Test: Transportation Introduction

The main objective of a good transportation system is to provide safe economical, efficient transportation for the facility of passengers and transport of goods.

Increased productivity of various items such as agricultural and their distribution can lower the cost of products. The cost of transportation substantially reduces the prices.

The other 3 types of transport systems have to depend upon the roads to reach their destination point from the terminals that is railway station, harbours and airports.

The Roadway requires a cheaper initial investment when compared to the other 3 networks and it is the only system that provides equal facility for everyone in the society.

The PMGSY aims to connect all the villages of population above 1000 by 2003 and population below 500 by 2007 it later became a part of bharat nirman programme.

The road density is mean length of state roads per 100km2 so it is highly uneven in India.

The PMGSY was launched in the year 2000. The main aim of this programme was to connect the rural roads by the year 2007.

The total roadway length in India is around5, 532,482km in march 2015 which is the 2nd largest network in the world.

The highway works all across the country are undertaken by NHAI, It was formed in 1988 and it has mandate to follow all the NHDP (national highway development programme) which is implemented in phases.

The scope of highway engineering is divided into 2 parts called phases and details. In these phases overall review is given and in the details it is planned in detail.