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Development Plan for Kalpetta Municipality

Town & Country Planning Department, Government of Kerala

Traffic and Transportation

CHAPTER-7

TRAFFIC & TRANSPORTATION

7.1 Introduction

The efficiency of transportation system is an indicator of development. Roads are important channels of movement of people and the development of road network in any settlement is the physical manifestation of the extent and the direction of the mobility of the people to satisfy their requirements in day to day activities for work, recreation and living. Physiographically, Wayanad is situated in the south west edge of Peninsular shield of India, is distinctly marked by the Western ghats where ground elevation above mean sea level range between 700-2100m, whereby it is totally contained within the Highland region with rugged topography. The only mode of transport is road and no alternatives such as rail, air and waterways are available. 7.2 Regional Transportation network

Wayanad is well connected to Mysore and Coorg districts of Karnataka, the Nilgiris and

Ootty – the famous tourist place in South India in Tamilnadu, Kannur, Kozhikode and Malappuram districts in Kerala by road. Kozhikode - Kollegal road (NH 766) and Mananthavady- Bavali road connect the district to Karnataka. It is connected to Nilgiri district in TamilNadu by Sulthan Batheri-Ayyankolly-Gudallur road and Vythiri-Vaduvanchal- Gudallur road. The three roads which connect the district with Kozhikode and Kannur districts of Kerala are Thamarassery ghat (NH 766), Mananthavadi – Thalassery road through Periya ghat and Mananthavady-Kuttiyadi road through Kuttiyadi ghat. The district is well linked with Karippur International airport at Kozhikode district (90 km from kalpetta) through NH 766 and the proposed airport at Moorkhanparamba at Kannur district is within the nearest proximity to the district. There is well linkage between the Beypore port at Kozhikode and Bangaluru the famous IT hub. The nearest railway station is at Kozhikode about 75 km away from the district head quarters. The Fig.7.1 illustrates the regional road network.

Fig.7.1 Regional road network

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The transportation towards south is difficult due to the steep hills and the land sliding and road accidents make the journey through ghats life threatening. Hence alternate road proposals avoiding ghat section are considered by the Government. The following proposals are under consideration out of which Kalpetta – Varambetta road takes off from Kalpetta.

1. Kalpetta – Varambetta- Poozhithode Road 2. Meppadi-Chooralmala-Nilambur Road. 3. Thondernadu-Kunhome-Vilangad Road. 4. Chippilithode-Maruthilavu-Thalippuzha Road. 5. Meppadi-Kalladi-Anakkampoyil Road.

The Karnataka Government banned the night journey to Mysore through the Bandhipur

National park (NH766) and the alternate to this route considered is Manathavadi – Tholpetty – Kutta – Hunsur – Mysore. Also the proposed “Hill highway “passes through the district and the following road stretches form the part of the Hill highway in the district.

1. Mananthavadi – Panamaram – Kalpetta – Meppadi – Arunappuzha road. 2. Boys Town – Mananthavadi – Tharuvana – Padinharathara – Poozhithodu road.

7.3 District Transportation network The district has fairly good road network comprises of National Highway, State Highways,

Major District roads and Other roads. All the roads are experienced with poor road geometry and surface condition. The NH 766 connects the district with Kozhikode and Mysore and other growth centres within the district are well connected with major district roads. The State Highways passing through the District are

1. Chudale – Meppadi – Ootty road 2. Kalpetta – Varambetta road. The existing road network Wayanad district is shown in Fig.7.2

Fig.7.2 District Transportation Network

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7.4 Local Transportation Network

The road network within the municipality is of a radial type with limited inter-linkages. The NH 766 passes through the heart of the town divides it into two halves. The town is well connected to other parts of the district by MDR and other roads. The Kalpetta – Varambetta road (SH 54) takes off from Kalpetta town connects the town with the western part of the district and Kozhikode though Padijharathara – Poozhithodu road (Proposed alternate road to Kozhikode without Hairpin bends). The construction of NH Bypass from Meppadi Road junction ( traffic junction) to Kainatty is not completed. Apart from these major district roads leading to places outside the town are-

1) Kalpetta - Mananthavady Road 2) Kalpetta - Meppadi Road

Fig 7.3 shows the existing road network within the Town.

