Increase In Ridership of Delhi Metro

CHAPTER - 6 CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS CONCLUSION Delhi metro is one of the most integral part of the transoirtation system of the Capital. The ridership of the Delhi metro is not adequate and should be increased to lower the traffic load from the Delhi roads and to prevent Delhi to be a car dependent state.

The purpose of this dissertation was to examine how principles of Transit Oriented Development (TOD) can help imporve the ridership of the Delhi metro.

As each year passes by, the ridership of Delhi Metro is substantially decreasing.

The increase in the usage of automobile in the capital has resulted in the decrease of ridership of the Delhi Metro. The Delhi Metro has seen a decrease of around 20% in the ridership from January 2015 to December 2019.

From this study we learned about the factors influencing the ridership of the transit stations and these factors became the foundation for the Study areas, i.e, Density, Land Use, Pedestrian Accessibility to stations, Parking and the Establishments in the catchment.

By comparing and analyzing the three study areas, i.e, Green Park Metro Station, Seelampur Metro Station and Janakpuri West Metro Station on the basis of the principles of Transit Oriented Development (TOD) and the above mentioned parameters, we can clearly conclude that the Metro Station with the better mix of land use in the catchment area (500M) has more ridership. It is clear that the Metro station which show some resemblance to the factors affecting the ridership tends to have a higher ridership. Catchment of Green Park Metro Station has better land use mix than the other two stations, with proper pedestrian connectivity and less cheap parking, resulting in the highest ridership among the three Metro Stations.

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