Mass Rapid Transit System Related Urban Development of Existing Core Areas of a City: Establishing Relevance of a Research Work

Abstract

Mass Rapid Transit System (MRTS) has created a significant impact on Urban development in the core areas of cities and has been running along important movement corridors, especially in and around these areas resulting in a deterioration of the overall spatial/physical environment. As a result, these areas require immediate intervention to rectify the problems, as well as to arrest any further deterioration. This again requires a research work to understand these developments in selected core areas of a city. Accordingly, in this paper an attempt has been made to establish the relevance of this research work, in a structured format.