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As of 2021, 64.5% of all goods in India are moved through the country's road network, 90% of India's total passenger traffic uses the road network to commute and the road network contributes 4.8% to the country's gross domestic product. [25] In 2023, India's road network became the world's second largest, after the United States. [26]
Renumbered National Highways map of India (schematic) The national highways in India are a network of limited access roads owned by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways. National highways have flyover access or some controlled-access, where entrance and exit is through the side of the flyover. At each highway intersection, flyovers are ...
This is a list of countries (or regions) by total road network size, both paved and unpaved.Also included is additional data on road network density and the length of each country or region's controlled-access highway network (also known as a motorway, expressway, freeway, etc.), designed for high vehicular traffic.
Schematic map of National Highways in India. On 28 April 2010, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways officially published a new numbering system for the National Highway network in the Gazette of the Government of India. [1] [2] It is a systematic numbering scheme based on the orientation and the geographic location of the highway. This ...
As per 2024 estimates, the total road length in India is 6,700,000 km (4,200,000 mi); making the Indian road network the largest road network in the world. At 0.66 km of highway per square kilometre of land the density of India's highway network is higher than that of the United States (0.65) and far higher than that of China's (0.16) or Brazil ...
This is a list of the States of India ranked by the length of the state highways, as of 31 March 2012. [3] State Highways are the arterial roads in a State for inter-district movements. They traverse the length and width of a state connecting the state capital, district headquarters and important towns and cities and link up with the National ...
Bharatmala is an ecosystem of road development which includes tunnels, bridges, elevated corridors, flyovers, overpass, interchanges, bypasses, ring roads etc. to provide shortest & optimized connectivity to multiple places, it is a centrally-sponsored and funded road and highways project of the Government of India [6] with a target of ...
Apart from these, Narketpally–Addanki–Medarametla Road, which began its life as state highway, is now a national highway, following the bifurcation of united Andhra Pradesh into Andhra Pradesh and Telangana in 2014. It is administered by the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana for their respective segments.