Vriksh wrote:Actually I am looking to collate this data on cost of metro systems. . If you find interesting links please post here.
Vriksh, there was a while that I was looking at some costs, but I didn't save the reports. Some of the reports are open source by the relevant agency /public bodies and some are reported in the newspapers.
The initial thoughts analysis that gave a lot of impetus to my thinking came from
https://pedestrianobservations.wordpres ... s-revised/.
Though it is flawed, it was very insightful for a top down outside in analysis and allowed me to see the inherent bias in practically all newspaper reporting (As an example, hindu and others parroted and tom-tomed the 25% or like savings for one of the metro projects vs a gulf project - by quoting gross costs/km without taking underground vs overground, cost of living/exchange rates etc., taxes, finance etc)
Delhi phase 2 was supposed to be 10% cheaper than Delhi phase 1 before the cutting of corners started to hit things
Indian metros do tend to be rather expensive globally if one were to use a PPP basis (and of course that is one of those assumptions i mentioned). Delays seem to escalate costs everywhere ...Financing is often a large cost concern.
Some of the UNEP stuff was projected (originally envisaged cost), but pretty interesting:
http://www.unep.org/transport/lowcarbon ... Tiwari.pdf (esp page 3-5, 15 on taxes)
http://www.unep.org/transport/lowcarbon ... oRails.pdf
Delhi Metro was supposed to move to Comet benchmark in 2015, but I haven't seen any publications from this yet. (probably premature)
http://cometandnova.org/research-invest ... of-metros/
For operating cost,
http://easts.info/on-line/proceedings/vol9/PDF/P84.pdf [OPDF fig 3 onwards shows some interesting light with Delhi being in a relatively high Asian cluster for cost effectiveness, but 6th or so (not the greatest). Since the rolling stock is relatively new and employee cost is the largest fraction of operating cost (41%), that says that perhaps we are not very efficient at staffing.
Also, I stopped following contract news like this one on Gammon for 1947 crore for 7 underground stations
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/che ... 423156.ece as it became too fragmented and there were lots of games and lack of clarity on scope, leading to no correlation to the actual costs,.
since the tunneling work is not complete & the line's depot is located in the northern end of the city. BMRC had planned to transport the coaches and then lift them onto the elevated section, but now has shelved that plan.
