Personal Vehicle Pooling & Sharing Association
India's urban mobility challenge is well documented, rising congestion, worsening air quality, and privately owned vehicles that remain underutilised for most of the day. Carpooling and private vehicle lending offer a practical, scalable response. Yet these services continue to operate without regulatory recognition, without tailored insurance frameworks, and without industry-wide safety standards.
Established in 2026, PVPSA is India's first industry association dedicated to personal vehicle pooling and sharing. It brings together carpooling platforms and private vehicle lending platforms under a common institutional framework, enabling structured engagement with government, regulators, and insurers on the issues that matter most to the sector.
The Association serves as a forum for policy advocacy, voluntary standard-setting, and evidence-based dialogue, working towards a regulatory environment that recognises peer-to-peer mobility for what it is, distinct from commercial transport, and enables it to contribute meaningfully to India's urban and inter-city mobility ecosystem.
Building a Cleaner,
Connected India
PVPSA has been created to give India’s peer-to-peer mobility sector a clear and credible voice. The Association brings platforms, policymakers, regulators, insurers, and other stakeholders onto a common forum. Its purpose is to support practical policy discussions, encourage responsible industry practices, and build public trust by bringing industry data, global best practices, and a unified platform perspective into conversations on the future of carpooling and private vehicle sharing in India.
To make organised peer-to-peer private vehicle services, encompassing carpooling and private vehicle lending, an integral, trusted, and appropriately regulated component of India’s urban and inter-city mobility ecosystem.
Three Pillars of Impact
Technology Meets Urban Mobility
A coalition built around shared mobility PVPSA brings together every organisation that has a stake in the peer-to-peer private mobility ecosystem. from the platforms building it, to the institutions supporting it, to the researchers studying it.
Launch of the Personal Vehicle
Pooling and Sharing Association
"India's first dedicated association for personal vehicle pooling and sharing, an important milestone in the country's mobility ecosystem."
The Personal Vehicle Pooling and Sharing Association (PVPSA) was officially launched at IIT Delhi by Shri Mayank Jyagi, Director, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways.
The launch marked an important milestone in India's mobility ecosystem, with PVPSA becoming the country's first dedicated association for personal vehicle pooling and sharing. The Association has been established to bring together platforms, stakeholders, experts, and policymakers working towards safer and more sustainable use of private vehicles in India.
The event brought together representatives from government, industry, academia, and the mobility sector to deliberate on the future of peer-to-peer mobility, regulatory clarity, road safety, congestion reduction, and the role of shared mobility in supporting India's sustainable transport goals.
The launch of PVPSA represents a significant step towards mainstreaming shared mobility as a practical, citizen-led solution for India's urban transport challenges.
Guided by Deep Expertise
Dr. Sanjeev
Kumar Lohia
Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Lohia brings to PVPSA more than three decades of distinguished service at the intersection of transport policy, urban infrastructure, and institutional reform in India. Over the course of his career, Dr. Lohia has worked across the full spectrum of urban, rail, and bus-based transportation systems, from policy formulation and project planning to implementation, institution building, public-private partnerships, and systems standardisation.
At the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), where he served as Director and subsequently as Officer on Special Duty and Ex-Officio Joint Secretary (Urban Transport), Dr. Lohia was instrumental in transforming the urban transport landscape across India through the formulation of the National Urban Transport Policy and the Metro Policy, the introduction of metro rail systems in fifteen cities, and pioneering bus modernisation programmes including the development of the first-ever Urban Bus Specifications.
He also conceptualised the National Common Mobility Card (NCMC), a single interoperable card now embedded across all RuPay Debit Cards nationwide, and was central to establishing institutions such as UTTIPEC, UMTAs, and Centres of Excellence that continue to anchor urban transport governance in India.
Dr. Lohia has most recently served as Senior Advisor, Rail, Urban Transport and E-Mobility at the World Bank, bringing international perspective to the challenges of sustainable mobility in emerging economies.
Dr. Lohia's appointment as Secretary General reflects PVPSA commitment to grounding its policy advocacy in deep institutional knowledge and proven expertise in the very systems regulatory, infrastructural, and governmental that shape India's mobility landscape.