A committee formed by Indian Railways submitted a report identifying bottlenecks hindering freight growth and proposing a roadmap to achieve 9-15% growth. The committee analyzed past traffic patterns and projected high growth in sectors like coal. It estimated freight loading could reach 1500 million tons by 2018-19 but noted growth over 9% requires removing short-term bottlenecks like capacity issues and long-term ones like developing dedicated freight corridors by 2019. The report recommended improving infrastructure, expanding private terminals, liberalizing policies around wagons and using satellite services for safety and tracking.