Fig 7.3: Existing Road network in Kalpetta Municipality 7.5 Transportation Study, Analysis and Findings

The analysis of transportation network in the Planning area is carried out on the basis of the following.

1. Existing Road Network. 2. Traffic analysis 3. Capacity utilization 4. Parking demand 5. Pedestrian traffic 6. Intercity /Intra city travel characteristics 7. Existing facilities. 8. Issues.

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The Traffic and Transportation studies have been entrusted to M/s National Transportation Planning and Research Centre (NATPAC), Thiruvananthapuram and the findings were derived on the basis of their studies.

7.5.1 Existing Road network

Kalpetta town is a major transit centre connected by road. The study area is served by public transport system consisting of both State owned Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) and private buses. The private buses are operated from both old and new Municipal bus stands. The road network within the study area is of radial type with limited inter-linkages. The town roads are maintained by both PWD and the Municipality. Major roads leading to places outside as well as within the town are:

Mananthavady road, Meppady road, Munderi road, Emili road, Maniyankode - Puliyarmala road, Vellaramkunnu road, Warehouse - Munderi road Maniyancode - Kottathara road.

The existing road network is shown in fig 7.3 and the length of roads available in the Municipality and their classification are given in table 7.1. The road density in the municipality comes to 5.39Km/1000ppn. Table7.1: Length of Road within the Municipality

Source: NATPAC Report

7.5.2 Traffic Analysis To understand the present scenario in the traffic and transportation sector and to formulate an efficient transportation network, the following parameters have to be analysed.

Sl No Road Type Length (Km)

1 National Highway 8.10

2 State Highway 4.48

3 District Roads 13.97

4 Other Roads 133.00

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7.5.2.1 Accident prone areas

Accidents are caused due to many reasons such as indiscipline of the road users, poor road geometric, visibility obstruction, weather changes and encroachments. Year wise number of accidents occurred during 2008 and 2009 are presented in Table 7.2. The analysis of the data revealed that year wise number of accidents reduced from 73 in the year 2008 to 66 during 2009.

Table 7.2: Distribution of type wise road accidents in Kalpetta town

Year No. of accidents

Total Simple Grievous Property damage 2008 35 24 14 73 2009 35 25 6 66

Analysis of the distribution of accidents according to vehicle type showed that 50 to 55 percent of accidents involved pedestrian / passenger. During the year 2009, the involvement of pedestrians was found to be 55 percent of the total accidents. Places like Kainatty junction area, Vellaramkunnu, Madiyoorkuni, SKMJ School area; Emili road junction, Gudalai junction area, Civil Station area, KSRTC Garage area, new bus stand to Vijaya pump area, Pinangode junction to old bus stand etc. were the major accident prone locations within the town. Fig.7.4 shows the spatial location of accident prone areas in the town.

Fig.7.4. Spatial distribution of Accident prone area The major bottlenecks in the road network are the road stretches from SKMJHS to Gudalai junction, Anappalam junction to Chungam junction, Chungam junction to St.Josephs School at Pinangode road which are spatially located in Fig.7.5.

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Fig.7.5. Bottlenecks within the municipality

7.5.2.2 Vehicle population The trend in vehicular growth has been phenomenal all over the country and the Wayanad is no exception to this. The growth of motor vehicle in Wayanad district during the period from the year 2000 to 2009 is given in Table 7.3 It could be seen that the vehicle population in Wayanad district has grown by nearly two times during the last nine years. The number of motor vehicles having valid registration in Wayanad district in 2009 is given in Table 7.4. An analysis of the existing vehicle population shows that the major share of nearly 47 percent of the total vehicle population in the district continued to be two – wheelers (26,630) followed by 12.7 percent of the total vehicles in Wayanad district.

