This paper evaluates the economic viability of the demand by the people of Tripura for an alternative road network. After partition in 1947, this state had lost its traditional connectivity with mainland India and overnight became a geographically sequester land. The presence of hilly terrain...

There has been rapid urbanisation in the cities of India which has led to an increase in demand for mobility. Public transport has not been able to satisfy the transportation needs of the population leading to rise in vehicle ownership. The huge numbers of private vehicles, heterogeneous traffic...

The present study tries to see whether the subsidy given to CSTC, which is the oldest and the largest state transport corporation operating in and around Kolkata, is really being used to cover the losses they make over the years or to merely cover-up an inefficient performance. The state owned...

Maritime trade has been and even continues to account for about a lion's share of India's total cargo volumes. Despite the growth of multimodal transport (by land, water and air), shipping still continues to be the major mode of transport in the bulk carriage of country's overseas trade. In view...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the pricing policy of transhipment route for India to move cargo through Bangladesh from Kolkata port to the capital city of Tripura i.e. Agartala. Initially, Bangladesh was hesitating to allow India to provide transhipment facility for the north eastern...

This paper attempts to determine the stability of equilibrium in term of a sub game perfect Nash solution of equilibrium transshipment charges for the external transport network. This paper examines the perspectives of transshipment route from Kolkata to Agartala and the strategic options of the...