Planning for Non Motarised Transport System and Efficacy of Contemporary Urban Land Use Planning in Mysuru City, Karnataka

The urban planning is attempting to promote economically productive, environmentally safe and socially inclusive planning under sustainable planning strategies for towns and cities for mitigating the climate change impacts and also for the future needs. The priority of Non-Motorized Transport (NMT) becoming an important urban planning prerequisite among the existing priorities of urban transportation under the planning approach of integrated urban transport system. In most of the Indian cities the Public Bicycle Sharing system becoming an first priority option in the present context, the same has been deliberately retrofitted into the existing urban fabrics of many cities, but in most of the cities it has failed in spite of it, in the same planning format repeatedly attempted without thinking on the reasons for failure. In Indian urban context a study is required in the cities where the Non-Motorized Transport system are introduced or reintroduced to explore reasons for failure. In this paper a study has been conducted of understanding the planning problems for introducing Non-Motorized Transport under bicycle sharing systems and problems of the bicycle users. An attempt has been made propose planning strategies and recommend planning & design solutions for effective utilization and integration of bicycle sharing system in the urban context of Mysuru city of Karnataka state, India.