Table 7.3: Growth of motor vehicles in Wayanad district since 2000-2009

Year No. of vehicles in Wayanad District No. of vehicles in Kerala

2000 – 01 30405 2449961 2001 – 02 31427 2825912 2002 – 03 33479 3111099 2003 – 04 36358 3338267 2004 – 05 40425 3675930 2005 -06 46556 4080392 2006 - 07 53957 4504220 2007 - 08 52171 4442387 2008 - 09 56242 4880059

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Table 7.4: Number of vehicles having valid registration in Wayanad district in 2009 Type of vehicles Wayanad district Kerala state

Goods vehicles 3413 246687 3 wheelers 1631 100919 Stage carriage 527 41998 Contract carriage 1217 110833 Cars 6590 767753 Taxi 3055 142054 Jeeps 3874 73700 Auto rickshaws 7139 422905 Motorized cycle - 1078 Two wheelers 26630 2928226 Tractor 121 11656 Tiller & trailers 358 7505 Others 1687 24745

Total 56242 4880059 7.5.2.3 Road inventory

For the purpose of studying the traffic characteristics of the study area, major travel corridors were identified and were divided in to homogeneous sections on major roads in Kalpetta town. The list is given in Table 7.5

Table 7.5: Details of homogenous sections identified on major roads in Kalpetta Town

Name of road Homogeneous sections 1. N H - 766

from Vellaramkunnu - town boundary

- Vellaramkunnu - Madiyoorkuni Jn - Madiyoorkuni Jn - Meppadi road Jn - Meppadi road Jn - Pinangod road Jn - Pinangod road Jn - Munderi road Jn - Munderi road Jn - Rest house road Jn - Rest house road Jn - Kainatty Jn - Kainatty Jn - Town boundary

2. Meppadi road from bye pass Jn - A R Camp

- Meppadi road Jn - Puthurvayal Jn - Puthurvayal Jn - A R Camp Jn

3. Pinangod road from NH766 Jn – Town boundary

- NH -212 Jn - Warehouse Jn - Warehouse Jn - Town boundary

4. Mananthavady road - Kainatty Jn - Town boundary ( near Jain temple) 5. Emili road - Munderi road Jn - Rest house Jn on NH- 766near Civil

station 6. Vellaramkunnu road - Vellaramkunnu Jn on NH-212 - Town boundary 7. Munderi road from N H -766

- N H -766 Jn – Emili road Jn - Emili road Jn – Munderi Jn - Munderi Jn – Maniyamcode Jn - Maniyamcode Jn – Kottathara road town boundary

8. Puliyarmala road - Maniyamcode Jn – Govt. ITI Jn - Govt. ITI Jn – Mananthavady road

9. Ware house Jn – Munderi Jn - Ware house Jn – Munderi Jn

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The NH766 has nearly 8.1 km of length of road within the study area. The carriage way

width of this road varied from 6.7 m to 7.2 meters. The road section between Pinangode road junction and Police Station Junction was found to be congested due to heavy parking of all type of vehicles. Absence of foot path and shoulders were also noted during the inventory survey of this road. The inventory of major roads is presented in the Table 7.6. (See Annexe I) The analysis reveals that almost all the roads are experienced with insufficient carriage width, absence of foot path, shoulders and median, sharp curves which reduces sight distances and poor road geometry and thus creates road accidents.

7.5.2.4 Speed and delay characteristics. Speed and delay survey was carried out on all the major roads in the town to evaluate the existing speed. Moving car method was used to determine the journey speed and delays. Based on the Test Runs made during the peak and off peak period during the day, the average travel speed of traffic with and without delay were worked out. Table 7.7 gives the average running speed on different sections of the roads in the town.

Table 7.7: Road section wise existing running speed in Kalpetta town

Road section

Distance (Kms.)

Running time (second)

Delay time (sec.)

Actual running time (sec)

Speed Kms/Hr.

