Only an efficient public transport system can reduce the usage of personal vehicles
Statistics have been conspicuously crowned as the king of lies. But the fact is that there is no other logical way to prove truth other than the damn statistics. Figures don’t lie and they definitely don’t when we say that lack of proper public transit systems and infrastructure leads to high usage of private cars in India.
This trend is most visible in urban areas. For instance, Delhi has a very high rate of migration. While the population continues to rise, the city has seen a marginal rise in the number of buses in the last four years. Result: the rise in personal vehicles has been 100%. China was facing the same problem till 2006. To solve this, they came up with Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) lines in 2006. The system has been a run away hit and presently 50% of the all the trips in Chinese cities are done through public transport, majority of which are through buses. On the same lines, BRT has been started in India but is still in the trial phase and its future remains uncertain. Japan is another classic case of this trend. The market for new cars in Japan has shrunk from 7.78 million in 1990 to just 4.13 million in 2007. The reason for this is lack of proper parking facilities and the efficient public transportation in Japanese cities.
Not that high number of cars is a bad thing, but too many of them create problems. Pollution, accidents, jams are just to name a few. Indian city roads on an average occupy 12-14% of total land area. It’s 10% in Mumbai and 6% in Kolkata. The same roads carry more and more vehicles which lead to jams and accidents.
Statistics have been conspicuously crowned as the king of lies. But the fact is that there is no other logical way to prove truth other than the damn statistics. Figures don’t lie and they definitely don’t when we say that lack of proper public transit systems and infrastructure leads to high usage of private cars in India.
This trend is most visible in urban areas. For instance, Delhi has a very high rate of migration. While the population continues to rise, the city has seen a marginal rise in the number of buses in the last four years. Result: the rise in personal vehicles has been 100%. China was facing the same problem till 2006. To solve this, they came up with Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) lines in 2006. The system has been a run away hit and presently 50% of the all the trips in Chinese cities are done through public transport, majority of which are through buses. On the same lines, BRT has been started in India but is still in the trial phase and its future remains uncertain. Japan is another classic case of this trend. The market for new cars in Japan has shrunk from 7.78 million in 1990 to just 4.13 million in 2007. The reason for this is lack of proper parking facilities and the efficient public transportation in Japanese cities.
Not that high number of cars is a bad thing, but too many of them create problems. Pollution, accidents, jams are just to name a few. Indian city roads on an average occupy 12-14% of total land area. It’s 10% in Mumbai and 6% in Kolkata. The same roads carry more and more vehicles which lead to jams and accidents.
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri
and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
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