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PUBLIC TRANSPORT

Towards Operational

Efficiency with technology

and more technology

State Road Transport Undertakings have a big role

to play in the mobility of people – interstate and
intrastate. Technologies like ITS, Telematics, Vehicle
safety, Communication, Routing & Scheduling, etc are

increasingly being implemented for seamless travel
by SRT buses, states R R K Kishore, Director (Technical),
Association of State Road Transport Undertakings.

owever, the the quality of public transport. In the System is available in all city buses
operational rural areas, there is a lot of scope (6500) operated by BMTC and
efficiency depends to introduce ITS implementation to the long distance night services.
mainly on the improve the operational quality and Similarly, in Andhra Pradesh state
health of the buses to plug the service deficiencies. also, Vehicle Locating Devices are
Hand roads, good functioning in all its 12,000 buses.
connectivity to rural and semi-rural “The OEMs customise the Further, APSRTC has successfully
areas, technology deployed, trained technology add-ons like passenger introduced Unified Ticketing System
drivers, convenient scheduling etc. information system or destination (UTS) which is passenger friendly
board inside or outside the
“The Association of State Road buses (taking care of font size, and commuters are fully satisfied.”
Transport Undertakings (ASRTU) language, duration details etc). Kishore added that under the
has programs and initiatives to Many STUs are doing very good Special Purpose Vehicles that
enhance productivity and efficiency fleet management. Delhi Transport have come up in the recent years,
of STUs. We have 80 SRTUs with Corporation is having 7000 buses cities like Indore, Bhopal, Jaipur,
us. Collectively, these member and have implemented ITS in all Amritsar and Chandigarh, operate
undertakings have nearly 1,50,000 the buses. Telangana State Road buses equipped with ITS solutions.
buses of which 35,000 buses are Transport Corporation is operating “ASRTU has nearly 50,000 buses
city operating buses. Most of the city nearly 2700 buses in Hyderabad city operating in rural areas and we are
operating buses, some 30,000 plus, and almost 90 percent of TSRTC trying to implement ITS in these”
have a few ITS solutions like Vehicle buses in the city have Passenger Apart from this, there are the
Locating and Tracking Devices Information System. And in ticketing solutions also. Except
(VLTD), mobile apps, etc to improve Karnataka Passenger Information for Tamil Nadu, all the states have
electronic ticket issuing machines.
Very soon Tamil Nadu also will
go in for electronic ticket issuing
machines. The other initiative is
the implementation of National
Common Mobility Card or open
loop card. Some of the STUs have
implemented the NCMC which
is one card that is acceptable
throughout the nation for any
transit or paratransit purposes.

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