Page 46 - TT Magazine Feb-Mar 2019
P. 46
PUBLIC TRANSPORT
With the new
emerging technology right like improving the efficiency of people and one shoe fitting everybody
how do we look at buses by showing some small quick is not possible. We have been using
same size of buses, same scheduling,
wins, empowering the STUs to take
the entire range bold decisions and ensuring that fund same frequency for the last 70 years
from two-wheeler, flow from the government to STU is and we are not changing that in a
fear that if we change, everything will
happening. If we start showing some
three-wheeler & four- operational improvements, the public collapse.
“I believe that first right of refusal
wheeler as a taxi to will feel confident. Showing operational to be given to STUs; if they are unable
improvements is the first need.”
small bus, big bus Shah agreed that it makes sense to start that kind of services then that
& a bigger bus and to start with a small beginning like should be given to private operators.
a metro? How can aggregating data across the different And we must forget about this operator-
focussed planning whether that
bodies or collaborating. “We see this
they all merge in a in some metros where the STU is operator is public or private it has to be
continuum kind of trying to create feeder routes for the neutral. A body or city or government
needs to look at public transport as a
metro. So, finding some singular use
system? I think if you case that can create a platform for transport which is on sharing basis and
don’t look at it that collaboration between the different which is for everybody; whoever runs it
really does not matter as long as that
transport bodies is the first step. Let
way, we would have a them also interact with each other service has quality, safety and security.
“Talking about integration of data.
much bigger problem and then expand that to larger goals. I can refer to Delhi Metro. Buses are
Forget about integrating between
in the time to come. multiple modes, today even private owned by Delhi Metro. We operate
We do have some buses are not allowed to go near 500 those buses, our data is not integrated,
metres of public transport. So, we are
we do not have opportunity to stand
clues if we look at talking about integration on one side next to a railway station’s platform
Transport for London in multimodal, here within mode itself and it is their own service. There is
integration is not happening. There is
no efforts to see that passengers are
(TFL) no one single bus station from where seamlessly transferred form one mode
intercity, intracity, private, public, all to another. So, integration is very
Prof HM Shivanand kinds of buses can be accessed. So, first difficult to happen.”
Swamy thing we need to do is to come out of Prof Swamy said that UMTA has
this mindset. “ to be a planner in terms of strategy
There are multiple ways to service planning -- what kind of systems one
46 February - March ’19 / TrafficInfraTech www.trafficinfratech-com-500653.hostingersite.com
