
Number of operating vehicles in India FY 1951-2020
personal or shared vehicles for commute. Not only public commute, the industrial movement of goods through roads had also been on the rise with nearly 2.7 billion metric tons of freight transported through roads in financial year 2019.
In a country with the third largest road network in the world, the total number of vehicles in fiscal year 2022 stood at 326.3 million. Road travel seemed to be the preferred choice in India with around 60 percent of the population who used