new delhi the effect of the oddeven scheme on curbing air pollution is yet to be analysed but it has definitely reduced congestion on the roads initial findings of a survey being carried out by school of planning and architecture spa show that travel time has reduced by 2538 depending upon the areaspa had carried out similar surveys during the first two editions of the road rationing scheme in the first edition it had found out that not only had traffic volume reduced but there was a higher occupancy of cars and a slight shift towards public transport traffic flow had decreased by 816 at different places the occupancy of cars had gone up from an average of 14 persons per car to 2sewa ram professor of transport planning at spa said our findings suggest that there has been a reduction of 2538 in travel time since the oddeven scheme was implemented if we take into account major traffic corridors the results vary while the travel time from ghaziabad to delhi hasnt reduced it is significant on the gurgaondelhi corridor and other hubs such as rohini and dwarka for instance travel time from cyber city in gurgaon to ito in delhi has reduced from 120 minutes to 80 minuteseven a 10 reduction in traffic volume improves the driving experience in the city spa is monitoring traffic and travel patterns three times a day in different parts of the city we will analyse the overall data after the scheme is over to come to a conclusion sewa ram saidtraffic police said there has been a drop in traffic volume by 1517 in the past two days especially because of cng vehicles not being exempted this time the number of calls regarding traffic jams have also dipped by about 20suresh bhatt a noidabased businessman was in for a surprise when he drove into the capital on monday i had to visit areas like karol bagh and lajpat nagar for work it was a total breeze i dont remember when was the last time i enjoyed driving in delhi on a monday he saidhimani mehta a saket resident said there are multiple choke points on the way to my office at ito and the journey takes about 70 minutes since monday i have been completing this journey in just 45 minutes