Sri Lanka, July 7 -- Bus transportation serves as the primary mode of daily passenger travel in Sri Lanka, currently operated by a combination of the Sri Lanka Transport Board and numerous independent private owners.

The existing operational framework leads to issues including intense competition, failure to adhere to schedules, excessive buses on routes, unsafe driving practices, passenger inconvenience, traffic congestion, service imbalances, and inefficient resource utilisation.

Many countries successfully mitigate these challenges through bus sector clustering, which brings services within a single transit corridor or geographical area under integrated management.

By transitioning from individual operations to coordinated service c...