Higher traffic growth rates have resulted in the environment getting severely polluted. Indian metropolitan cities are already facing certain challenges with severe traffic congestion and pollution. Developed countries have devised different solutions to protect the environment and natural resources like fossil fuels. Some of them paid off and some did not. Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) is being proposed as one of solutions for this problem which has already met with a higher degree of success. Economical, efficient, zero pollution levels and safety are the few aspects which make PRT more acceptable than other conventional modes of intermediate transportation system. This paper discusses about the application of PRT in Indian cities in general and in particular its feasibility for Visakhapatnam city -one of the fastest growing cities in India. It already faces serious traffic problems. On the contrary, it is one of the most polluted cities in India (Numbeo, 2017). Visakhapatnam recorded an average vehicular growth rate of more than 10% per annum during 2009-2017. Consequently, more than half a million people of the city preferred to travel on public transport, and another one million people travelled using private modes of transport. Hence, it is feasible to implement the personal rapid transit system in Visakhapatnam.
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