With delay

Without delay

1. N H -212 Vellaramkunnu –By- pass Jn 3.600 370 25 345 35 38 By pass Jn - Pinangod Road Jn. 1.100 150 40 110 26 36 Pinangod road jn. - Munderi Road Jn. 0.400 90 25 65 16 22

Munderi road jn. - Civil Station Jn. 1.800 355 105 250 18 26

Civil station Jn. - Kainatty Jn. 0.600 85 15 70 25 31 Kainatty Jn. - Town boundary 0.600 65 3 62 33 35 Average speed 8.100 1115 213 902 26 32 2. Meppady road By pass jn. - A R Camp 3.300 365 20 345 33 34 3. Pinangod road NH -212 jn. - Warehouse jn. 1.500 158 10 148 34 36 Warehouse jn. - Puzhamoodi 1.800 182 8 174 36 37 Average speed 4. Mananthavady road (from Kainatty jn. - Jain temple

1.300 124 0 124 38 38

5. Mundri jn. - warehouse jn. 1.000 149 9 140 24 26 6. Munderi road N H – 212 jn. - Emili road jn. 0.100 20 8 12 18 30

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Emili road jn. - Munderi jn. 1.500 170 30 140 32 38 Munderi jn. - Maniyamcode 1.100 149 14 135 26 29 Maniyamcode jn.- Town limit 1.000 141 11 130 26 28 Average speed 3.700 480 63 417 28 32 7. Emili road (from Munderi road – Civil stn. Jn.

2.200 224 39 185 35 43

8. Vellaramkunnu road 3.500 550 62 488 23 26 9. Puliyarmala road Maniyamcode jn-.Govt.ITI jn. 1.400 162 10 152 31 33 Govt. ITI Jn -Mananthavady rd.

1.300 192 11 181 24 26

Average speed 2.700 354 21 333 27 29 An analysis of delays and causes of delay reveals that traffic congestion, haphazard parking of vehicles, narrow and bad road conditions were the major causes of delay for traffic flow on all most all roads in Kalpetta town. It could be seen that the major delay of 105 seconds was observed on NH - 766 between Munderi road junction and Rest house road junction due to the bus stop near Municipal Office. Absence of bus bays at this area and unorganized parking of two wheelers and four wheelers were the main reason of delay at this section. This is followed by 40 seconds of delay between the section Meppady road junction and Pinangode road junction. Left / right turning of buses from / to Vythiri / Meenangady direction to / from the new bus stand, unorganized parking of LCV (Light Commercial Vehicles) and passenger autos at auto stand were the major causes of delay at this road section. Bad road condition and frequent curves were the reasons for delay on Meppady road. Pedestrian interference in front of Fathima hospital area and Pot holes and bad road surface were the causes of delay on Pinangode road. Pot holes and bad road condition near Ambilleri area was the major causes of delay on Munderi road. All other roads, the causes of delay were due to bad condition of road surface.

7.5.2.5 Traffic volume at major intersections The following are the major Junctions identified on National Highway, Munderi road and Pinangod road in the town limit.

Kainatty Junction on NH 766 Munderi road Junction ( Anappalam junction ) on NH 766 Pinangod road Junction( Chungam junction ) on NH 766 Meppady road Junction( Traffic

junction ) on NH 766 Madiyoorkuni road Junction on NH

766 Vellaramkunnu road Junction on NH

766 Munderi Junction on Kottathara road Maniyancode Junction on Kottathara

road and Ware house Junction on Pinangod

road. The major intersections selected for volume count survey is presented in Fig 7.6.and the

Kainatty Junction

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peak hour volume are shown in Table 7.8

Fig 7.6 Important road junctions in Kalpetta municipality

Table. 7.8: Peak hour Traffic flow at major intersections Sl.No

Name of road intersection No. of arms

Peak hour Peak hour volume(PCU )

1 Kainatty Junction 3 10.45 AM to 11.45 AM 1209 2 Munderi road junction 3 10.30Am to 11.30Am 2088 3 Pinangode road junction 5 10.30Am to 11.30Am 2356 4 Meppadi Road junction 4 3.30PM to 4.30PM 1361 5 Madiyoorkuni junction 3 3.45 PM to 4.45 PM 1062 6 Vellaramkunnu junction 3 9.30 AM to 10.30AM 660 7 Munderi junction 4 4.30 PM to 5.30 PM 420 8 Maniyancode junction 3 3.45 PM to 4.45 PM 175 9 Ware house junction 3 5 PM to 6PM 393

The analysis shows that the peak hour traffic volume is maximum at Pinangode road junction and Munderi road junction where the turning movement of NH is found maximum.

