Essay On Urban Population Growth

Overall population growth and increasing urbanization have led to the rapid growth of large cities, which have been dealing by the sudden jump in travel demand. As per the provisional census estimates, the urban population growth in India would range from about 550 million to around 600 million by 2030. Such growth rate will add severe transportation problems to our cities which are already lagging in terms of transport infrastructure and services.

Our cities experience a huge difference between the growth rates of public transport and private transport. Public transport has not grown if compared to the growth of private transport. Now since cities are facing rapid growth in population and land area, the demand for public transport services

1.2. Need of the study

Currently, there are three main modes of financing in urban transport: income generated from fare box collections, revenues from non-transport commercial activities, and government subsidies. Public Transport, in India, is State and city’s responsibility. States and cities do not have enough resources to fund huge capital intensive public transport projects.

The major source of revenue for an Urban Local Body is Municipal Taxes which are very meagre. This leads to huge share of central funds towards any urban transport project.

Public transport systems in cities in India are largely bus-based and operated by public agencies. The revenues of most public transport organizations are recovered through fare box collections, advertisements and license fee from various types of direct use beneficiaries. Even real estate development along the corridor can be undertaken by the project developers as a source for meeting the funding operations. Since other benefits mostly relate to public good, there is a definite role for public institutions such as local government, state transport undertakings and other state government institutions to apply different types of tax and non-tax