Town Planning (Part 1)

A New Standard for Doing Town Planning and Its Evaluation --


Daily to and from commuting over long distance is non-productive. It causes waste of time, waste of fuel, forces the people to spend more money and results in the fatigue for the people. There is a way, for avoiding this situation. Although it is not easy doing so immediately, the care can be taken while doing the planning for new towns.


New Parameter and its Unit of Measurement --

The Parameter to be Measured   --     Daily Commuting
The Unit of Measurement   --     person-kilometres (p.km) 
Similar Unit of Measurement   --     man-hours


ASP's 1st Table of Norms for Better Town Planning --
One way Distance of Commuting
From Home to Place of Work 		The Indicative % of
the People Commuting Daily
From an Area Under Consideration
0 - 3 km At least 50% or more
3 - 6 km 30% Maximum
6 - 10 km 15% Maximum
More than 10 km 5% Maximum


The Advantages of using this standard --

  • The focus will be shifted from 'reducing the time of commuting' to 'reducing the distance of commuting'.
  • Once the distance is reduced, the time also will get automatically reduced.
  • There will occur reduction in the fuel consumption. The vehicular pollution arising out of burning the petrol and diesel will get reduced.
  • Once the distance of commuting gets reduced, the need of the electricity required for running the modern battery operated electric vehicles also will get reduced accordingly. The pollution near the thermal power generation plants, arising out of burning the coal, will get reduced.
  • The need of importing the crude petroleum for vehicle fuels and the coal required for running the thermal power generation plants will get reduced. 
  • This will reduce the foreign exchange outflow and show its better effect in the Indian economy.
  • The people will get more time to spend with their friends and relatives or for the recreational activities.
Rev.0, Date -- 07th April 2019. 

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Last updated on 2022.08.01. (First uploaded here on 2022.08.01.)

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