Kochi Metro Rail Limited (KMRL) would ink an MoU with National Transportation Planning and Research Centre (NATPAC) in a week’s time, to conduct a three-month-long study to identify measures in order to increase patronage in Kochi Metro, and its waterway extension - the Kochi Water Metro.
While over one lakh people commuted in Water Metro ferries that were commissioned over a week ago, Kochi Metro that was commissioned in 2017 has been struggling to attain the one lakh commuters per day figure.
Sources said that officials of NATPAC, whose Kochi regional office began functioning in April, held meetings with their metro counterparts in order to suggest ways to increase footfalls in the two modern, air-conditioned systems of public transport.