According to the Economic Survey of Delhi 2017-18, the total number of motor vehicles on roads was 103.83 lakh till…
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According to the Economic Survey of Delhi 2017-18, the total number of motor vehicles on roads was 103.83 lakh till 31 March 2017, registering a growth of 6.99 per cent over the previous year.
It meant that Delhi had 556 motor vehicles per 1,000 people or every second person in the city owned a vehicle.
Cars and jeeps accounted for more than 30 per cent of the registered vehicles, whereas two-wheelers comprised about 64 per cent, the survey said.
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The number of buses ~ city’s biggest mode of public transport ~ grew only by 2.45 per cent during the same period. However, the transport officials said that the fleet of buses was expected to go up by at least 1,000 in 2018 as tender for them had been floated.
There was, however, also an apparent paradox in the Economic Survey. According to it a large number of vehicles registered in Delhi were plying in NCR areas. Conversely, vehicles registered in national capital region were plying in Delhi.
“The Transport Department is making efforts to estimate the actual number of vehicles in Delhi by taking into account those vehicles that have outlived their life or transferred to and from other states,” the survey said.
Report stated that during the last decade the percentage of households using scooters and motorcycles increased from 28 per cent in 2001 to 38.90 per cent in 2011.
During the same period, the percentage of households using cars, jeeps and vans as the mode of transportation in the city also increased from 13 per cent to 20.7 per cent, it said.
Contrary to this, the percentage of households using bicycle as the mode of transport declined from 37.6 per cent in 2001 to 30.6 per cent in 2011, it said.
Buses and Metro account for main public transport in the city with the latter having a ridership of 28 lakh per day.
The Metro ridership is expected to increase by up to 40 lakh per day after completion of the DMRC’s Phase-III, the survey said.
The Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC), which runs 4,027 buses, carries 32 lakh passengers per day on an average.
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