7.5.3 Link volume and Capacity utilization

Data pertaining to traffic volume and its composition was collected and analysed for all major roads. Link volume survey reveals that On National Highway - 766, the delay traffic volume varied from 6,200 PCU, observed at Vellaramkunnu – Madiyoorkuni section, to about 18,290 PCU at Meppady road junction to Pianangode road junction. The homogenous sections, Pianangode road junction to Munderi road junction (18960 PCU), Munderi junction to Rest house road junction (17680 PCU) and Kainatty junction to town limit towards Meenangadi direction witnessed 10263 PCU’s per day. The average daily traffic volume in PCU for Meppady road varied from 2793 to 2850 PCU’s and that of Pinangode road varied from 3113 PCU to 7090 PCU. The first homogenous section of Munderi road (NH- 212 Jn. – Emily road Jn.) witnessed an average delay traffic volume of nearly 5100 PCUs and the remaining 3 sections carried 2960 PCU, 2530

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PCU and 1350 PCU respectively. All other road selected for study carried about 600 PCU to 4150 PCUs per day.

7.5.3.1 Capacity utilization

Capacity utilization of road stretches was measured by volume-to-capacity ratio (V/C

ratio). It is the ratio of volume of traffic plying on the road section to the capacity of the road stretch.

For working out the capacity of different road sections, the information compiled during the road inventory survey was compared with the specification of IRC- 106 -1990 (guidelines for capacity on urban roads). While working out the capacities, due consideration was given to carriage way width, junctions, parking, lateral clearance, shoulders, surface conditions etc. The traffic volume observed at different road stretches were compared with the capacity of road sections, to calculate the volume – capacity ratio (V/C ratio) of this road sections within the study area. The volume capacity ratio of major roads in Kalpetta town is presented in Table 7.9. On NH – 766 the homogenous sections between Meppady road junction to Civil station road junction (three sections) was found to be over - utilized. All other sections of NH - 766 and other major roads, the V/C ratio were less than one.

Table 7.9: Volume capacity ratio on major road links in Kalpetta town Sl.No Road links Capacity

( PCU per day)

Volume ( PCU per day)

V/C ratio

1. N H -212 Vellaramkunnu - Madiyoorkuni jn.

12000 6169 0.51

Madiyoorkuni jn. - Meppady jn. 12000 10364 0.86 Meppady jn. - Pinangode road jn. 12000 18290 1.52 Pinangode road jn.- Munderi road jn 12000 18960 1.58 Munderi road jn. - Civil station jn. 12000 17680 1.47 Civil station jn. - Kainatty jn. 12000 11410 0.95 Kainatty jn. - Town limit 12000 10263 0.86

2 Meppady road By pass junction - Puthurvayal

9000 2850 0.32

Puthurvayal - A R Camp 9000 2793 0.31 3. Pinangode road NH -212 junctions -

Warehouse jn. 9000 7090 0.79

Warehouse junction - Town limit 9000 3113 0.35 4. Mananthavady road

Kainatty jn. - Town limit 9000 4150 0.46

5 Emili road Munderi road jn. - Civil station jn. On NH 766

6000 2037 0.23

6. Vellaramkunnu road 6000 584 0.10 7. Puliyarmala road

Maniyamcode jn. - Govt. ITI jn. 6000 1120 0.19

Govt. ITI junction - Mananthavady road 6000 1037 0.17 8. Munderi road NH 766 jn. - Emili road

junction. 9000 5100 0.57

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Emili road jn. - Munderi junction 9000 2960 0.33 Munderi jn.- Maniyamcode junction 9000 2530 0.28 Maniyamcode jn. - Town limit 9000 1350 0.15

