INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC & TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH VOLUME 9, ISSUE 06, JUNE 2020 ISSN 2277-8616 153 IJSTR©2020 www.ijstr.org Use of BIM tools to provide Urban Transport planning solutions for Eastern Pune city. Shubham S Nayak, Onkar B Patil, Neha S Panjabi, Arati L Ohol, Deepa A Joshi Abstract— One of the complex problems faced by the city municipalities is the traffic congestion. It makes life in urban areas uncomfortable for citizens. Each years the municipalities squanders large chunks of money to resolve this problem. The eastern region of Pune is experiencing this problem especially during peak hours, due to improper traffic planning and poor infrastructure design. In this paper the traffic congestion causes are analyzed for the road connecting the Hadapsar and Kondhwa in eastern Pune and design of proper planned road intersection was proposed. The congestion was measured by determining flow rate and number of different types of vehicles passing during peak hour by generating Traffic Volume Count (TVC) report and the choice of the optimal solution should be the result of a complex, well-organized and optimized process. Updated techniques, devices and software such as BIM tools are available nowadays, to integrate all the involved aspects. Index Terms—SketchUp, Infraworks BIM 360, Traffic Volume Count, Infrastructure, BIM ——————————  ————————— 1 INTRODUCTION One of the most complicated issues in urban life is the traffic problem. In eastern region of Pune, development in the number of roads and transportation infrastructure is not enough to fulfill the rapid increase in the number of vehicles. The absence of active public transportation such as MRT, PRT, LRT etc., improper traffic planning are one of the causes of congestion problems. The increasing population and high-income individuals in any country has its effects on the existing transportation systems. This study will focus on the problems erupted by traffic congestions on a specific road which is also a city highways in eastern Pune region, as well as the solutions to avoid traffic congestion. The eastern region of Pune has large areas of resident townships and Information Technology parks. The main road connecting Hadapsar and Kharadi is going through residential townships and IT parks, another road coming from Ghorpadi is going towards Manjari intersects with the main road, fig.1 is a satellite image which shows the location of the area from where the traffic flows and intersects. The development in road infrastructure in this part is not adequate to accompany high number of vehicles in this zone. There is not much infrastructure development in this part. As cities grow in an impromptu manner, no plan is made towards measuring road volume, which sooner or later results in several bottleneck roads, which remain congested for extended periods of time [1]. The congestion problem is a common problem among developed and underdeveloped countries; so, it‘s a global problem [2]. The traffic congestion leads to other kinds of problems especially in big cities, according to a study conducted in cities of Sweden the traffic jam caused a noise pollution too [3]. Other studies showed that development in any county in the world is not perfect if traffic congestion results big economic costs [4]. Traffic congestion is easily causing traffic jams. a traffic jam occurs when vehicles are fully stopped for a long period of time [5]. The objective of this study is to find the real cause behind the traffic congestion between the roads and to conclude possible solution for the problem. 2. AREA UNDER CONSIDERATION The study area has two roads that is from A to B whose length is 4.2 Km, and the other is from C to D whose length is 9.8 Km, these locations are marked in fig. 1. The width of road from A to B is of 24m and the road from C to D is of 18m. The places where respective points are marked, these places have vast IT parks, presence of three SEZ‘s in those areas and two huge residential townships which are Amanora park town and Magarpatta city. Due to the presence of IT parks and residential zones, there is a huge amount of traffic movement during morning and evening hours and they all get struck at Mundhwa Junction. Besides that the main road is a city highways as well, which is known as NH-9 (National Highways no.9), on this main road large freight vehicles also move. The vehicles on this route have been estimated to be about 48000, which are passing in 24 hrs. Period from both side and successively increasing by 5-10% every year. The major reason for choosing this area is challenge in itself, which involves land, financial & traffic issues and the surrounding environment. Figure 1 Site selection ___________________________  Shubham S Nayak – Department of Civil Engineering, Dr. D.Y. Patil Institute of Technology,Pimpri,Pune,India. E: 15510697.dypit@dypvp.edu.in, P: +919823271329.  Onkar B Patil - Department of Civil Engineering, Dr. D.Y. Patil Institute of Technology,Pimpri,Pune,India. E: onkarpatil.2010@gmail.com, P: +919769264342  Neha S Panjabi - Department of Civil Engineering, Dr. D.Y. Patil Institute of Technology,Pimpri,Pune,India E: nehapanjabi038@gmail.com, P: +918007047580  Arati L Ohol - Department of Civil Engineering, Dr. D.Y. Patil Institute of Technology,Pimpri,Pune,India. E: arati2408.o@gmail.com, P: +917066779669  Deepa A Joshi - Department of Civil Engineering, Dr. D.Y. Patil Institute of Technology,Pimpri,Pune,India. E: hodcivil.dit@dypvp.edu.in, P: +919850795686