{"id":625970,"date":"2024-01-03T09:38:07","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T04:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=625970"},"modified":"2024-01-03T10:00:48","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T04:30:48","slug":"metros-in-india-have-less-than-50-projected-ridership-says-iit-d-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/metros-in-india-have-less-than-50-projected-ridership-says-iit-d-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Metros in India have less than 50% projected ridership, says IIT-D report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ridership on all metro rail networks in India is less than 50 per cent of their projected ridership, said a report by IIT-Delhi and Delhi-based think tank The Infravision Foundation. <\/p>\n<p>In its report titled &#8216;A framework for selecting an appropriate urban transport system in Indian cities&#8217;, the think tank said that ridership of most metro rail systems in India is 25-30 per cent of projected ridership \u2014 ridership forecast as mentioned in the Detailed Project Report (DPR) which outlines the intended objectives of a project. The only exception was the Delhi metro, which has a ridership equal to 47.45 per cent of its projected ridership, it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ridership on all metro rail networks in India is less than 50 per cent of their projected ridership, said a report by IIT-Delhi and Delhi-based think tank The Infravision Foundation. In its report titled &#8216;A framework for selecting an appropriate urban transport system in Indian cities&#8217;, the think tank said that ridership of most metro rail systems in India is 25-30 per cent of projected ridership \u2014 ridership forecast as mentioned in the Detailed Project Report (DPR) which outlines the intended objectives of a project. The only exception was the Delhi metro, which has a ridership equal to 47.45 per [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,256],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-625970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-railways-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}