Operational and financial performance of Delhi's natural gas-fueled public bus transit fleet: A critical evaluation

Christian Krelling and Madhav G. Badami

Transport Policy, 2016, vol. 47, issue C, 178-188

Abstract: Following a Supreme Court of India directive, the bus fleet of the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) was converted to run on compressed natural gas (CNG) from around 1999 to 2000, to address the city's air pollution. We critically evaluate the operational and financial performance of DTC's bus fleet from 1989–90 to 2010–11 – that is, from ten years prior to CNG implementation until 10 years after – to assess how this performance was affected by the fuel switch, as well as the introduction of low-floor CNG buses.

Keywords: Public transit; Bus transit; Delhi; Natural gas; Transit performance; Policy analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2016.02.001

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