Heavy haul corridors are capital intensive and are relatively expensive to maintain. It is therefore imperative that heavy haul corridors are chosen with care, such that sufficient traffic is available on the corridors to ensure adequate returns. The strategic choice will be dictated by...

In an emerging economy, transport planners have a difficult task of allocating scarce and costly capital amongst the available shelf of railway projects to effectively meet the increasing demands for railway infrastructure. Hitherto, a single criterion such as IRR was being used for ranking and...

Data Envelopment Analysis has been used to determine the efficiency of Indian Railway compared to other large World railways, as well as compare the relative performance of Indian Railway zones and performance of Indian Railways across time. It is found that Chinese Railways, Indian Railways,...