Sustainble Urban Transport Planning Strategies for Land Use Pattern in Visakhapatnam City

  Ganapati Naidu. P ,  Prof. K. Durga Rani

Urbanization, one of the important factors in the development of countries, creates some negative impacts on the cities. The rapid and haphazard growth of the major cities in India generates numerous problems in the country. The further growth incorporates the haphazardly developed areas into the city leading to the imbalanced land use pattern. The growth cities normally extend more to the fringe areas and it creates the unplanned development of the cities. The development of the cities in the concentric pattern or radial pattern had raised the challenges for the planning of the cities. Visakhapatnam, the cultural and education centre of Andhra Pradesh, is also facing the problems. In the same context, because of the imbalance land use pattern, Visakhapatnam city is facing problems of unequal distribution of physical and social infrastructure in the city. Urban expansion has brought serious losses of agriculture land, vacant land and water bodies. Urban sprawl is responsible for a variety of urban environmental issues like decreased air quality, increased runoff and subsequent flooding, increased local temperature, deterioration of water quality, etc. Visakhapatnam city exhibits steep decline from 78.97% decadal growth rate in 1991-2001 to 55.42% decadal growth rate in 2001-11. The average decadal growth rate from 1951 to 2011 is 63.78%. Rapid growth of the city is mainly attributed to industrialization of after 1970 and expansion of information technology (IT) sector and educational development in the last decade. Eight land use classes have been identified as Urban (Built-up), Residential, Industrial, Roads and Railways, Agricultural land, Hills & Forests, water bodies, ports and vacant land. Classification accuracy is also estimated using the field knowledge obtained from field surveys. The obtained accuracy is between 80 to87 percent for all the classes. Change detection analysis shows that Residential area has been increased by 6.10%, agricultural area has been reduced by 5.78% and barren area reduced by 2% similarly change detection for remaining areas has been done. The increased urbanization may have several impacts on infrastructure, energy use and economy of the country.

Keywords- Urbanization, land use pattern, sustainable development, metropolitan cities, population growth.

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1602017
Page Number(s) - 114-119
Pubished in - Volume 4 | Issue 2 | April 2016
DOI (Digital Object Identifier) -   
Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Ganapati Naidu. P ,  Prof. K. Durga Rani,   "Sustainble Urban Transport Planning Strategies for Land Use Pattern in Visakhapatnam City", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.4, Issue 2, pp.114-119, April 2016, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1602017.pdf