Briefs

India: Trends in Passenger Transportation

Here’s a poster I presented at the STEPS symposium in UC Davis on the topic:

Poster-Trends in Passenger Cars fleet in India

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India is known to have the largest share of 2-wheelers (which are widely used for personal travel and commercial activities). And then there are tuk-tuks (auto rickshaws),  unique and ubiquitous vehicles

% passenger miles traveled in 4-wheelers is significant now and will be even more in future

census shows an increase in % of households with LDVs

Right now India is the fifth largest car market and has the potential to become one of the top three in the near future – with about 400 million customers in need of mobility solutions by the year 2030.

So it does make sense to study how does the current average fleet look like:

As compared to other modes,

LDVs are doing well in terms of Specific Energy Consumption

this can be attributed to 1. better utilization and 2.relative occupancy

Key point:

And Passenger Cars are cleaner than expected!

India needs to maintain to follow with stricter regulations. But let’s see how this might have happened, starting with the policies involved.

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