The city improvement large has commissioned a examine to know the shift in modes of transport through the years, in direction of preparation of a complete mobility plan (CMP) as a prelude to the Master Plan for Hyderabad Metropolitan space.
The examine famous a large shift from public transport to the personal autos over the interval between 2011 and 2024, as vouched by lowered use of bus as mode of transport and elevated two-wheeler and four-wheeler use.
City buses run by the Andhra Pradesh/Telangana state highway transport firms served 42% inhabitants in 2011, which dropped to 33% by 2016 and additional to 25% by 2024. However, the variety of each day individual journeys remained roughly than identical, with 38 lakh journeys recorded in 2024, as in opposition to 37.6 lakh in 2011. There was a slight dip in 2016, when 36 lakh each day individual journeys have been recorded by bus.
During the identical interval, there was a fourfold surge in use of automobile as mode of transport. In 2011, merely 4 lakh each day individual journeys have been reported by automobile constituting 4 p.c of the whole journeys. The quantity spiralled to 7.7 lakh in 2016 constituting 7% of the whole, and to a whopping 24.3 lakh journeys in 2024, which accounted for 16% of the whole each day individual journeys within the 12 months.
Use of two-wheelers too has seen a outstanding rise for the interval, with 2011 recording 33.4 lakh each day individual journeys by this mode, which elevated to 51.7 lakh by 2016 and to 69.2 lakh by 2024. In proportion phrases, the usage of two-wheelers was its highest in 2016 at 47% up from 38% as recorded in 2011. A slight dip of two per cent was recorded in 2024, which, when seen at the side of the rise in use of bus throughout the identical interval, speaks for the free bus scheme for girls being applied by the Telangana authorities.
Travel by autos has come down from 7% to five% between 2011 and 2024 regardless of the proliferation of trip hailing apps. The journeys, nevertheless elevated from 6.5 lakh to eight.2 lakh, taking a marginal dip of 10,000 journeys in 2016. Travel by taxi recorded a marginal improve from 5% to six%, with absolute variety of each day individual journeys rising from 4.1 lakh to eight.7 lakh.
Use of the suburban trains is subsequent to nil in 2024, with solely 30,000 individual journeys by the Multi Modal Transport System (MMTS), down from 3.5 lakh journeys recorded in 2011 by the identical means. Hyderabad Metro Rrail, which had began operations in direction of the tip of 2017, recorded 4.8 lakh each day individual journeys accounting for 3% of the city transport in 2024.
Published – September 11, 2025 08:23 am IST
