In India’s rapidly urbanising cities, where over 500 million people are projected to live by 2030. Bus network planning and design is crucial for alleviating traffic congestion, cutting emissions, and ensuring equitable mobility for all socioeconomic groups.

Buses, as the backbone of public transport, serve millions daily, yet fragmented routes and poor integration often lead to low ridership and inefficiency.

Strategic network planning, multimodal hubs, and data driven frequency optimisation that aligns with national goals for electric buses fostering sustainable growth, gender-inclusive access, and economic vitality in high-density environments.

What You Will Learn

This 90-minute webinar webinar brings together practitioners, policymakers, and experts from the public transport sector to discuss strategies, innovations, and real-world experiences in bus network planning and design.

Participants will gain insights into best practices and practical pathways for building connected, equitable, and low-emission bus transport systems.

Some of the topical issues that the webinar will focus on are:

  • Issues in Planning & Designing bus network planning in Indian cities
  • Designing of feeder systems as part of route planning
  • Smart & Digital solutions for network optimisation
  • Indian Best Practices – Planning & Designing bus network

Who is it for?

All public transport stakeholders including authorities, operators, industry and academia who are interested to learn from best practices.

Programme

Opening and Welcome Remarks

11:00 11:10

Presentation 1: Bus network planning and route designing

11:10 11:22

Presentation 2: Feeder service designing

11:22 11:34

Presentation 3: Case study 1

11:34 11:46

Presentation 4: Case study 2

11:46 11:58

Presentation 5: Digital solutions for Route optimisation

11:58 12:10

Q & A session

12:10 12:25

Wrapping up and Closing

12:25 12:30

Speakers

Ravi GADEPALLI

Partner
Transit Intelligence LLP, India

Anindita GHOSH

Senior Researcher
Membership and Global Operations, UITP, India

Contact Us

Have a question about this webinar?  Feel free to reach out to our team.

Shashank KONDA

Researcher – India Office
Membership & Global Operations
UITP Team

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