Waysde amenity centre nh-48, delhi- jaipur expressway, Manesar (Gurgaon), Haryana

Abstract

Wayside Amenity Centres act as multipurpose facilities along the highways and district roads for the purpose of providing a safe stopping point with essential amenities to all highway commuters during their journey. These complexes are located at frequent intervals across major roadways, providing basic services, to ensure a safe and convenient journey for long-distance travellers. Presently, more than a thousand such amenities are proposed across the country. MoRTH along with the NHAI have called for a private participation on a franchise basis to develop many such establishments. Private land owners having sufficient land area can join hands with NHAI to develop wayside amenities as a franchise of the authority under the brand names ‘Highway Village’ and ‘Highway Nest’. Wayside Amenity Centres are envisaged as complexes providing a variety of services and suitable resting space to commuters with fuel stations being an integral part of the facilities. However, the amalgamation of several market and consumer trends is fundamentally changing the fuel retail industry around the globe and placing additional pressure on profitability and relevance of fuel stations altogether. The next decade will observe dramatic changes in the fuel retail industry as a result of the emergence of alternative fuel types, advanced mobility models, improving technology, added regulatory and competitive pressures, evolving market trends and increasingly complex product patterns. The pace of change will continue to accelerate and strain legacy processes, systems, knowledge, and skills. Inferences derived from the live and secondary case studies theorize key takeaways and fallacies for the comprehensive design of a fully equipped Wayside Amenities Centre and concludes that factors such as new adjacent value pools, improved services and consumer experience seem to have a highly proportional relationship to the success of a transformed and enhanced fuel station. This thesis project puts forth a proposal for a fully functional Wayside Amenity Centre in sync with the local context, site and climatic conditions of the region with an efficient network of services keeping in mind the various functional provisions proposed on-site to serve all travellers on the Delhi-Jaipur Expressway and inhabitants in the neighbouring region of Manesar. A comprehensive, functional and logical design is aimed at by analysing all the key parameters through the live and literature case studies of similar kind. The thesis report showcases the detailed design methodology from site selection to the final design proposal for the commercial project.