CHENNAI: If Delhi-National Capital Region is the largest car market in India, would naturally have the highest density of vehicles in the country, right? Well, not quite. Despite a staggering fleet of 7.35012 million almost double the city with the second largest fleet, Chennai – Delhi density of vehicles is actually about a tenth of Chennai. And Chennai, Delhi not, which has the highest density of vehicles, followed by Pune.
Consider the statistics. The six best cities in terms of vehicle population – Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai and Kolkata – not quite stack according to conventional wisdom. For example, while Delhi is clearly the top with its population of 7.3 million vehicles drive the second car park belongs to Chennai largest at 3.7 million units, closely followed by Hyderabad at 3.38 million units. Mumbai, considered a market much larger car, has a fleet of smaller vehicles Pune. Bombay count is 2 million units compared to 2.26 million Pune. Kolkata, which has the smallest population of vehicles in less than half a million vehicles, has a much higher density compared to Delhi.
In terms of density of vehicles, Chennai topped the list with 2,093, followed by Pune in 1260, Mumbai in 1014, with 723 Hyderabad, Calcutta and Delhi with 355 to 245. The reason for this is huge advantage Delhi in road length . Compared to 1800 km in Chennai and Pune, Mumbai and 2000 km in a mere 1400 km in Calcutta, Delhi has about 30,000 km long road.
What City reminds more traffic? Is Mumbai, Delhi or any other city? To our surprise is Chennai which has the highest density of vehicles in India, despite being the largest in Delhi automotive industry in the country, as reported by Toi.
The density of vehicles against the length of roads brings the difference between Delhi and Chennai. Delhi has a length of Highway 33, 000 km, while Chennai has a mere 2 000 km length of the road. Therefore, although Delhi tops fleet with 7.3 million vehicles, 3.7 million vehicles Park Chennai units increase the density in the city.
Chennai topped the list of cities with the highest density of vehicles, with 2,093 vehicles followed kilometers of Pune, with 1,260 units of vehicles per kilometer, while Delhi is less than 245 vehicles per kilometer. However this vehicle density in Chennai not hinder air quality as well as hampered in Delhi, which seems surprising considering the huge number of vehicles in Chennai.
Delhi, moreover tops the list of cities with the most harmful air pollutants in the air with high PM 2.5 (small particles in the air that reduce visibility and cause the air to appear cloudy). According to PM 2.5 environmental increases primarily because of the exhaust gases of vehicles. If such is the case Chennai should also have higher levels of PM 2.5, which is currently marked 20 instead of Delhi, which is marked 198. There is some confusion on the subject yet, whether or not the contribution of the sector transport increases levels of PM 2.5.
