The fleet

PMPML runs about 2,000 buses from 17 depots across Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad. These are its monthly depot reports from January 2023 to December 2025. Months with no report are left as gaps in the lines.

More buses on the road, fewer riders on each

In PMPML had buses on the road, up from in . Over the same period each bus on the road carried fewer riders a day: , down from .

The shaded band is buses held but not on the road on an average day: in repair, spare, or short of crew.

The electric buses carry the same load as the rest of the fleet: the drop is in demand, not in one kind of bus.

A quarter of the kilometres are electric

In , of the fleet's kilometres ran on compressed natural gas, on electricity and on diesel. Most electric buses are hired, with their operator's own crews.

Depots, ranked by riders per bus

A depot inside Pimpri-Chinchwad is marked in blue. Riders per bus depends on the routes a depot runs, so a low rank is a question to ask, not a verdict.