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Sustainable Urban Freight Transport: A Global Perspective Case Study of Delhi Dr Sanjay Gupta Source : By Philg88 - Own work, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=34170929 School of Planning and Architecture Delhi Dr Sanjay Gupta, SPA 1

Importance of Urban Freight • Urban freight is important for social and economic viability of urban areas. • Goods transport account for 10 to 15 percent of vehicle equivalent km travelled in urban areas, 2 to 5 percent of employed urban workforce and 3 to 5 percent of urban land use (UN Habitat 2013 report) • Goods vehicle & operating costs contribute 5% to 8% to total metropolitan city’s tax revenue (Delhi) CC0 CC0 CC0 Dr Sanjay Gupta, SPA 2

Goods Movement in Indian Cities Estimated Daily Goods Flow in Selected Cities of India (in tons) 45,000 Intercity Inbound Intercity Outbound Intracity flow 40,000 35,000 Goods in tons 30,000 Source : Data from CRRI Study (1998); Own figure CC0 25,000 20,000 15,000 10,000 5,000 0 Ahmedabad Nagpur Indore Vizag Agra Asanol Nashik Bhubaneshwar Ajmer Yamunanagar Adoni Darjeeling Samastipur Chickballapur Cities Goods traffic intensities generally tends to decrease with decrease in city size. Dr Sanjay Gupta, SPA 3

Typical Freight Handling Operations in Indian Cities (1) CC0 CC0 CC0 CC0 Dr Sanjay Gupta, SPA 4

Typical Freight Handling Operations in Indian Cities (2) CC0 CC0 CC0 CC0 Dr Sanjay Gupta, SPA 5

Case Study of Delhi • Area : 1500 sq km approx. • Population : 16.3 mill. • Vehicles : 7.5 mill. • About 1.5 mill. registered goods vehicles out of which 38% vehicles have local permit and rest has inter-state permit Source : By Philg88 - Own work, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=34170929 Dr Sanjay Gupta, SPA 6

Freight Traffic Growth Trends in Delhi Total originating and destined tonnage from Delhi Traffic Type/day 1993 1996 AAGR (%) 2008 AAGR (%) Estimated in 2014 Originating tonnage/day (ton) 58,114 90,488 15.9 113,555 2% 127,207 Destined tonnage/day (ton) 76,108 101,750 11.2 263,475 8% 423,977 Total tonnage handled/ day (ton) 134,222 192,238 377,030 551,184 Source : SPA (1993,1996), RITES (2008) Originating tonnage grew at 2% per annum while destined tonnage showed a growth of 8% per annum Growth trends in goods traffic generation and attraction rates in Delhi Growth category 1993 1996 AAGR (%) 2008 AAGR (%) Estimated in 2014 Population (Million) 10.1 11.42 - 16.75 - 18 Goods Traffic Generation Rates 5.73 7.97 12% 7.19 -1% 7.07 (kg/capita/day) Goods Traffic Attraction Rates 7.5 8.96 6% 16.68 5% 24 (kg/capita/day) Source : SPA (1993,1996), RITES (2008) *AAGR = Average annual growth rate Dr Sanjay Gupta, SPA 7

Freight Characteristics in Case Markets in Walled City of Delhi Walled city originally planned Major markets are: • for 60,000 people, but had Textile & its products • 235,000 population in 2001 (Chandini Chowk) Estimated 37,000 wholesale • Auto Parts & Machinery • enterprises (Kashmere Gate) An employment of about 0.16 • Fruits & Vegetables (Azadpur) • Million. Hardware & Building • 60% of total markets are • Materials (Chawri Bazar) concentrated in congested Iron & Steel (Naraina) • part of Old Delhi. Paper & Stationary ( Nai • Wholesale markets deal with • Sarak) 27 major commodities. Food grains (Naya Bazar) • Timber (Kotla, Kirtinagar) • Dr Sanjay Gupta, SPA 8

Glimpses of fruits and vegetable wholesale market operations All pictures: Melissa Cooperman/IFPRI CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Dr Sanjay Gupta, SPA 9

Emerging Issues and Challenges of Urban Goods Transport • Impact of de-concentration of freight facilities within urban areas or “Logistics Sprawl” phenomena • Greenhouse gas emissions, noise mitigation and safety issues • Emergence of retail stores in suburban areas • Impact of congestion levels on urban freight delivery efficiencies • Impact of e- commerce and growth in home deliveries • Weak institutional setups, capacity and planning standards Dr Sanjay Gupta, SPA 10

School of Planning and Architecture (SPA) Delhi • SPA Delhi is one of the institutes of “national importance” offering two year post graduate programme in Transport Planning since 1969 • Logistics and Urban Freight is one of its core programme • SPA has also recently set up a Centre for Urban Freight Studies to undertake research and capacity building initiatives in urban freight Dr Sanjay Gupta, SPA 11

Sustainable Urban Freight Transport: A Global Perspective Case Study of Delhi Dr Sanjay Gupta Source : By Philg88 - Own work, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=34170929 School of Planning and Architecture Delhi Dr Sanjay Gupta, SPA 12