Sujit Vishal G.

UT4002

This study is talking about the electrification of Public Transport in the city of Chennai. To make a sustainable transportation model we must understand the city characteristics, the travel pattern and the mode share. The other important thing is the ridership trends of the city, are the people willing to travel in Public Transport or willingness to shift to the Public Transport. This document briefs about the demand, capital cost, operational cost, infrastructure development and the phasing of the project. The demand of the new sustainable mode is measures which helps in understand the increasing/decrease the ridership of the Public Transport based on the proposed modes. Based on the demand the number of fleet size for the satisfy the ridership is calculated. Different business scenarios are considered to understand the financial and economic viability of the business model. In addition, this document also talks about the environmental benefits like reduction in particulate matter on converting from the existing to the proposed mode, in doing so the government can save money on the treatment cost.