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Promoting Circular Waterway Transport System for Recreational Water Environments and Integrated Urban Transportation Systems in Rajshahi City, Bangladesh

Version 1 : Received: 7 September 2022 / Approved: 8 September 2022 / Online: 8 September 2022 (05:44:43 CEST)

How to cite: Das, A.; Haque, S. Promoting Circular Waterway Transport System for Recreational Water Environments and Integrated Urban Transportation Systems in Rajshahi City, Bangladesh. Preprints 2022, 2022090118. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202209.0118.v1 Das, A.; Haque, S. Promoting Circular Waterway Transport System for Recreational Water Environments and Integrated Urban Transportation Systems in Rajshahi City, Bangladesh. Preprints 2022, 2022090118. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202209.0118.v1

Abstract

Rajshahi, blessed by the geographical advantage provided by the river Padma, is a beautiful and one of the cleanest cities in Bangladesh. It presents a spectacular image and stunning sight to its residents. But Rapid urbanization created immense pressure on the infrastructures and cityscape by rescinding most of the natural assets and scenic beauty it possessed historically. The growing pressure of population influx accompanied by unplanned urbanization threatens the survival of its waterbodies, wetlands, and greeneries, which many other contemporary cities strive to achieve with hard-hearted planning measures. Moreover, the city suffers from inadequate provision of quality outdoor recreational facilities. Yet because of the verdant resources, it still can set an example of becoming green and fluid landscape. There are scopes to connect the city people to the urban landscape and blue-green infrastructures by applying proper planning and urban design techniques. For example, it can explore the potential and scope of a water-based transportation system to create outdoor recreation space for city dwellers as well as a transport mode in the city. This SECTION discusses the prospects and potential of enhancing recreational aspects of Circular Inland Waterways. It also analyzes the benefits of a network of waterways well-connected and integrated with the existing conventional transportation system to reduce pressure on land transport and promote a sustainable system. This research was conducted in two phases each involving a distinct approach. The first one was a macroscopic approach to probe the potential of the water transport system in Rajshahi city. The required data on traffic volume, traffic growth rate, roads and existing waterbodies were collected, and GIS and Remote Sensing tools were used to find the scope of waterway transport around Rajshahi City. In the second approach, a detailed design was proposed for a potential circular waterway network in the city. Results indicate that there is a huge prospect for introducing a circular waterway transport system around Rajshahi city to create a place of fluid landscape and minimize the pressure on the existing land transportation system.

Keywords

Circular Waterways; Outdoor recreation facilities; fluid landscape paradise; Blue-Green Infra-structure

Subject

Engineering, Transportation Science and Technology

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