Ola releases data on city transportation patterns across India

The data offers a glimpse of into how traffic across top 7 metros in the country moves during different hours of the day.

The data also highlights some interesting trends around workplace commute,  and names the 7 worst traffic bottlenecks across the country.

Pranay Jivrajka, COO at Ola said, “Location data is core to us at Ola, as we go about our mission of building mobility for a billion people. Hundreds of thousands of vehicles on the Ola app, help relay rich data in real-time, helping us predict demand and plan our inventory better. With data of vehicular movement from over 100 cities across the country, we are present in today we can draw very insightful analysis on traffic conditions urban commute patterns. A lot of this data can also be extremely useful to solve for important issues like de-congestion, urban planning, traffic management and more. We are working with the government at multiple levels to put this rich data to use over the long term for improving the state of mobility in the cities we live in.”

Some interesting insights from Ola’s data:

Average speed of cities:

●     The fastest average vehicular movement across the top 7 metros is witnessed in Delhi and Pune with the average speed in both the cities being 23 km/hr.

●     Chennai, Mumbai and Hyderabad follow these cities with average speeds being 21, 20 and 19 km/hr respectively.

●     Bangalore and Kolkata are cities where vehicles move the slowest, with average speeds being as low as 18 and 17 km/hr respectively.

Speed across the country through the day:

●     The top average speed of Indian traffic is 33 km/hr between 3 to 6 AM

●     The lowest average speed stands at just 18 km/hr, understandably between 6 to 9 PM

●     The average speed remains at 19 km/hr between 9 to 12 PM when most people travel to their offices.

●     Surprisingly, the average speed picks up by just 1 km/hr between noon and 3 PM, when the traffic from office commute is off the roads.

Commute Data:

●     Average distance travelled by an urban Indian living in one of the top 7 metros to reach their office stands at 11.6 km.

●     Average time taken by them to reach office is 34.8 minutes.

Most notorious traffic bottlenecks in India:

●     The top 7 traffic bottlenecks are all in just 4 metros – Kolkata, Mumbai, Bangalore and Hyderabad. Kolkata, Mumbai and Bangalore have two such bottlenecks each!

●     Kolkata stands still at Shyambazar and Park Street, Mumbai barely moves at Saki Naka and Powai, Bangalore stops at Silk Board and Domlur and Charminar brings Hyderabad to a stand still.