micahchoo/pcmc-mobility

Pimpri-Chinchwad mobility: plan against reality

In 2008 Pimpri-Chinchwad (PCMC), Maharashtra, wrote a Comprehensive Mobility Plan (CMP). The plan said how many people the city would hold, how many buses it would need, and how many people would ride them. This dataset holds that plan next to what was counted afterwards: the census, vehicle registrations, and the monthly and yearly reports of PMPML, the bus company for Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad.

The site built on this data: https://micahchoo.github.io/DataViz-for-Indian-Cities/. The code: https://github.com/micahchoo/DataViz-for-Indian-Cities.

What is here

Folder	What it holds
tables/	Clean tables, one Parquet file each. Use these.
raw/	The CSVs as they were extracted from the sources. Not repaired. depot_reports.csv has one row per printed cell of every depot report.
reference/	Hand-written tables (census figures, vehicle classes), each with its source.
pdfs/	The source PDFs, with manifest.csv.

Load one table:

from datasets import load_dataset
depots = load_dataset("micahchoo/pcmc-mobility", "depot_months", split="train")

Or read it directly with DuckDB:

SELECT * FROM 'hf://datasets/micahchoo/pcmc-mobility/tables/depot_months.parquet';

The tables

Table	Rows	What one row is
depot_months	498	One PMPML depot in one month, Jan 2023 – Jun 2026. The whole fleet: own, PPP and hired buses.
brt_months	370	The BRT service of one depot in one month. A slice of depot_months, not an addition to it.
ebus_months	155	The electric buses of one depot in one month. A slice of depot_months, not an addition to it.
depots	18	One depot, with coordinates and in_pcmc (inside the PCMC ward boundary).
finances	8	PMPML profit and loss for one fiscal year, FY2017-18 to FY2024-25, in ₹ lakh.
population	11	Population in one year, counted (census) or forecast by the CMP (projection).
registrations	792	Registered vehicles of one class at the Pune or Pimpri-Chinchwad RTO in one year, 2000-01 to 2017-18.
traffic_counts	97	Traffic at one survey location: 15 locations in 2008, 82 in 2021.
pt_trips	4	Daily trips and public-transport share, as forecast by the CMP.
brt_sections	30	One section of the BRT network that the CMP proposed.
brt_corridors	14	CMP demand on one BRT corridor, 2008 and 2021. Both years are forecasts.
pcmt_fleet	10	The fleet of PCMT, the city's own bus service before it merged into PMPML in 2007.

tables/pcmc.geojson holds the PCMC ward boundaries. Its source was not recorded.

Conventions

• year in a fiscal-year table is the first year: 2024 means FY2024-25.
• Money in depot_months is rupees for the month. Passenger counts are daily averages.
• PMPML serves Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad together. "PCMC depots" means the 4 depots inside the ward boundary, not the riders who live in PCMC.

Gaps

The monthly reports are missing for these months. No public archive holds them (pmpml.org, the Wayback Machine and Common Crawl were checked on 2026-10-07):

• Nov 2024 – Mar 2025
• Jul – Sep 2025
• Jan – Feb 2026

Each report also prints the system totals for the month before and for the same month a year before. So raw/depot_reports.csv (rows where depot = 'Total') has system totals, but no depot figures, for Nov 2024, Dec 2024, Mar 2025, Sep 2025 and Feb 2026.

A missing month has no row. It is not a row of zeros. If you join the monthly tables to a calendar, keep the gap as NULL or NaN.

The BRT and e-bus tables still end in Dec 2025.

Repairs

The raw data has known errors. The clean tables repair each one, and a test checks each repair.

Error in the source	Repair
The report's wording changed four times (Jan 2023, Apr 2024, Apr 2026)	depot_months: each field is found by a pattern over every spelling
pdfplumber read two neighbouring numbers as one cell (Apr 2023)	depot_reports.csv: split
The PDFs print -, -- and #DIV/0! for no value	depot_reports.csv: no value
L.M.A.S. replaced Upper Depot in Apr 2026, in the same column, with the same buses and routes	depot_months: taken as Upper Depot
Jan and Mar 2023 print more schedules operated than sanctioned for 9 depot-months	depot_months: the larger value is sanctioned
Total Gross KMs covers own buses only, and is smaller than effective km	depot_months: not used
From Apr 2024 the Diesel (Own+PPP) km total is empty	depot_months: fuel km summed from their parts
The "One Day Passes" and "Monthly Passes" totals are rupees, not passes	depot_months: named *_pass_earning
The BRT and e-bus files have a System Total row next to the depot rows	brt_months, ebus_months: dropped
The BRT corridor names were drag-filled (Old NH-4 → Old NH-8)	brt_sections: each corridor takes its first section's name
The "Estimated vs Actual" BRT file holds forecasts only	brt_corridors: kind = 'projection'
The reported FY2023-24 net result is approximate	finances: net computed from its parts
0 means "no value" in the CMP population file	population: those rows removed
Registrations are a running stock; scrapped vehicles are never subtracted	registrations: noted only

The PDFs

pdfs/manifest.csv has one row per PDF:

Column	Meaning
file	<month>_<kind>.pdf for a monthly report (kind is depot, brt or ebus), or other/<name>.pdf
month, kind	Read from the PDF's own title line, not from its link text
label	The Marathi link text on pmpml.org, or the original file name
source	pmpml (downloaded from pmpml.org), wayback (from the Wayback Machine) or local (downloaded earlier; URL not recorded)
url, archive_url	Where the file came from
sha256, bytes, fetched_at	To check a copy

pmpml.org lists only the last four months, so older reports are no longer linked there. The site also does not answer requests from outside India.

other/ holds PMPML's P&L statements and balance sheets (FY2017-18 to FY2024-25), yearly statistics, and two scanned Marathi registers. One register lists the grants that the Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad municipal corporations gave PMPML from 2007-08 to 2022-23. The other lists PMPML's income, expense and loss from 2007-08 to 2021-22. These two are not in the tables yet.

Sources

• PMPML monthly statistical reports: https://pmpml.org/statistics
• PMPML financial statements: https://pmpml.org/financial_performance
• Comprehensive Mobility Plan for Pimpri-Chinchwad, 2008
• Census of India 2011
• RTO vehicle registrations, Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad

Licence

The clean tables, the reference tables and the code are CC-BY-4.0. The extractor is pipeline/depot.py in the code repository. The PDFs are published by PMPML and PCMC, which state no licence. They are copied here so that reports that are no longer online stay available. Credit PMPML when you use them.