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The Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation was the first state transport undertaking in India to utilise bio-fuels and ethanol-blended fuels. [164] KSRTC took an initiative to do research in alternative fuel forms by experimenting with various alternatives — blending diesel with biofuels such as honge, palm, sunflower, groundnut, coconut ...
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]
The North–South–East–West Corridor (NS-EW) is the largest ongoing highway project in India. It is the second phase of the National Highways Development Project (NHDP), and consists of building 7300 kilometers of four/six lane highways associating Srinagar , Kanyakumari , Kochi , Porbandar and Silchar , at a cost of US$12.317 billion ...
In 1998 India launched a massive program of highway upgrades, called the National Highways Development Project (NHDP), in which the main north–south and east–west corridors and highways connecting the four metropolitan cities (Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata) have been fully paved and widened into four-lane highways. Some of the busier ...
This project, connecting four metro cities, is 5,846 km (3,633 mi). Total cost of the project is Rs.300 billion (US$6.8 billion), funded largely by the government’s special petroleum product tax revenues and government borrowing. In January 2012, India announced the four-lane GQ highway network as complete. [1] [2]
The Golden Quadrilateral project is managed by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) under the Ministry of Road, Transport and Highways. The vast majority of the system is not access controlled , although safety features such as guardrails, shoulders, and high-visibility signs are in use.
National Highways Development Project (NHDP) Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) Highways. Expressways in India; National highways in India. Golden Quadrilateral; North–South and East–West Corridor; State highways in India; Lists of NH. List of National Highways in India by highway number; List of National Highways in India by state
Major rivers of India Buckingham Canal in Andhra Pradesh A passenger ferry at Kollam Ferry Terminal in Kerala An electric boat of Kochi Water Metro. The cost of water transport in India is roughly 50 paise (0.59¢ US) a kilometre, as compared to ₹ 1 (1.2¢ US) by railways and ₹ 1.5 (1.8¢ US) by roads. [2]