Buses carry most overnight travellers, two-wheelers dominate the daily work commute

India’s first national travel survey finds 55.8% of overnight household journeys are by bus against 17.7% by rail; only 5% of urban worker commutes use urban mass transit such as metro, suburban rail, monorail and tramsBuses are significantly more popular than trains for overnight travel in India, with more than half of all household overnight journeys undertaken by bus, according to the country’s first-ever National Household Travel Survey released by the National Statistics Office (NSO) on Monday (October 5, 2026).