Increasing mode share of bus transport in Indian cities

The cities in India are now encountering urbanization, improving motor transportation and expanding traffic jam. People in urban areas are not living in a high quality community because of the decreased in public transportation and spending funds for building construction that develop a car culture by constructing road and flyovers. The upcoming years need to center their attention on accurate and improving the expansion of system. It is important to establish a new strategy for operational, infrastructural, technological, marketing, and financing to improve the procedure of public buses in the upcoming years. In order for the cities to be habitable and comfortable, the public transportation like bus and rapid transit (BRT) systems must become an essential part of urban growth.

In the year 2005, buses as public transportation in the cities have a percentage of 90% and it is inexpensive and convenient means of transportation. A total of 35,000 buses in India are functioning for service. Eighty percent of these buses are operating in big cities like Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, and Pune.

An experimentation study and bus renovation in the past years have strengthen that the systems for city bus will still be the backbone of urban flexibility in India for they in practical cost, more able to be upheld and easy to achieve compare to other infrastructure mass transport systems like metros.

P. Mulukutla