Exploring the Commercial Performance of Self-organized Mixed-Use Streets in Delhi

With growing urbanization, our cities require efficient planning measures and infrastructure upgradation to maintain a fine balance between growth and sustainability. In this regard mixed-use development has become an essential component of various planning movements like Smart Growth, New Urbanism and significantly influences the interaction between land use and transportation. In case of Indian cities, mixed-use development has taken place in incremental ways where people have changed and used their residential units in commercial developments, creating multifunctional areas hosting different economic activities including informal activities. Such self-organized development is mostly influenced by high level of local accessibility and consumption demands of retail and services at neighborhood level. This study focuses on both planned and unplanned residential areas of North-West Delhi, where survey of selected mixed-use streets is conducted, and ordinal logistic regression-based model is developed to understand the relationship between customer attraction and type of commercial activities, clustering of commercial activities, mixed-use characteristics, and road network connectivity indices. Results of this study can be further utilized in framing policies for transport and pedestrian infrastructure, travel demand assessment along with planning for catchment areas of transit-oriented development for Indian cities.