Indian transportation systems have seen significant development over time. Railways were introduced in 1853 and now carry over 20 million passengers daily on 9,000 trains across 28 states. Road transportation has the largest network at over 3.3 million km, including national highways, state highways, and rural roads. Air travel began in 1932 and continues to expand with over 335 airports. Sea transport is managed by the Shipping Corporation of India and handles about 95% of foreign trade by volume. The government has implemented various strategies to overcome issues and further develop transportation infrastructure across India.

7. Railways were introduced to India in 1853
Air India began its operations as
Tata Airlines in 1932

9.  Minister of Road Transport and Highways : Shri Kamal Nath.
 India has a large road network of over 3.314 million kilometers of roadways
making it the third largest road network in the world
 The National Highways represent only 2% of the total network length, they
handle about 40% of the total road traffic.
 The Expressways of India make up approximately 2000 km of the Indian
National Highway System.
 It is expected that about 3,75,000 km of new road construction and
3,72,000 km of up gradation/renewal would be undertaken.
 Large portion of Indian road ways include Auto Rickshaws, Taxi and
Personal vehicles.
 USD 70 billion to be spent on Indian roadways development in coming 3
years.
 Golden quadrilateral consists of building 5,846 km (3,633 mi) of
four/six lane express highways at a cost of Rs. 60,000cr.

10. Indian Road Network
Class Length (km)
National
66,754
Highways/Expressways
State Highways 128,000
Major district roads 470,000
Rural & other roads 2,650,000
Total (approx) 3,314,754
Paved Roads
Class Percent (%)
Paved Roads (% of 2 lane
34
roads)
Paved Roads (% of 4 lane
1
roads)
Paved Roads (% of total road
47.3
network)

12. Indian railways
 The ministry of Indian railways is headed by Mamata Banerjee .
 Indian Railways is administered by the Railway Board, which has a
financial commissioner, five members and a chairman.
 With approximately 1.6 million employees, Indian Railways is the country's
single largest employer.
 Indian Railways operates about 9,000 passenger trains and transports 20
million passengers daily across twenty-eight states and two union
territories.
 The Lifeline Express is a special train popularly known as the "Hospital-on-
Wheels" which provides healthcare to the rural areas.
 Indian Railways makes 70% of its revenues and most of its profits from the
freight sector, and uses these profits to cross-subsidise the loss-making
passenger sector.
 India has rail links with Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh. It also plans to
install a rail system in southern Bhutan. A move to link the railways of
India and Sri Lanka never materialized.
 Revenue Rs 88,355 crore (US$ 19.17 billion) (2009-10)

13. 42 Railway companies operated in the
country before independence

14. Indian Aviation
 Praful Patel is the Minister of Civil Aviation.
 As of 30 October 2007 the total fleet size of commercial airlines
in India is 439.
 There are more than 335 civilian airports in India. 250 with paved
runways and 96 with unpaved runways and more than 20
international airports in the Republic of India.
 The Indira Gandhi International Airport and the Chhatrapati
Shivaji International Airport handle more than half of the air
traffic in South Asia.
 Passengers carried from domestic airlines from Jan – July 2010
was 257.10 lakhs against 210.57 lakhs in 2009-2010.
 Kingfisher airlines has ordered 5 Airbus A-380.

15. Ministry of Civil Aviation
Operating Operating
Year
Revenues Profit/(Loss)
2009 41,015 (1,347)
2010 46,498 1,251
Company Market share
Jet Airways and
25.9%
Jet Lite
Kingfisher
21.4%
Airlines
NACIL 18.2%
IndiGo 15.7%
SpiceJet 12.6%
GoAir 5.9%
Paramount
0.3%
Airways

16. Sea ways
 Indian shipping minister is G.K.VASAN
 India has a long coastline spanning 7600 kilometres forming one of
the biggest peninsulas in the world
 Maritime transportation in India is managed by the Shipping
Corporation of India
 The ports are the main centres of trade. In India about 95% of the
foreign trade by quantity and 70% by value takes place through the
ports.
 The total navigable length is 14,500 kilometres (9,000 mi), out of
which about 5,200 km (3,231 mi) of river and 485 km (301 mi) of
canals can be used by mechanised crafts
 there are 102 shipping companies operating in India, of which five
were privately owned and based in India and one was owned by the
government
 It takes an average of 21 days to clear import cargo in India
compared to just 3 in Singapore

18. PIPELINES
• Pipelines transport products like natural gas, crude
oil, or petroleum products.
• Length of pipelines for crude oil is 20,000 km
(12,427 mi).
• Length of Petroleum products pipeline is 268 km
(167 mi).
• Length of Natural gas pipelines is 1,700 km
(1,056 mi).

19. MARKETING STRATEGIES
• Fares for AC I class and AC- 2 tier classes have been
reduced. The reduction is more during the lean
period in non popular trains.
• New ticket booking strategies in Indian aviation.
• Tatkal policy.
• Sleeper busses amount metro cities.
• Online booking of tickets in all the modes of
transport.
• The popular package tour Coral Reef is a five-day
cruise on the new passenger ship M.V. Arabian Sea.
• Chocolates and water bottles in special busses.

20. Problems of transport sector
Roads not maintained
properly
Traffic jams
Improper railway track
Maintenance.

21.  Uneven development of roads and other
amenities in rural areas
 Ports are congested and seriously lacks
modern technology
 Airports are still not capable of handling
continuous inflow and outflow
 Over dependence on lorries and trucks
rather than railways.

22. Key Government Strategies
to overcome problems
 Increasing public funding for transportation in its Five
Year Plans.
 Improving rural access by launching the Pradhan Mantri
Gram Sadak Yojana
 Reducing the congestion on rail corridors along the
highly trafficked Golden Quadrilateral and improving
port
 Enhancing sector capacity and improving efficiencies
through clear policy directive for greater private sector
participation.
 Privatization and expansion of the Mumbai and New
Delhi Airports and development of new international
airports at Hyderabad and Bangalore.

23. INNOVATIONS
 Ahmedabad - Janmarg, India: Bus Rapid
Transit System
 Aviation Emissions Reduction Roadmap
 Introductory Statement for Session on
Intelligent Infrastructure
 care-free road.
 Navigation systems
 hybrid vehicles
 green vehicles and bio fuel.
 Hybrid electric trucks

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