Infrastructure

Table 60 - Motor Vehicles Registered

Item Greater Mumbai
As on
31st March 1992		 Greater Mumbai
As on
31st March 1999		 Maharashtra
As on
31st March 1992		 Maharashtra
As on
31st March 1999

Number
Motorcycles 80,028 166,649 6,04,402 1,519,207
Scooters 142,532 182,342 6,92,891 1,250,611
Mopeds 29,741 30,450 5,79,229 854,029
Total two wheelers 2,52,301 379,441 18,76,522 3,623,847
Cars 2,51,487 284,964 3,64,006 5,52,047
Jeeps 15,557 21,902 74,564 183,985
Station wagons 3,263 4,077 7,527 12,460
Taxis 35,676 55,472 45,610 78,600
Auto 24,577 91,622 1,43,026 357,551
Stage carriages 3,522 5,129 18,434 26,480
Contract carriages 2,476 6,091 4,391 12,554
School buses 578 703 1070 1,563
Private service vehicles 1,588 1,632 5,371 8,328
Ambulances 953 1,271 2,418 3,737
Trucks and lorries 32,040 17,783 1,44,155 176,995
Deliver vans (4 wheelers) 11,739 16,753 47,129 102,434
Deliver vans (3 wheelers) 6,701 14,492 19,196 54,600
Total (Incl. above and
tractors, trailors etc)		 6,46,627 9,10,728 2,900,164 5,518,156
 
  • Mumbai accounts for 17 per cent of the vehicle population of the State and about 50% of the car population
  • Over the last seven years, the bulk of the growth of vehicle-population has been on account of two-wheelers and auto-rickshaws
  • Of the increase in car registrations during 1992-99, less than 20% are in Greater Mumbai