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Services · Urban mobility
Travel, ridership and parking data for city transport plans
Bharat Survey is a comprehensive mobility plan survey agency for development authorities, transport corporations and the consultants who write CMPs and DPRs. We run household travel diaries, on-board and station ridership surveys, parking inventories and pedestrian counts with trained field teams and a GPS-verified offline app, so the transport model is built on trips that were actually recorded where and when the data says.
- Household travel surveys by traffic zone
- Boarding-alighting and origin-destination counts
- Parking supply, occupancy and duration
- Every record time-stamped and geo-tagged
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Why the survey matters
A Comprehensive Mobility Plan follows the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs toolkit: understand how people travel today, model future demand, then test options. The first step is almost entirely primary survey work.
The household travel survey is the backbone. It records every trip made by household members on a typical weekday — purpose, mode, start and end points, time and cost — along with income, vehicle ownership and household size. Those trips, expanded to the city population by traffic analysis zone, calibrate the travel demand model. If the sample under-covers informal settlements or women's trips, the model inherits that bias for twenty years of planning.
We plan the household travel survey India cities need by zone: a sampling fraction set with the consultant, households selected at random within each zone, and interviews spread across weekdays. Trip ends are captured as map pins with landmarks, not just locality names, which saves weeks of geocoding later.
Survey agency for public transport and traffic management study
Many studies are commissioned as one package: a CMP, a bus reform plan, a parking policy or a junction improvement programme. As a survey agency for public transport and traffic management study work, we take the survey components while the planning consultant owns the modelling and recommendations. That split keeps responsibilities clear in the contract.
Typical survey package
- Household travel survey
- Classified volume counts
- Origin-destination roadside survey
- Public transport ridership survey
- Parking survey
- Pedestrian and NMT counts
- Stated preference survey
Survey types
Ridership surveys answer two questions: how many people use each route or station, and who they are. Pick the tab that matches your system.
Boarding-alighting and on-board OD
Enumerators ride sampled trips and count boardings and alightings at every stop, while a second team member interviews a sample of passengers about origin, destination, fare and access mode.
- Stop-wise load profiles
- Peak and off-peak trips
- Fare and access mode
Station entry-exit and passenger interviews
Counts at entry and exit points combined with short interviews on first and last mile, trip purpose and alternatives used before metro.
- Access and egress mode
- Feeder demand
- Previous mode
Auto, e-rickshaw and shared mode surveys
Stand-level counts and driver and passenger interviews that show where informal transit fills gaps in formal routes.
- Stand occupancy
- Route patterns
- Fare per trip
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Route planning
A bus route survey agency should give planners route-level evidence they can act on, not just totals.
Load profiles by time band
Boarding and alighting counts turned into load profiles that show where buses run full and where capacity is wasted.
Running time and dwell time
Timestamps at each stop reveal delay hotspots, useful when arguing for bus priority at specific junctions.
Passenger profile
Gender, age band, trip purpose and fare paid, collected from a random sample of boarding passengers.
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Other components
Metro ridership survey services often sit beside parking and walking studies in the same terms of reference.
Parking
Parking supply and occupancy
On-street and off-street inventory, hourly occupancy by licence-plate sampling and duration analysis to size parking demand and pricing.
Walking
Pedestrian and cycle counts
Mid-block and junction counts at intervals through the day, with footpath condition and crossing behaviour notes.
Choice
Stated preference surveys
Choice experiments on fare, travel time and comfort that inform mode shift assumptions for new systems.
Evaluation
Before-and-after studies
Repeat surveys after a new route, lane or policy to measure whether travel behaviour actually changed.
Parking and walking
Planning firms acting as parking survey consultant in India often need extra hands for three weeks, not a permanent team. We supply supervised enumerators, the app and daily data checks, and deliver occupancy and duration tables in the format the consultant's model expects. Licence-plate data is truncated or hashed before analysis and never used to identify vehicle owners.
Public transport and traffic management study survey services India
For public transport and traffic management study survey services, India's development authorities usually ask for raw data plus summary tables. We deliver both, with a data dictionary, zone codes and the questionnaire version used on each day.
Walking and cycling
Our pedestrian count survey services record counts by direction in 15-minute bins, with gender splits where the study asks for them. Counters log from fixed positions whose GPS points appear in the dataset, so a reviewer can confirm the junction counted is the one in the report.
Before the count
- Count positions fixed with GPS and photos
- Weekday selection agreed with the planner
- Counters trained on direction and category codes
During the count
- Entries time-stamped per 15-minute bin
- Unannounced supervisor visits
- Weather and disruptions logged
After the count
- Peak-hour factors computed
- Footpath and crossing condition notes
- Raw bins plus summary tables delivered
Roles
Before
We handle
Field data and its quality
- Sampling plan with the consultant
- Enumerator training and supervision
- Household, ridership, parking and count surveys
- GPS and time verification, back-checks
- Clean data, dictionary and summary tables
With Bharat Survey
Your planning consultant handles
Modelling and recommendations
- Traffic analysis zone system
- Travel demand model and calibration
- Scenario testing and projects
- Cost estimates and DPR drafting
- Stakeholder consultation outcomes
Independent checks
Some departments need a third party evaluation agency for public transport and traffic management study results — for example, checking whether a bus service contract is delivering the ridership it reports. We can run independent counts and passenger surveys that do not depend on operator data.
Where a department simply needs a data collection agency for public transport and traffic management study inputs, we work under the planning consultant or directly for the authority, whichever the procurement requires.
Not the right fit if
- Automated traffic counts from installed cameras or sensors
- Drone-based traffic video without a partner
- Travel demand modelling and the CMP report itself
- Road engineering design or DPR sign-off
A good fit if
- Household travel and OD surveys at scale
- Manual ridership, parking and pedestrian surveys
- Multilingual passenger interviews
- Raw data with GPS and time evidence
FAQ
Straight answers to the questions people ask most about this topic.
How many households does a household travel survey need?
It is usually set as a sampling fraction by traffic analysis zone, agreed with the planning consultant and guided by the MoHUA CMP toolkit, with minimum interviews per zone so each zone can be expanded reliably. Smaller cities often need a higher fraction. We share the zone-wise plan before fieldwork.
Do you collect trip data through an app on respondents' phones?
Not by default. Our enumerators interview households using their own devices and record trips with map pins. Respondent-side GPS tracking raises consent and coverage issues, so we only propose it where the study design and consent process support it.
Can you work with our existing zone map and codes?
Yes. We load your traffic analysis zones and stop or station codes into the survey app so every record is tagged with the codes your model uses, which removes a large cleaning step after fieldwork.
How do you ensure counts were done at the right location and time?
Counter positions are fixed with GPS before the count starts, and each 15-minute entry is time-stamped. Supervisors make unannounced visits and the dataset shows position and time for every bin.
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Send the survey list, city and timeline. We will return a field plan with sample sizes, team structure and data formats.