Tanzeel Allapur, a sustainable mobility advocate and Project Associate at Parisar, presented her research on the mobility patterns and spatial knowledge of school children in Pune at the South Asia Cycles Conference. This prestigious event, held at the University of Chicago Delhi Centre in November 2024, provided a platform to showcase findings that hold critical implications for urban planning and child-friendly infrastructure design.

A transit system is as usable as its wayfinding system. To understand how easy or difficult it is to travel by PMPML buses, we asked five first-time users to make a trip by the bus, unassisted. We observed their journey and interviewed them after they finished the trip to understand their experience and the challenges they faced.

We are pleased to release our final report Engage for Environment: Bus-based Public Transport and Environment in Maharashtra in the theme-based series that explored the connection between bus-based publictransport (BBPT) and gender, urban development and environment as part of our “Lakhko50” bus campaign.

In this second year of our “Lakh ko 50” campaign which seeks to raise the pitch for bus-based public transport in cities we used a thematic approach to explore the deeper connection between city bus services and “gender”, “urban development” and “environment”. This has been richly rewarding since many aspects of how the simple bus service depends upon and in turn influences the sector has emerged from the numerous discussions that we held with sector experts. We are pleased to bring to you the report on bus-based public transport and urban development.