Parking Study

Civitas along with City Connect Foundation is working on a parking policy for Chennai city. What is intended to be covered in this report is: Current Parking Position Parking Management models from across the globe Specific case studies and strategies...

Para-transit Study

Chennai is expanding! and expanding rapidly! With this challenge comes the added pressure on our infrastructure to deliver. One of first visible signs of infrastructure gaps is almost always the transport sector. In most cases the quickest way to tackle...

Autorickshaw study report

Chennai City Connect had recently engaged Civitas for studying the condition of Autorickshaw sector in Chennai. The report is now out. (Click to Open) The study was done with a statistically representative sample of 510 auto drivers. We went into the...

Harrington-Sterling Road Improvement

Happy to inform you that we will be helping Corporation of Chennai (CoC) with design and upgrading of the Nungambakkam Road (from Harrington Road, Sterling Road to the Sangeetha Restaurant junction). The Infrastructure Development Finance Company Limited...

School Survey

Now that the preliminary report of the Anna Nagar Cycle Project is ready, the next phase is the detail assessment phase. Just 11 schools in this zone account for nearly 22000 students with around 25% of them currently commuting by bicycle to school! So...

Anna Flyover Solution

What turned out to be a simple yet brilliant suggestion by CCC Executive Committee member Mr K Venugopal (Joint Editor of Business Line); and some nifty design from traffic expert Mr Mark Selvaraj of LandTech Engineers Pvt Ltd is fast turning into a wonderful...

MTC Website

The main MTC study is taking a bit more time. Meanwhile, we are requesting MTC website embrace the power of Web 2.0 and also share the GPS data online. Once the data is available online, a lot of passengers can plan their city commute without having to...

Airport Parking Update

We have been helping Chennai Airport officials plan better access to the airport and parking facilities. Initially parking structures were part of the airport terminal construction. But due to austerity measures AAI decided not to construct the parking...

Anna Nagar Cycle Track Report

The first cut report of the Anna Nagar cycle track project is out. Click here to read the Evaluation of the existing conditions and design solutions by Michael Ronkin.

Cycle Track

There is a lot of change happening in Chennai infrastructure. Based on the recent Wilbur Smith report 52% of trips in Chennai are short distance trips i.e of <5kms. and currently most of it is done by walk and motorized transport. This adds to the...