Practical, plain-English answers for everyday riders — kept up to date by the BusPe team.
Delhi's bus network is the largest in India — thousands of buses, two operators, and its own vocabulary of route numbers, ticket colours and passes. These guides explain how it all works, whether you ride every day or just landed in the city.
What a ticket costs on AC and non-AC buses, how to pay, how bus passes work — and the August 2026 change every woman riding free on pink tickets needs to know about.
Red, green and orange buses are run by different operators under different rules. Here's what that means for your ticket, your pass and your wait at the stop.
What the numbers and letters on the destination board actually tell you, what a Mudrika is, and how to avoid boarding the "same" bus going somewhere slightly different.
Delhi publishes the real-time GPS position of nearly every DTC and cluster bus as open data. How the feed works, and how to use it to stop guessing at the bus stop.
© BusPe. Guides are informational; fares and policies are set by DTC/GNCTD and can change — always check dtc.delhi.gov.in for official notices.