Tata Motors bags Rs 50-crore order for vestibule buses

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Swaraj BaggonkarMoneycontrolTata Motors, India’s second largest bus manufacturer, has bagged an order for 30 articulated buses also known as vestibules for supply to the bus rapid transit system (BRTS) under development by Hubbali-Dharwad Municipal Corporation.Deliveries of the high floor, multi-seater buses costing Rs 1.6 crore a piece, will begin in six months and will conclude in six months thereafter, said the Mumbai-based company. The nearly Rs 50 crore order is the first for Tata Motors for the articulated type. These buses will be powered by diesel engines rather than CNG.The 22.2 kms long BRTS corridor in Karnataka will bring back the articulated bus concept which was experimented by a few state governments earlier. Such buses are usually twice the size of a conventional bus linked together by a pivoting joint that helps aid maneuvering the vehicle.Ravi Pisharody, Executive Editor, Tata Motors, said, “This is directly from the municipal corporation, they are actually getting ready. It is they who are laying the infrastructure for this. This is part of JNNURM II. Because it had to be an articulated bus they gave us a longer time for delivery”.These swanky air-conditioned buses have a total carrying capacity of 120 including 50 seated passengers. The Hubbali-Dharwad BRTS is set to open this calendar year. The system will have open and closed bus corridors, an automated vehicle tracking system and an off-board fare collection system.Implemented in Ahmedabad, Pune, Rajkot, Bhopal, Indore, Surat and Amritsar, the system works on dedicated bus corridors on arterial routes within a city or connecting two or more cities. It has bus stations and an automated fare collection centres, like the Janmarg system adopted by the Gujarat government for Ahmedabad. Buses can be low or high floor, automatic transmission and their doors do not open unless allowed by the driver.According to a study by the National Institute of Urban Affairs and CIDCO, about 20 cities will have 28 bus mobility projects, which will be developed at a cost of USD 200 million (Rs 1,400 crore). At least nine of the 63 eligible cities in India have adopted the BRTS.