- Railways account for 70% of journeys via season tickets in Mumbai, with ridership expected to remain steady until 2020-2021. Metro ridership is currently 0.3 million trips per week day and growing 5% annually. Buses have the largest ridership at 3.5 million daily trips, with 20% using season tickets. - Several infrastructure projects are upcoming like coastal roads, a high-speed rail, and expanding the metro system to over 200km. This is needed to address Mumbai's growing population and traffic issues. - Solutions proposed include double-decker trains to increase capacity without energy costs, an elevated express railway, and controlled expansion outwards as the city grows.

2. • RAILWAYS- KEY STATISTICS
❖ 70% of the journeys completed through season tickets
❖ Around 30-40% of the suburban rail commuters uses other motorized transport modes (primarily
bus and autos) to connect and from the railway stations
❖ Ridership saturated likely to be same till 2020 - 21
❖ Average ticket s 7.5 million daily trip size of each journey is in slab of 05-20 Kms
❖ Railways- Existing Ticketing System
❖ Fare Medium:- Paper and Mobile
❖ Tickets Ticketing Channels, Ticket Counters, ATVMs, Online and Mobile App
❖ Payment Type Cash, Smartcard, Credit/ Debit cards, Mobile Wallets
❖ Inspection mechanism Spot checking at the station and inside the trains

3. • METRO- KEY STATISTICS
❖ 0.3 million trips on a week day
❖ Per annum ridership growth is 5%
❖ New metro lines expected to be operational by 2024-2025
❖ The overall daily ridership expected to increase to 1.2-1.5 million by 2025
❖ No season tickets available, only Pay As You Go (PAYG)
METRO- EXISTING TICKETING SYSTEM
❖ Fare Medium Smartcards and tokens
❖ Ticketing Channels Ticket Counters, TVMs, Online and Mobile App
❖ Payment Type Cash, Credit/ Debit cards, Mobile Wallets
❖ Inspection mechanism Gated system, No inspection required

4. BUSES- KEY STATISTICS
❖ 7 Bus Operators in Mumbai Metropolitan Region
❖ 3.5 million daily trips
❖ BEST Undertaking is the largest Bus Operator in the city with ~2.8 million daily trips
❖ Around 20% of the trips completed through season tickets
❖ Around 10 % of the suburban rail commuters use bus to connect and from the railway stations
❖ Estimated growth of 15% per annum
BUSES- EXISTING TICKETING SYSTEM
❖ Fare Medium Paper Tickets, Smartcards and Mobile
❖ Tickets Ticketing Channels Ticket Counters, ETMs with conductors and Mobile App
❖ Payment Type Cash, Credit/ Debit cards and Mobile Wallets
❖ Inspection mechanism Spot checking inside and outside the buses

5. UPCOMING PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS
NEED
Mumbai is financial capital and commercial centre of India. The growing
vehicular population, consequent traffic congestion and traffic slow down is
making public transit facilities inadequate. The biggest and most convenient
public transport, the suburban local trains, also presented a congested face
affecting the city's image. So there is a need of infrastructural upgradation.
UPCOMING INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS
• Mumbai Trans Harbour Link
• Navi Mumbai International Airport
• Mumbai Coastal Road
• Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor

6. UPCOMING PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS
• Mumbai Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail
• Goregaon-Mulund Link Road
• Planned underground tunnel between Borivali and Thane
• The 14 lines of the Mumbai metro are spread across more than 200 km, with a
further 21.289 km coverage approved and 136.4 km under the proposal. Of
this, 11.4 km are operational while 169.061 km is under construction.

7. Issues in Public Transportation System of
Mumbai
• With 20-22 million residents, the city
is projected to grow by another 6-8
million by 2030.
• The shortfall in capacity.
• excessive crowds on the trains
the lives of more than 36,000
the decade up to 2012, translating to
more than 10 people a day.

8. Solutions
Purchasing Double-Decker Train sets
• Double-decker trains provide a
percent increase in carrying
without significantly increasing
energy needed to pull the trains.
• Indian Railways already
double-decker trains in the form
several long-distance services,
as the Bengaluru-Chennai
Decker Express.

9. Solutions
Building an Express Railway on Top of the
Current Suburban Network
• Mumbai Suburban Railway already
significant piece of land in central
the form of rail tracks and stations.
• Construct a parallel, elevated railway on
the existing tracks
• Furthermore, elevated tracks can be
existing roads and even houses without
need for land acquisitions.

10. Solutions
Reasonable Expansion Further to Rural Hinterlands
• Extensions of the rail lines should only be
suitable measures to provide enough capacity to
extra traffic.
• Extra land should be acquired at the time of
• Businesses move outside central Mumbai, fewer
Mumbaikars will need to commute long distances,
reducing overcrowding on the suburban trains.

11. References
• Sahai, Vivek (2006), “Mumbai Suburban Rail Network: An
Overview,” presented at the International Conference on
Alternative Technologies for Public Transport, Institute of
Urban Transport, New Delhi, India.
HTUwww.iutindia.org/pdf/rt/Vivek%20SahaiMumbai%20
Urban%20Rail.pdfUTH
• https://portal.mcgm.gov.in/irj/go/km/docs/documents/
MCGM%20Department%20List/Ro
• “Public Transport Subsidies and Affordability in Mumbai,
India” Maureen Cropper, Soma Bhattacharya
• https://mmrda.maharashtra.gov.in/mumbai-urban-
transport-project1
• amasaamy, N. (2006), “A Quick Review of STUs (2005-
06),” Indian Journal of Transport Management, April-June
2006.