9. Warehouse junction - Munderi junction 6000 1310 0.22

7.5.4 Parking demand

Table 7.10 gives the summary of peak parking accumulation observed on major parking corridors in Kalpetta town. Out of the nine major corridors studied, it was found that the section between Pinangode road junction to Mariyamman temple Junction had the highest parking accumulation of 106 vehicles consisting of 43 cars / jeeps, 18 two wheelers, 11 autos, 20 taxi jeeps, 11 taxi cars, two mini trucks and one truck at 11.00 am.The Core area from Mariyamman temple to Police Station Junction near Meppady road Junction witnessed highest parking accumulation during the same time (11.00 am) with 22 cars / jeeps, 15 two wheelers, 18 passenger autos, 8 goods autos, 9 mini trucks and 2 trucks. Other important areas / corridors on NH – 766, witnessing high parking demand for 70 vehicles in and around Civil Station area, 65 Vehicles along Municipal office area, 70 Vehicles between Sreelakhsmi lodge to Munderi road Junction and 56 vehicles along Munderi Junction to Pinangod road junction.

The lorry parking demand along bye pass road near Meppady junction shows that a maximum of 26 goods carrying vehicles were parked during the survey time( 4.00 pm), consisting of 2 goods auto, 6 mini trucks, 14 trucks and 4 MAT. Majority of vehicles parked along these corridors were found to be for short duration of less than 30 minutes. 37 to 68 percent of the vehicles along NH – 766 parked for less than 30 minutes on a normal working day, while 17 percent to 31 percent were found to be parked for a period 31 to 60 minutes. Taxi cars and jeeps were found to be parked more than 3 hours at their stands.

Table 7.10: Parking accumulation at different road sections in Kalpetta town

Road section Peak time

Car/ Jeep

Sc/ Mc

Auto (P) stand

Taxi jeep (stand)

Taxi car (stand)

Auto (G)

Mini truck

Truck Total

Civil Station area (from rest house road - pension bhavan road)

03.00 pm

41 12 12 - - 3 2 - 70

Municipal Office area ( up to Sree Lakashmi lodge)

04.30 pm

27 13 13 0 0 7 2 3 65

Sree Lakshmi lodge - Munderi road jn.

05.30 pm

37 20 9 3 - 1 - - 70

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Munderi road jn. - Pinangod road jn.

05.30 pm

14 19 20 - - 2 1 - 56

Pinangod road jn.-Mariyamman temple road jn.

11.30 a

43 18 11 20 11 - 2 1 106

Mariyamman temple jn. – Police station jn.

11.00 am

22 15 18 - - 8 9 2 74

Pinangod road fish market area

05.30 pm

6 24 3 - - 8 2 - 43

Munderi road junction area

11.30 am

8 16 7 1 2 3 - - 37

Lorry parking at bye pass

04.00 pm

- - - - - 2 6 14 & MAT 4

7.5.5 Pedestrian Traffic

Pedestrian Surveys were conducted at major locations where the pedestrian cross movement were found high. Location is selected for pedestrian survey and peak hour pedestrian demand is shown in the Table 7.11.

Table 7.11: Peak pedestrian volume

Locations

Peak hour

No. of pedestrians UP DN Total

1. Kainatty junction

On NH 766 8.30 – 9.30 AM 87 185 272

On Mananthavady road ,, 26 23 49

2. In front of Civil Station 4.45 – 5.45 PM 293 53 346

3.In front of Municipal Office 10.15 – 11.15 AM 349 402 751

4.In front of New bus stand 10.15 – 11.15 AM 292 255 547

5.In front of Old bus stand 4.45 – 5.45 PM 357 203 560

6. Munderi road jn. on NH 766

On N H -212 9.30 – 10.30 AM 264 222 486

On Munderi road ,, 626 255 881

7.In front of HIM UP School 5.00 – 6.00 PM 306 268 574

8.In front of Fish market 4.30 – 5.30 PM 324 305 629

9.Meppady road 4.45 – 5.45 PM 70 60 130

10. Pinangod road jn. on NH

On N H -212 9.45 – 10.45 AM 327 266 593

On Pinangod road ,, 359 495 845

Source: NATPAC Report

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Analysis of pedestrian cross movement at major activity / traffic generation area revealed that high volume of pedestrian cross movements occurred at Pinangode road Junction on NH 766, followed by Munderi road Junction on NH 766. Pedestrian crossing in front of Municipal Office area, Fish market area, new and Old bus stand area were also found to be very high during peak hour.

