GROWTH PATTERN AND TRAVEL CHARACTERISTICS OF PERIURBAN AREAS OUTSIDE CMA LIMIT

GROWTH PATTERN AND TRAVEL CHARACTERISTICS OF PERIURBAN AREAS OUTSIDE CMA LIMIT

J.Thomas Britto

Dept of civil engineering

Thomasbritto3@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

Chennai is the India’s fourth largest metropolitan city.  The city metropolitan area (CMA) spreads over an area of 1177 square kilometres, out of which Municipal Corporation of Chennai constitutes only an area of 172 Square Kilometres.  The EntireChennaiCity is well connected by Road and Railway Networks.

The city and the metropolitan areas have been growing over past three decades due to increasing birth rate and more migration towards the city from rural area for the purpose of business, employment, education and better livelihood. The increase in population in urban area migration started towards suburban areas. Now sub urban areas are also getting congested, this makes people to shift towards peri-urban areas.

The main objective of the study is to analyze the travel and settlement characteristics of the study area, to develop a model representing the growth pattern of the area by analyzing the socio-economic and travel characteristics of peri-urban areas. The study area is singaperumalkoil which has a major impact on migration due to the availability of SEZ (Special Economic Zone). Various primary and secondary data such as    Network details, House hold survey, Land use data, Population data and Zonal information would be collected to build the model.