Traffic and Transportation Policies and Strategies in Urban Areas in India was conducted in 1994 to establish the urban transport scenario and forecast the anticipated issues that would most likely crop up in the future. Further to this, a National Urban Transport Policy was approved in 2006 to help in addressing the unprecedented increase in transport problems that the major cities in the country are facing.

The objective of this policy is to ensure safe, affordable, quick, comfortable, reliable and sustainable access for the growing number of city residents to jobs, education, recreation