SESSION 4A - ‘Role of Rickshaws/Taxi in Sustainable Transport’

1. Auto-rickshaw and Share-Auto
Reforms in Chennai
Raj Cherubal, Chennai City Connect

2. Auto-rickshaw and
Share-Auto Reforms in Chennai
Raj Cherubal
Chennai City Connect

3. Few years ago in Chennai
Ban autos/share autos!
Competition to MTC
Nuisance on the road
Cheating customers, no transparent
fare
We did auto and share auto studies
Economic and social survey
Sustained campaign and lobbying
Lot of Media coverage

4. Studies
22 Lakhs trips per day by IPT
54 Lakhs trips by MTC
9 Lakhs by trips by suburban
30% idle -> with IT, process efficiency
21km/liter, ->24km/liter if maintained
well
Entrepreneurial opportunity
Branding and fleet creation
Change in attitude at policy level

5. Few interesting issues
Fare not revised from 2007
We have given Hakim Committee
model to GoTN
Times of India and activists conducted
public campaign
File stuck in Home Ministry
Policing, not transportation
Regulator, operator separated by ministry

6. Few interesting issues
CNG, LPG, new ideas and tech
Need for proper studies, not speculations
One auto has many driver
LPG is a problem for driver
Real and imagined issues – Rainy day
All share autos are illegal
They are not permitted to be stage
carriages. Only MTC can in Chennai

7. Current problems
G-Auto and Autoraja concepts
welcomed by all
Individual auto drivers see benefit
Unions wary of “profit seekers”
Without fare revision new models will
loose money
Applying their own fares,
transparently, is illegal!

8. CUMTA
CUMTA functioning for 4 years
Act passed 2 years ago, yet to be notified
CCC member, ITDP advisor
Three working groups
Intermodal Integration
NMT
Finance
Branded share auto integrate with Metro
Common Ticketing
Revenue sharing

9. CUMTA and intermodal integration
Embarq helping GoTN prepare IPT
policy
ITDP standards for Metro station area
Proper place and weightage for IPT
parking, etc.
Complementary routes?
Improved MTC route “steals” customers
from share autos

10. Thank you