The full cost of a road trip, including tolls and the wear the distance puts on the car, compared against the fare for going by train or air. Comparing a fare to fuel alone is the mistake: it leaves out tolls and the several rupees a kilometre the car itself costs.
Also called: road trip cost calculator, travel cost calculator.
₹11,306 in all, or ₹3,769 each between 3. Fuel is 5906.25 of it and tolls 1400, with 3600 of wear and depreciation the distance costs whether or not anyone accounts for it. Cash out of pocket is 7706.25; the true cost is 11306.25. Enter a fare each to compare against the train or a flight, remembering to compare against the whole cost and not the fuel alone.
| Item | Amount | Each |
|---|---|---|
| Fuel | ₹5,906 | ₹1,969 |
| Tolls | ₹1,400 | ₹467 |
| Parking and extras | ₹400 | ₹133 |
| Accommodation | ₹0 | ₹0 |
| Wear and depreciation | ₹3,600 | ₹1,200 |
Fuel, tolls and extras are the cash costs and the easy part. The comparison against a fare is where people go wrong, because they weigh a train ticket against fuel alone and ignore both the tolls and the wear. A car costs several rupees a kilometre in tyres, servicing and depreciation regardless of the fuel, and a long trip consumes that at the same rate as any other kilometre. The page shows the cash cost and the true cost separately, and splits both by the number of people, because sharing is what usually decides the comparison rather than the mode itself.
fuel plus the fixed costs of the journey, with the per-kilometre wear shown separately because it is real and invisibleEach of these is asserted on every build. If a change to the engine ever moved one of these answers, the build would fail before the page could print it.
Trip cost₹11,306
900 km of fuel, tolls both ways, and 4 a kilometre of wear
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boundary: cheaper than driving once tolls and wear are counted, dearer than the fuel alone
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