Public Transport

A good public transport is catalyst to economy.People can travel for work, business and school. Even the regions far way from the center of the city can flourish. It also eases pollution and traffic jams and people ultimately become healthy.

Metro is the most effective option.Regional trains should stop at the main station or at one of the suburban stations and then people can change to the metro for their work. Each overhead train stop can serve as a bus stop (below) for the feeder routes.Bus routes should be smaller to make their timing proper.

There should be trains to connect city centre to suburbs and to the important business districts. The city planning should be done such that all offices are not at the same direction. The office, school and shop timings should be adjusted to spread the load over time.

Subways require a lot of investments, so they should be made only where absolutely necessary. metro stations are OK.

A fixed design should be specified for stops so that costs can be reduced and they can be made fast.

Following is needed at stops:

* arrival/departure page display.
* routes display.
* incoming and outgoing connections.
* 2 escalators for the needy.
* down escalators for most people.
* ticket machines

Fare plan

It is no use making a single journey ticket. There is more investment in checking etc. And the services anyways need to be operated Objective of the system is that when service is running then the usage should be balanced so as to make effective use of it.Following type of tickets may be planned:

- day ticket

- weekend ticket (2 and 4 persons family tkt)

- weekly passes

- monthly passes and so on.

The costs should be based on traffic distribution and modelling.

The regional train should not add to the cause. Having them in same cost will redue burden on infrastructure.

The ticket machine should use credit card and uses RFID. It should just program the identity of person, public key of transport authority and the date range it is valid. The readers should be installed at stations and in buses. They should just check the range and show GREEN if OK.

How to check the identity? is it needed? pass is non transferable?

If the ticket is less costly, many people will use it.

Timing is of utmost importance. Comfort secondary.