new delhi delhi saw a 994 increase in the number of vehicles in 201516 among them auto rickshaws clocked the highest growth at 14272 interestingly the period also saw a phenomenal annual growth in buses7419 and ambulances9581 these are the highlights of the delhi governments economic survey 201617 according to the survey report during 201516 the number of vehicles per 1000 population was 530 a significant jump from 491 the previous year it was only 317 a decade ago in fact the annual growth rate of vehicles in 200506 was 813 as opposed to 994 in 201516 the previous year it was only 689 incidentally according to the transport department the number of vehicles registered in delhi has crossed the onecrore mark by december 2016 meanwhile the delhi metro has expanded its network with phase iii set to take it to over 300km the survey reveals that the two new corridors of phase iii are scheduled to become operational this year along with the extension of line 5 to bahadurgarh the dwarkanajafgarh corridor is set to be commissioned in 2017 as well the economic survey also lists the addition of 517 buses to the delhi metro feeder bus system the survey shows a steady fall in the ridership of dtc buses the average daily ridership was 3537 lakh in 201516 this is a significant fall from the 4677 lakh commuters in 201213 or even the 3887 lakh who took bus rides in 201415 meanwhile the number of cluster buses in 201516 was 1490 with a daily ridership of 1061 lakh the fleet utilisation was 9884 in the cluster bus system as opposed to the 8363 of dtc buses the survey also makes a point about the delhi government coming up with more bus rapid transit brt corridors but does not give details on these projects it lists the ambedkar nagarmoolchand brt as an operational corridor though it was dismantled last year the survey says that renovation work of the anand vihar and dwarka isbts have been handed over to pwd while work on the sarai kale khan isbt is being undertaken in two phases tnn published on mar 9 2017 at 0840 am ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis download etauto app get realtime updates save your favourite articles scan to download app vehicles in delhi delhi auto rickshaws delhi metro delhi government delhi traffic economic survey homenewsdelhi clocks 994 growth in no of vehicles in fy16