Volvo Buses India Private Limited (VBIPL), a subsidiary of Volvo Bus Corporation of Sweden, today announced setting up of Consultancy services in India. The objective of the new service is to bring together Volvo Buses experience and expertise from across the globe in creating projects that will provide sustainable solutions customised for a city’s transportation needs.
Announcing this at a press conference, here today, Akash Passey, managing director, VBIPL said, Volvo will create modern vehicle and transport management system so that state road transport corporations can streamline their operations, reduce costs and provide passengers better service. The service will partner with various stakeholders in the process besides the customer organisation, he said.
The service will include manpower based in Sweden and in India who will operate on project basis with customers and also partner with allied local agencies in the development. Projects on this account are already on the anvil, he said. The company will help state transport corporations to understand passenger behaviours and enable them offer attractive solutions to suit their requirements, he said.
Passey said in the next five years, Volvo Buses is looking at generating at least 50 per cent of its total revenues from consultancy services division. “Rapid urbanisation creates an enormous challenge for civic authorities and the cost in terms of fuel, lack of business mobility, and safety are enormous.
Volvo Buses has created high-efficiency bus-based transport systems that make it far more attractive to travel by public transport. Volvo has delivered more buses for BRT Systems than any other supplier in the world. A few of the cities Volvo works with on mass bus transport systems include Bogotá in Colombia, Mexico City in Mexico, Göteborg in Sweden, York in Britain and Curitiba in Brazil,” Passey said.
He said during 2009, Volvo will focus on city segment through various long and short-term initiatives.
“Today, we have the most intense city transport model in Bangalore, Mysore, Chennai and Pune, which will support the city planning process where de-congestion remains the top priority. As the market leader globally, we have the expertise and the products to support this development and are now ready to bring it into India in a focused manner through a separate consultancy services division,” Passey added.
