Bus Karo 2.0 Webinar 1: Initiating City Bus Services
byKanika Jindal
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This webinar was hosted on February 13, 2015 from 3-4 pm IST (check your local time here) and was presented by Basalingappa Beedi, DTO Central Division, NEKRTC and Manish Dutta Pandey, Project Associate, Urban transport-EMBARQ India.
City bus services are the backbone of mobility in most Indian cities. While large cities such as Bangalore, Delhi, Chennai etc have established city bus services, smaller cities have significant potential for providing affordable and convenient mobility by establishing a formal public transport system. NEKRTC, the public transport operator in Karnataka has successfully implemented city bus services in 7 cities in the North East of Karnataka including Gulbarga. This webinar provided a framework for cities looking to introduce city bus services through the case study of Gulbarga.
This was the first webinar from the Bus Karo 2.0 webinar series, which will be conducted over the next few months. EMBARQ India's deep engagement on several projects with various city bus agencies, has lead to the publishing of the Bus Karo 2.0 report, which documents the implementation of significant advancements in bus transport in India. As a part of the project, we have come up with a series of webinars, where each webinar will be conducted by EMBARQ India and the partner agency and focus on a different case study detailed in the report.