private authority which provides bus service in the HUbli-Dharwad. It primarily operates between Hubli and Dharwad from Dharwad Old City Bus stand to Hubli Railway Station, at an average headway of 3 minutes for 16 hours per day. There is a healthy competition between NWKRTC and private operators on this route. Also, some rural operations are present in Dharwad.

INTERMEDIATE PUBLIC TRANSPORT MODES

Auto rickshaws and taxis are the intermediate public transport modes in Hubli Dharwad. The RTO data shows that share of auto rickshaws in vehicle composition of the city is 5.44%, whereas share of taxies is 1.15%. Every year, 10% growth is observed in number of auto rickshaws in Hubli Dharwad. Autos are mostly used for short trips within the cities. Currently there are very less designated auto rickshaw stands in Hubli Dharwad.

TRAVEL CHARACTERISTICS

5-1: Mode Share Hubli-Dharwad

Mode	%
Walk	16
Bus	29.8
Rail	29.8
Car	14.7
Two-wheeler	25.8
Bicycle	6.9
Auto rickshaw	6.5
	100

Hubli being the administrative centre, there is lot of travel towards Hubli for work purpose. Similarly there is lot of travel towards Dharwad for educational purpose, as it is an education centre. As the size of Hubli and Dharwad is small, average trip length including walk trips tends to be shorter (approx 5 km) whereas per capita trip rate tends to be higher (i.e 1.48). Moreover, share of walk trips is higher because of compactness of the cities. In Hubli Dharwad, modal share of two wheelers is dominant with 67% share.

STUDY AREA DELINEATION

Delineated area includes municipal limits as well as contiguous built-up adjoining the municipal limit. Thus, in case of Hubli Dharwad, study area includes only Hubli Dharwad Municipal Corporation (HDMC) area, as there is no prominent development contiguous with the municipal limit.

Map 1-1.Study area Hubli-Dharwad

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SELECTION OF ROAD NETWORK FOR ROAD NETWORK INVENTORY

Road network is classified as per the class II cities since the population of the city is below 10 lakhs. The table below lists the level of roads in each of the category as discussed in chapter two.

Tabel 2-1 Road network Classification

Levels	Length
Level 1 l All National highways and State highways passing through the city. l All the radials originating from the centre of both the cities. l Orbitrals like PB road and NH 4 l Roads which are wider than 18 meter.	136km
Level 2 l All the Major district roads. l Roads which are wider than 15 meter. l Roads that are long and cut across about half of the city.	123km
Level 3 l Roads that connect two major roads (Level 1/Level 2 roads). l Roads that carry traffic from local roads to higher level of the roads.	342km
Level 4 l Roads with width less than 9 meters.	735km

Map 2-1.Level 1 roads

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Map 2-2.Level 1 & 2

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Map 2-3.Level 1, 2&3 roads

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Road network selected for road inventory survey include all the Level 1 and Level 2 roads on which public transport routes are plying. Below is the map showing selected road network for road inventory survey. Total length of selected road network is 194 km.

Map 2-4.Selected road network for road inventory survey

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SELECTION OF PUBLIC TRANSPORT ROUTES

As discussed in section 2.3.4.1, routes selected for Boarding Alighting survey include routes that have headway less than 60 mins. List of routes selected for Boarding Alighting survey is given in Annexure 3.1. Below is the table showing number of routes having headways less than 60 minutes and number of routes selected for boarding alighting survey out of these routes:

Hubli Dharwad
Headway	Total	Selected	Total	Selected
<5	0	0	0	0
5-10	0	0	0	0
10-20	4	4	0	0
20-30	3	3	2	2
30-60	11	5	8	4
	18	12	10	6

Map 3-1.Selected public transport network for Boarding Alighting survey

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A: Public Transport Facility

B: Pedestrian Facility

C: Non Motorised Transport

D: Intelligent Transport System

E: Street Infrastructure

F: Parking Space

G: Road Safety

H: Pollution

I: Integrated landuse transport

J: Financial Sustainability