Bengaluru Commuter Rail Service can be profitable within a year!

Hi Syed You really did your homework very well and u seem to be good at Maths ;)

The  imp thing which you have taken taken into consideration is ticket price.

Just refer below the prices of MMTS in hyderabad:

This is what i feel the  ticket price should be as it  plays a vital role.

Secondly There should be enough stations in Sub-urbs to make it Effective.As MMTS(Hyd) has approximately 40 Stations in Sub-urbs at important junctions.This will also attract a large no of commuters.

Thirdly all the Sub-urb Stations should be connected using double rail lines. As i am from hyderabad and have been in Bangalore for the past 10 months ,i really dont know whether the Sub-urbs have double rail  lines.As this also plays vital role in maintaining the frequency of Trains.

Aniketh

Taking into consideration whatever you calculated, we will take it up as soon as we are asked about the profiable business model, before that I would suggest, lets try to market it well, make people aware of trains running today, stops of these local trains, and how trains can reduce their time and traffic as well. What we can do -

 Lets try to identify area around every station, lets say a circle of radius 3-4 kms around a current station. For example, for the kermelram, people staying on the sarjapur road belt and want to travel to KR Puram or whitefield or Hebbal or anywhere in betweebn, lets try to give a very detailed and proper way of using the CRS. I mean, properly explain them, that they can take public transport to this stop, and then take a train from there, in just 5 Rs, you can reach this point etc.
Also, if they want to take private vehicle, take it, drive it 3-4 kms till karmelram station, park it there wherever you find space (lets just let them park anywhere), and board the train, let them get amused by the time benefit they are going to get.

Doing this-

(1) We will able to make more and more people aware of trains, benefit of trains in their commutation, as well as increase the demand of the train.

(2) Parking their private vehicles will help us show authorities that people are using it, more will use it, give them good parking space outside these stations and make it paid. These way, we are showing people proper ways to use the CRS (kind of spoon feeding), but once they are used to it, they will demand for more such and then it will help us in putting more pressure.

(3) We will get lot more people support in asking increased frequence, better coaches, AC coaches etc etc, better paid parking outside stations, may be a few feeder BMTC services which can help BMTC as well etc etc

Deepak

properly explain them, that they can take public transport to this stop, and then take a train from there, in just 5 Rs, you can reach this point etc.

Last trip Raja showed up & took the initiative of popularizing the train around Kaggadasapura where he lives, he also wrote to people in the area. We need more Raja's. Try this around your individual areas & report back here. All material required are available in this site, there is a one pager handout in one of the blogs under the project which can be printed. Myself & Sanjeev have a couple of 100 copies of this handout which we can share if you want.

There should be enough stations in Sub-urbs to make it Effective.As MMTS(Hyd) has approximately 40 Stations in Sub-urbs at important junctions

Enough stations is subjective, MMTS doesnt cover large distances and hence can afford to stop more, In case of Bengaluru commuter rail the stops will need to be balanced. It will definitely be more than what we have now but not as frequent as a metro.

For example between Hebbal & Bellandur on the YH1 route there is only Banaswadi station leaving wide swathes of the city inaccessible to the train. One between Banaswadi & Hebbal & another to allow access to the Byappanahalli interchange & OMR will be bare minimum additions. The report however proposes additional useful stations at important juctions which can be considered based on the feeder serices & accessibility needs.

Here is a paper on public transport pricing.

Remember there are other avenues than just ticket prices for revenue generation. Commuter rail can create passenger traffic for outlier stations & trains to become revenue generators. Having minimal utilities can make the place a hub, an ATM, a coffee shop, a post office, an eatery. Some of the things that will make people use the station for more than just travel.