Chennai MTC Bus Timings, Routes, Live Status on MTCbustrack.com

Chennai is the 6th biggest city and fourth-most crowded metropolitan territory in the nation and 31st-biggest urban region on the world. The city is the auxiliary budgetary center point in the nation, after Mumbai.

Air contamination levels in Chennai have come to a record high with the suspended particulate matter in numerous pockets of the city at 45 for every penny over as far as possible. So high are the pollution levels that Chennai has crossed Delhi, generally viewed as the most contaminated city in the country, and a standout amongst the most polluted on the world.

More than 700 new vehicles get added consistently to Chennai's streets, which add to an ascent in Sulfur dioxide levels. Movement is moving at snails speed. That is one of the real explanations for the Sulfur dioxide and carbon monoxide outflow.

Starting 1 April 2013, the aggregate vehicle population of Chennai is 3,881,850, including 3,053,233 bikes.

Chennai'svehicle populace has been accelerating consistently from 600,000 in 1992, to 1.3 million in 2001 and 3.64 million in 2012. Every day, around 1,500 new vehicles hit the streets, with bikes constituting more than 75 percent of them. Be that as it may, enlistment of new autos is additionally on the ascent. Chennai vehicles constitute one-fourth of the 17.5 million vehicles over the condition of Tamil Nadu. 

Ideally, more than 70 percent of the population should be using public transport, but less than 40 percent regularly use it. Owing to the high traffic density, the average bus speed in the city as of 2014 is 17-18 kilometers per hour. Over the next five years it is expected to come down to 12 km per hour, whereas the maximum allowable operating speed of the vehicles shall be 80 kmph with a maximum design speed of 90 kmph.

Chennai positions fifth in carbon discharges from the vehicle part among 54 South Asian urban communities, as indicated by a study done by the International Council for Local Environmental Initiative (ICLEI). The city's emanation levels in transport are much higher than Kolkata and Delhi. As per the study, Chennai has a for each capita emanation rate of 0.91 tons of carbon dioxide, while its aggregate discharges for it is 3.82 metric tons. This is mostly due to the significant increase of motor vehicles used for commuting and carrying goods in the past few years.

• The public will be able to know if the bus is crowded apart from knowing about the bus’s timing.
• Once MTCbustrack website finds its patronage, public transport ridership shall drastically improve in the city.
• The data output will greatly help in improving people’s faith in public transport and enhance its safety and security.
• This information will be made available free on the internet, so that people can use real time data to plan trips.
• MTCbustrack will ultimately help Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC) to try out passenger-friendly measures to improve patronage.