Many nations across the world are building High Speed Railways Network. Recently, one of the Major entrants into this sector is the Republic of India. India already has a vast and well-established network of Railways. Though it is run professionally, there are still certain shortcomings of the...

Indore is a typical tier-2 town in the central province of India, fast becoming a regional commercial hub in an economically booming state. The city has a population of over 2 million with no significant public transport. Among the multiple options available, the city started implementing a...

We study the interaction between transit improvements and land use policies in the context of Bengaluru, one of India's largest cities. The city inaugurated a metro system in 2011. Yet it has low building heights even near metro stations, reflecting low floor-area ratio limits. We construct a...

Reducing gender-specific commuting barriers in developing countries has complex and diverse effects on women's labor dynamics. We study a program that offers free bus rides for women in several Indian states (the Pink Slip program) using a synthetic difference-in-differences approach to shed...

Infrastructure development is the key to sustainable growth in India. It makes India globally competitive, raises standard of living, enhances profits for government, bridges rural-urban divide and increases level of employment. The most significant criteria for a continued growth rate of an...

Private sector participation through Public Private Partnerships is increasingly being used as a means for delivering physical infrastructure amidst increasingly constrained public budgets and inadequate service delivery. The Government of India, which is currently grappling with a crippling...

The most significant criteria for the continued growth rate of an economy rests on the provision of quality infrastructure. The Indian government finds it difficult to provide the required financial and technical resources and the executive capacity to cope with the rising demand for roads,...

In this paper, a framework for risk management at railways has been studied and integrated into global safety management system of railways. Furthermore we studied how it was applied to a manually controlled full barrier road rail level crossing in Morocco. We studied different aspects that...

India has one of the largest rail networks in the world but has no line which can be classified as HSR allowing operational speed of 125 mph. The current fastest train runs at 100 mph over a distance of only around 100 miles. However, supported by a robust political willingness, a new HSR...

Many metropolitan cities in Asia are planning and implementing extensive investment in mass transit networks and thus are now on the threshold of becoming transit cities or car traffic saturation cities. The promotion of transit-oriented development (TOD) policies will be a key to the...