Public Transport Perception

In India, roads are designed as per the needs of the private automobile user. This is clearly a one sided approach and partially the reason behind which there are maximum road transport hurdles.

The solution to clear road related transport issues is by simply looking at the number of people travelling in public transport versus number of individuals using private vehicles against the given utilized capacity of that vehicle at a given point of time. On average in Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata and Bangalore 45% of the trips are less than 5 kilo meters. This proves threat to available land space for modes of public transport.

 Delhi BRT

In Kolkata 6% of land is under land network and in Delhi it is 21% of the land space. So for example, in Delhi, average speed of vehicles is 11 kilo meters an hour though for the Bus Rapid Transit system the average speed is 20 kilo meters an hour. This might not be a great comparison though with 75% vehicles being privately owned in Delhi, this only caters to 33% of the population and this is a reason to invest in the improvement of public transport infrastructure.