Urban population of India is increasing day by day. The amount of traffic all cities are exponentially raising and along with poor traffic planning this leads to a chaos. In order to develop various cities in India, Smart City Mission was introduced by the Government of India. One such city is Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, South India. The traffic congestion in the city has reached its peak and the number of vehicles coming into the city has risen. This study aims in proposing a route for a ring

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... d connecting all the major roads of Coimbatore, which would reduce the traffic coming in to the city. For this study concept of remote sensing, GIS and AHP have been used. The maps corresponding to population, land-use land-cover, slope, guideline value, location of roads, schools and colleges, depth of ground water table for Coimbatore city were prepared. Using the weightages for different criteria from AHP, Site suitability map was created. From the site suitability map, inner and outer ring roads were proposed. This article is based on the undergraduate project done by the authors [1].