OVERVIEW

Street connectivity

The term “street connectivity” suggests a system of streets with multiple routes and connections serving the same origins and destinations. A well-designed, highlyconnected network helps reduce the volume of traffic on major streets, improves pedestrian accessibility and ultimately improves livability in communities by providing parallel routes and alternative route choices. Local street connectivity provides for both intraregional and inter-neighborhood connections to knit developments together, rather than forming barriers between them.

Characteristics

Street network is considered to be one of the keys to the development of a region. The huge developmental cost of the road network demands effective utilization, which can be attained only when there are proper connectivity and orientation. Though in most Indian cities streets have developed organically over a period of years. Hence the challenges in the area of existing development are to rationalize this organic network to design a well-connected street network.

Content of street connectivity

The study of street connectivity consist the aspects of the percentage of area under a street, block sizes and the number of intersections.According to UTTIPEC TOD report 2012, maximum walking distance is