7.5.6 Inter city Travel Characteristics

Base year intercity characteristics of passenger and goods movements were obtained by conducting origin – destination survey of motor vehicles pass through major outer cordon locations in Kalpetta town as listed below.

Kainatty (NH – 212 Sulthan Batheri direction) Vellaramkunnu (NH – 212 kozhikode direction) Mananthavady road (Near Jain temple) A.R. Camp (Meppady road) Town boundary on pinangode road.

Fig 7.7 shows the location selected for conducting origin – destination survey in Kalpetta

town.

Fig 7.7 Location of outer cordon points within the Town The study was carried out to assess the quantum of inter – city passengers entering and exiting the town using different modes along with their socio-economic characteristics such as purpose, occupation and frequency of trips. The study also helped to identify the trip production and attraction of different zones in the town. For the analysis of the survey the study area has been divided into six zones in the town as below.

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Zone 1: Town area formed of Pinangode road, ware house - Munderi - Maniyankode - TB road and NH - 212. ie. The western side of NH in the CBD comprising wards, V, VI, VII, VIII, XI and XIII.

Zone 2: Core area formed of eastern side of NH - 212 and western side of bye pass comprising of ward XIII.

Zone 3: southern side of Pinangod road and western side of NH - 212 formed of wards XVIII, XIX and XII

Zone 4: zone in the town comprising eastern side of NH - 212, northern side of Meppady road formed of wards III, IX, X and XIV.

Zone 5: zone comprising of wards XV, XVI and XVII, namely the eastern side of NH - 212 and southern side of Meppady road.

Zone 6: The north - western portion of the town of wards I, II, IV and XXI of Maniyancode, Puliyarmala and Munderi localities.

Further outer zones were delineated as follows: Zone 7: Places in Pozhuthana and Thariyode Panchayaths. Zone 8: Places in Meppady and Muppainad Panchayaths. Zone 9: Places in Vengarapalli, Kottathara and Padinjanathara Panchayaths. Zone 10: Places in Muttil and Meenangady Panchayaths. Zone 11: Places in Vythiri and Chundal Panchayaths. Zone 12: Panchayaths of Mananthavady Block. Zone 13: Panchayaths of Sulthan Bathery Block & remaining panchayaths of

Kalpetta Block. Zone 14: Places in Kozhikode and Southern districts of the State via. NH – 766. Zone 15: Places in Kozhikode district via – Pakranthalam ghat road Zone 16: Places in Kannur and Kasargode district. Zone 17: Places in Karnataka and northern states via NH – 766. Zone 18: Places in Tamilnadu.

Fig 7.8 graphically shows the zoning pattern adopted for the town and periphery under the study.

Fig 7.8 Zoning pattern adopted for town and its periphery

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7.5.6.1 Link volume study

Volume count survey of all vehicles entering / exiting the study region was conducted at five outer cordon points of Kalpetta town. Classified volume of vehicles was recorded according to their direction of travel. Distribution of vehicles passing through the outer cordon points in Kalpetta town are given in Table 7.12.

The maximum daily traffic volume of 10264 PCU was observed at Kainatty survey point on NH – 766 Sulthan Bathery directions, which included 5308 PCU of inbound vehicles and 4956 PCU of out bound vehicles. Car / jeep and van constituted the maximum followed by two wheelers. As many as 6162 PCU of various types of vehicles were observed at Vallaramkunnu survey point on NH – 766 Kozhikode directions. The inbound and out bound volume in PCU was formed to be almost same (3127 and 3042 PCU’s). About 4,200 PCU of vehicles were observed on Mananthavadi road survey point at Jain temple area, of which the inbound and out bound vehicles were found to be 2138 PCU and 2012 PCU respectively. The Total Passenger Car Unit (PCU) of other two roads, namely Pinangode road and Meppady roads were 3113 and 2793 respectively.

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