Essay On Informal Public Transport

If formal public transport is inadequate, then rich people will use private automobiles in the form of cars, motorcycles etc., relatively poor people will shit to bicycle, then to two wheelers (motorcycles in Vietnam and Indonesia), then to Taxis (like in China and Indonesia). The failure of the public transport lead to the generation of the informal public transport like the paratransit which helps in contributing to the accessibility but it has some adverse effects also.

The Informal public transport has a wide importance for the people in the Urban as well as in rural areas along the world. The services of Informal public transport consist of various modes like minibuses, vans, taxis, station wagons, three-wheelers and motorcycles etc. On

Different Roles of Informal Public Transport:

1. As the supply of the mass public transport is not satisfying the increasing transport demand because of the lack of the financial problems of the cities, therefore the IPT vehicles filling that mobility gap.

2. The travel demand of the people in the city is of varying nature and of different travel characteristics which cannot satisfy by the mass transport system with their fixed time and route operation system, therefor the IPT system itself used as the mass transport facility.

3. As the cities in India grows around the core areas, the old quarters of the city areas with the narrow road network pattern, cause problems for the motorized or the mass public transport to reach there and the redevelopment schemes require lot of finance which is difficult for the cities to provide. So, the IPT plays a vital role in providing the facilities even in narrow road network areas and require less financial investments for redevelopment.

4. The greatest advantage of the IPT vehicles is that, they provide door to door services in more personalised form. Therefore, most of the people preferred IPT for their different trips like: social trips, recreational trips, health and business trips