The success of any smart transport initiative lies in their adoption and usage by the citizens, says O P Gupta, General Manager, Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport Undertaking (BEST) in conversation with Sneha Mejari of ENN

What are the key challenges in financing modernisation projects in road transport?
Public transport, especially public bus transport systems in our country are run by state transport undertakings. In cities, majority of them work directly under municipal bodies through their undertakings or their transport bodies; in rural areas they are run by the state transport undertakings. A lion’s share of the municipal transport undertakings are run either as a department of the municipal corporation or as in special cases like BEST, which is a fully independent undertaking to run the transport system.

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