Rahul Mehta Gandhinagar LsCandidate
Any data on % occupancy of Indian railways? for various classes such as 2nd-non-ac-chair-reserved, 2nd-non-ac-sleeper-reserved, 2nd-ac-sleeper-reserved, 3T-ac-sleeper-reserved, 2T-ac-sleeper-reserved, etc etc
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Let me explain by % occupancy.
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1. Say a train goes from Ahmedabad to Mumbai and chair car is 50% empty and 50% full all the way from Ahmedabad-M . The vacancy is 50%
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2. Say a train goes from Ahmedabad to Mumbai and chair car is 50% empty and 50% full all the way from Ahmedabad -Vapi, and 100% from Vapi-Mumbai. And Ahmedabad-Vapi is say 75% of route. Then occupancy will be (75 * 50 + 25 * 100) = 3750 + 5000 = 8750 i.e. 87%.
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I could NOT find any number of train occupancy. Please see if you can find % number on occupancy.
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IMO, there may be scope of shuffling trains and increasing occupancy and thus increase revenues without any increase in costs and thus increase profits.