[sustran] Re: Per capita boardings on public transport 1995

[Kisan Mehta]

Dear Colleagues and Iain,

Thanks, Iain, for the statistics on population, total annual and per
capita journeys arrived at, possibly, by dividing total annual
journeys by population of many cities of the world.

We were looking fto comparing daily journeys by a road bus service.
The UITP figures are important though but not in our context. I was
a UITP member in the early '70s but have lost touch long back.

I was lookig at Mumbai's figures. Population data are easily available.
The population of Greater Mumbai at the last count (Census of India
2001) is shown as 11.91 million while the UITP table shows 17.08
million.   The municipalised BEST bus service, operating mainly
within Great Mumbai provides 4.6 million journeys a day while the
surban train service operating within Mumbai metropolitan region
provides slightly over 10 million journeys a day which is roghly
equivalent ot 40% of the total journeys provided by the Indian
Railways throughout the country. This would indicate heavy
reliance on bus and rail transport facility in Mumbai. You may like
to check whether the UITP total journey figures tally with the daily
4.6 million journeys.

Public transport comprising of bus and suburban rail services
account for 88% of Mumbai's total journeys.  The World Bank
felt, it appears, bad on so much reliance on public transport hence
it has placed a number of unconscienable conitionalities on the
BEST authorites that would cut down the extent of services and
increase the fare by 30-40%. To reduce 88 on public transport to
87% and to raise the increase personal vehicle use from 7% to
8%, the Bank has extended liberal loans for expressway
construction.

 This is how the Bank wants to reduce poverty!

Kisan Mehta
Tel/Fax: 00 91 2414 9688


----- Original Message -----
From: <knebworth at iinet.net.au>
To: <kisansbc at vsnl.com>
Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 4:22 PM
Subject: Per capita boardings on public transport 1995


> Kisan
>
I have just read your email on the Sustram network and yet again some very
interesting comments from Mumbia. I have extracted some data from the
following reference and work undertaken by for UITP in 1995/96: Kenworthy,
J. R. and Laube, F. B., (2001). Millennium Cities Database for Sustainable
Transport, International Union (Association) for Public Transport (UITP),
Brussels, CD-ROM database. These data are for 1995/96 and for 83 cities
in this data set. They are arranged in order of total annual public
transport
boardings per capita. Here public transport is buses, trains, trams and
ferries in each city where appropriate.
>
 The true comparison is per capita rather than just direct numbers. I hope
you find the MS Xcel document of interest.
>
> Regards


> Iain Cameron
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