Where Old Meets New: History Abounds in India

This article describes major transportation projects in India in light of the country's rapidly expanding economy and available resources. Different components of the six-phase National Highway Development Project (NHDP) are described, such as the $10 billion, 1,00 kilometers-long Ganga Expressway, which will be the country's single largest infrastructure project ever. This project will result in a controlled eight-lane expressway running along the River Ganga. Another project described is a somewhat controversial plan, focusing on a potential 100 kilometer-long bus rapid transit (BRT) system in Delhi that would allocate only half the roadway to cars. This mass transit improvement is meant to augment plans to upgrade the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGI), which is scheduled for completion in 2010. The airport is expected to accommodate a 20 percent annual increase in passenger traffic for the next ten years and have an ultimate design capacity of 100 million passengers a year. An additional aspect of the burgeoning transportation infrastructure in India discussed is the Bandra-Worli Sealink project involving the construction of two identical cable-stayed bridges, a 150m long bridge over the Worli Channel, and the 500m main span primary bridge over the Bandra Channel.

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• Authors:
  • Smith, Patrick
• Publication Date: 2008-3

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Photos;
• Pagination: pp 34, 35-39
• Serial:
  • World Highways/Routes du Monde
  • Volume: 17
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Route One Publishing Limited
  • ISSN: 0964-4598
  • Serial URL: http://www.worldhighways.com

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bridges; Highways; Infrastructure; Public private partnerships; Road construction
• Identifier Terms: Bandra Worli Sea Link Project
• Geographic Terms: India
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Construction; Highways; I50: Construction and Supervision of Construction;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01100515
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
• Files: BTRIS, TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 3 2008 7:30AM