Examining the Influence of Walk-Access Facility on City Bus Passengers

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Over the last two decades, most of the urban areas in India has experienced a major shift in travel demand due to rapid urbanization. As a consequence, a growing imbalance between vehicular demand and supply of road infrastructure has developed. In such situation, an increased use of bus transport service is often considered as an effective instrument for improving urban mobility. Previous works highlighted that the patronage of urban bus services depends not only on its service quality, but also on accessibility to this service by walk-mode. Realizing this fact, the government and various urban local bodies have advocated on the improvement of “first-and-last mile” connectivity to access urban bus stops as a part of transit-oriented development. Though several works highlighted the importance for improving pedestrian infrastructure on access roads, there has almost been no scientific insight into the suitable improvement of walk infrastructure components for the last-and-first mile connectivity. The current work examines such influence on urban bus patronages for their access-legs of trips by evaluating economic values.