NationMaster - Indian Transportation statistics

Air transport, passengers carried	27,527,740	[14th of 164]
Aircraft departures	214,300	[19th of 155]
Airports	346	[23rd of 247]
Container port traffic	4,938,226 TEU	[17th of 63]
Driving side of the road > Left or right	Left side
Heliports	30	[7th of 99]
Highways > Paved	1,517,077 km	[1st of 113]
Highways > Total	3,319,644 km	[1st of 118]
Motor vehicles	12 motor vehicles per 100 p	[104th of 134]
Pipelines condensate/gas 9 km; gas 7,488 km; liquid petroleum gas 1,861 km; oil 7,883 km; refined products 6,422 km
Ports and harbors Chennai (Madras), Cochin, Jawaharal Nehru, Kandla, Kolkata (Calcutta), Mumbai (Bombay), Vishakhapatnam
Ports and terminals Chennai, Haldia, Jawaharal Nehru, Kandla, Kolkata (Calcutta), Mormugao, Mumbai (Bombay), New Mangalore, Vishakhapatnam
Railways > Total	63,221 km	[3rd of 220]
Roads, goods transported > million ton-km	871 million ton-km	[39th of 52]
Roads, total network > km	3,383,344 km	[1st of 172]
Roadways > Paved	1,603,705 km	[1st of 81]
Roadways > Total	3,316,452 km	[2nd of 85]
Speed limit > Speed limits in specific countries > Within Towns	50-60
Vehicle abundance	2.5 per square km	[85th of 141]
Waterways	14,500 km	[5th of 165]

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SOURCES: World Development Indicators database; CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; World standards on users.pandora.be; United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook; Wikipedia: Speed limit ; World Bank, World Development Indicators 2001, Washington, DC: World Bank, 2001

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: India, Republic of India

COMMENTARY

Suchita Vemuri
Staff Editor
14th March 2005

Hi Siddharth, it's only since 1991, when the so-called economic 'liberalization' process began, that decision-makers in India have announced policies and budgets for overall 'infrastructure' development. Earlier, and in many respects even today, as the links here will show, it has been for the constituent parts of infrastructure -- roads and railways, ports and airports, telecommunications (including IT and postal services), power (electricity and oil and gas), civic services (water, sanitation and so on). The budget proposals for 2005-06 are yet to be accepted by the Indian Parliament.

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