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Transferability best practices in operation and maintenance are considered very essential for this kind of
a programme.
SRTC has pioneered in introduction of city bus services in medium and small cities
Kwith 9 buses at Tumkur city in February 2011 in India. This initiative has changed the Media references
urban public transport scenario in the country and was the basic reason contributing to ampling of Global Case Studies Highlighting Innovative Approaches to Sustainability in
the formation of urban transport policy of the Government of India for providing city bus SUrban Areas has been published by World Bank Group.
services in medium and small cities.
“Santos, Valerie; Gashi, Drilon; Armendaris, Fernando. 2015. What Makes a Sustainable
Initiatives and the methodology of introduction of city services and learnings accrued from City? : Sampling of Global Case Studies Highlighting Innovative Approaches to Sustainability
this can be replicated for taking up similar organized city bus services in other Indian cities. in Urban Areas. World Bank, Washington, DC. © World Bank. https://openknowledge.
Success of this has led to plan bus services in other 30 cities of Karnataka. The semi-floor worldbank.org/handle/10986/23580 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”
bus design engineered and deployed by KSRTC has been recognized by the Ministry of National Media Meet was organised in February 2017 to demonstrate the successful
Housing & Urban Affairs, Government of India, as a model for other cities to replicate. functioning of city buses which were ITS enabled in Mysore city. The Times of India –
Lesson learnt Bangalore; the Indian Express – Delhi; The New Indian Express- Bhubaneshwar; the Dainik
Bhaskar – Bhopal; the Dainik Jagran – Chandigarh; the Rajasthan Patrika – Indore; the
egarding lessons from this project, it is to state that proper project preparation in terms Haribhoomi – Naya Raipur and the Hindustan Times – Delhi representatives interacted
Rof route planning, bus design, participatory processes, fare fixation, revenue model and with the public and covered the event.

Before deployment of the project, set of questions that were before the Authority were: city buses required for Tier-II cities?
• Whether sustained city bus operation can be introduced in the cities having • City Buses can be taken only for few high density routes in these cities. What should
population of 3 or below 3 lakhs? be the methodology of route identification?
• If so, can the city operations be viable and can they generate sufficient revenue to • What should be the frequency of the city bus operations and how can the bus
take care of operation, maintenance and depreciation costs? scheduling be taken up?
• Considering the constraints on capital expenditure, which has to be borne by the • What is the extent of need and necessity to which infrastructure from the local
operator (KSRTC) itself, what minimum configuration of components in the city Municipal Corporation would be necessary, particularly in setting up the bus
buses can be put together, so as to optimize capital costs? shelters and bus stop signages ?
• Whether add-ons like destination sign boards and next stop announcement • Estimating how many number of city buses that may be required for city bus
systems, which lead to additional costs, would be good value for money and would operations - number of city buses less than the optimum would be insufficient
promote and encourage modal shift to public transport?
for modal shift to public transport, and number more than optimum may lead to
• To what extent the provisions of Urban Bus Body Code can be incorporated in such increased cost of operations, making the project unviable.

ITS: An Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) is an advanced application which, without of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) in city bus systems helps agencies to improve
embodying intelligence as such, aims to provide innovative services relating to different services by improving the reliability and efficiency of operations. Through data analysis,
modes of transport and traffic management and enable users to be better informed and agencies can provide better information to passengers, improve in-house resource
make safer, more coordinated, and ‘smarter’ use of transport networks. The application productivity and take concrete decisions for overall operations and management.

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