Talk:Transport in India

Self-drive cars India

I feel that a new section for self-driving cars should be added. Since there is a growing number of providers in this field, there should be a section dedicated to it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Suman 666 (talk • contribs) 13:01, 11 September 2017 (UTC)

Im quite not sure of it but to actually give an opinion... maybe i would say yes! Pialy Adhikari (talk) 11:07, 19 May 2018 (UTC)

Man these are useless. U can never know when these programming go haywire. Balaji.G.J (talk) 15:53, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

That is irrelavent. However, a section is currently unwarranted since there are no such cars in India. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 19:05, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

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Promblems related to transport in india

And their solutions 171.76.239.230 (talk) 19:18, 22 June 2022 (UTC)

Those Indian safety issue may be addressed for road transport:

• two wheelers collisions vs car collision
• collision underestimation (there are more collision than those reported in statistics)
• number of fatalities: 100 000 yearly?
• trends (increase of fatalities with increase of vehicle?)
• collision per states
• vehicle statndard: tyre, seat belt, airbag, etc. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:8425:642:D701:BF55:9F65:2A1C:85EB (talk) 03:35, 11 August 2022 (UTC)

Article requires significant improvement

This article in its current form appears to be far from concise or readable. Many sections also seem to be outdated or irrelevant.

To highlight a few points:

- Most sections do not include a critical analysis of the topic. It's no secret that transportation in India is generally plagued by various challenges. Safety, efficiency, quality, etc are some. While it's great to highlight improvements and progress, it's equally important to talk about issues. This is necessary to provide readers with an accurate perspective of existing conditions.

- Irrelevant detail and excessively verbose sections have poor readability. As a country-level page, excessive mentions of specific initiatives by cities/states is unnecessary detail and can be moved to the transportation page of respective sub-regions. In the "Auto" section for example, this sentence on electric Autorickshaws goes into incredibly unnecessary detail: "E-Rickshaws are made in fiberglass or metal body, powered by a BLDC Electric Motor with max power 2000W and speed 25 km/h."

- Assumptions, poor research, or incorrect/inaccurate statements occur multiple times throughout the article. Statements such as "Like monorail, light rail is also considered as a feeder system for the metro systems." should be avoided as there is no concrete basis for such a conclusion. The only operational tram network (Kolkata) in the country is in-fact much older than the city's metro system.

Hope all of us can take these suggestions as constructive feedback and contribute to the improvement of this article! :) Nihar1024 (talk) 19:54, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

Need citations to clarify

1.)"When comparing car ownership between BRICS developing countries, it is on a par with China, and exceeded by Brazil and Russia." Can we have the citation (I'm unable to fectch the one you cited) for reference? As the figures by BRICS Joint Statistical Publication 2018 (South Africa) for the year of 2016, it showed that for every 1,000, India had 1.9 cars, while China had 9.8 cars; 2.)"Currently, 34 km of rapid transit system is operational and rest is under construction or in planning in several major cities of India and will be opened shortly." I'm wondering if only 34km of rapid transit system for India is too short;3.)" India has an extensive network of inland waterways in the form of rivers, canals, backwaters and creeks." Is Kerala backwaters the only backwaters in India that has extensive network of inland waterways? Thanks for your kind attention. ThomasYehYeh (talk) 08:18, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

Kilometers of highway per square kilometer of land...

I don't know how that number was calculated, but considering how much of the landmass of the US is void of any roads it seems a bit odd. Indeed, List of countries by road network size lists things in km / 100km², and says that while the US and India have almost identical overall road length, India's density is 201 km / 100km² while the US has 67km / 100km². This matches up almost exactly with the close numbers and the fact that the US has a bit over 3x as much land area. In other words, the source for that material at the cited source messed up some calculation pretty massively somewhere. I'd suggest just using the sources from the roadways page for each country and switching things to km / 100km². You probably don't want to compare with the US and China (or Brazil), either, considering the land area differences. China is the only country with a similar population to India (lower now apparently), but they're also about the same land area as the US and you'd expect the road density to be lower when there's 3x the space to work with regardless of population. Not as much of the Chinese population drives and they've built lots of viable public transit there so they're lower the the US on roadways despite having far more people in the same space... For whatever reason, probably because it's pretty terrible even in most cities, most people here hate taking public transit. Lots won't take trains / planes even if they're cheaper than the gas would cost to drive themselves, and their car has problems, and they hate driving. I grew up here and I don't even understand it, so don't ask me.

Anyway I didn't change anything because unfortunately I don't know what countries would be better to compare to. If you go by land area India only has a few countries in the same range. If you go by road density India isn't even in the top 30 on the list, most of the top countries are Islands or tiny countries where nearly everything is a city, like Monaco and the Vatican which are the top two and an order of magnitude more dense with roadways despite the relative lack of population. Comparing population won't be easy either, since I think India has the highest right now. You'd need to find some sort of mixed-factor comparison (land vs. population vs. density) to get anything like a like-for-like comparison, but I don't know if such a thing exists. One of the best bets might be trying to find numbers for population of the entire EU and the total land area and road density there, since the EU countries tend to be in the same ballpark in terms of density with many countries much higher. Population density vs. road density would probably be an even better metric. If you view things that way, the US has 1km of road per ~51 people. China has 1km per ~260 people but has far better public transportation (both short range and longer rail) than the US, and they don't have the average of 2 working vehicles (and 3 not working with no tires sitting on cinder blocks in the front yard in the South) that US families have for what is usually no reason. India is 1km per 217 people which sounds better than China if you don't pay attention to the road density issue.

Like I said, I don't know the best comparison to make, but someone should probably find a good / more current source for the issue and wipe out the current vastly incorrect numbers which actually look like somebody in that source may have actually flat out made up half of them, completely misinterpreted the data, or looked at the wrong thing. China almost certainly hasn't built a ~500% increase in roads in 10 years when their preference is for running light rail over long transits between cities. Brazil and the US appear to be roughly accurate, so who knows where they were pulling things from. India's density can't have gone up that much since the overall road length hasn't. I'm going by the countries by road network size page here, and most of those numbers are pulled from references from each country's respective government. Why the US one is from the CIA I have no idea, they might randomly decide to convince everyone we dismantled our entire public road system and replaced it with public blimp transit because they think it's funny at any given point.

Anyway, have fun with that. A Shortfall Of Gravitas (talk) 16:35, 26 May 2025 (UTC)