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South Gate, Auroville

A Mobility & Transit Hub Project

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Auroville Mobility

The Auroville Master Plan, in its “goals and objectives”

concerning traffic states: “Determining the hierarchy of

roads and access ways, particularly emphasising where

non-polluting movement should take precedence over

general traffic.” Based on the Master Plan‘s general

considerations on traffic, especially the aim of giving

preference to non-polluting movement, a network of roads

and pathways has been proposed - The Crown containing

the city center, the Radials connecting to the Outer Ring

Road and the Outer Ring Road containing the city.

Auroville aims to be completely motor-vehicle free,

however, in phases progressively from the city center

outward.

At the four junctions of the four entrances into the four

zones of Auroville, there are planned Secondary Service

Nodes. The main function of these nodes is to act as

mobility transit zones, where visitors and residents will

switch from fossil-fuel vehicles to e-vehicles or

non-polluting mode of transport or public transport. A

shuttle bus system will have to be put into place to

effectuate the transition.

The Southern Service Node (SSN) or South Gate has now

been developed as the first of the four secondary service

nodes that will model this mobility and transit hub.

SOUTHERN SERVICE

NODE / SOUTH GATE