Public Transport Planning and Management in Developing Countries

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Public Transport Planning and Management in Developing Countries

speeds are expected to fall to single digits by 2031 (refer to Table 1.10). Also, as per an

interesting finding from MOUD report on calculating congestion index of 30 cities of India

(Figure 1.7), it is concluded that 0.25 is the average congestion index on a scale of 0-0.6

where 0 indicates good and 0.6 indicates poor index value, and most of the major metro

cities fair very badly on the congestion index with its value much higher than the average.

Here, the congestion index is calculated as (1- x/y), where x is observed speed and