In a comprehensive report card prepared by Parisar, looking at 12 parameters under the 4 main parameters of comfort, convenience, affordability and reliability, PMPML scores a B grade. 

PMPML has regularly published monthly performance statistics on its website for the past many years. The report card was devised so that the performance information of PMPML, which is often technical, can be decoded to identify patterns and trends, and interpret it so that everyone finds it easy to understand.

Tanzeel Allapur, a sustainable mobility advocate and Project Associate at Parisar, presented her research on the mobility patterns and spatial knowledge of school children in Pune at the South Asia Cycles Conference. This prestigious event, held at the University of Chicago Delhi Centre in November 2024, provided a platform to showcase findings that hold critical implications for urban planning and child-friendly infrastructure design.

A transit system is as usable as its wayfinding system. To understand how easy or difficult it is to travel by PMPML buses, we asked five first-time users to make a trip by the bus, unassisted. We observed their journey and interviewed them after they finished the trip to understand their experience and the challenges they faced.

We are pleased to release our final report Engage for Environment: Bus-based Public Transport and Environment in Maharashtra in the theme-based series that explored the connection between bus-based publictransport (BBPT) and gender, urban development and environment as part of our “Lakhko50” bus campaign.