urban Passengers for the years 2021,2026, 2031, 2041 and 2051

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urban Passengers for the years 2021,2026, 2031, 2041 and 2051 Preparation of National Rail Plan (NRP) – India

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National Rail Plan - India
Executive
Summary

Preparation of National Rail Plan (NRP) – India
Executive Summary
  Draft Final Report
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
0.1. Background
Indian Railways is the 4th largest railway network in the world by size with 123,542
kilometres of total tracks over a 67,415 Kms route. In the fiscal year ending March
2019, IR carried 8.4 billion passengers and transported 1.2 billion tonnes of
freight. Indian Railways runs 13,523 passenger trains and 9,146 freight trains daily
on its network with passenger trains running at an average speed of 50.6kmph and
freight trains at 24kmph. As of March 2019, Indian Railways rolling stock consisted
of 2,89,185 freight wagons, 74,003 passenger coachers and 12,147 locomotives.
Indian Railways had 1.3 million employees making it world’s eighth largest
employer.
Now moving forward and with a vision to develop Indian Railways as a world class
system which shall be able to cater to the demand by keeping pace with growth and
compliment the economic development, Ministry of Railways has envisioned the
preparation of National Rail Plan (NRP) for India keeping the year 2050 as the
horizon. For this purpose, Ministry of Railways has mandated RITES Limited to
provide advisory services by further appointing a Consultant. In pursuance of the
above and to enable preparation of National Rail Plan, the RITES have assigned the
study to M/s AECOM India Private Limited.
0.2. Vision and Objectives of the Plan
The study was envisaged with keeping a following vision ….
 “To enhance rail freight share …
… to prepare a compressive strategy for the Rail Sector in the form of
National Rail Plan for creation of adequate capacity by 2030 that will cater
to the demand up to 2050 i.e. to develop capacity ahead of demand”
Keeping the vision in mind, the study is planned to meet the following objectives
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To assess Present & Future Modal Share of Railways
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To examine Capacity Utilization of Existing Railways Assets
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To provide a Long-Term Rail Development plan to meet demand for:

Dedicated
Freight
Corridor

High Speed Rail

Doubling of lines

Signalling

Electrification of Entire
Network

160 
kmph 
Speed 
on
Selected Corridors

Passenger Stations

Freight Terminals

Rolling Stock
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To identify Options, Evaluation and Prioritization of projects
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Funding Requirements and Financing Strategies for identified projects

Preparation of National Rail Plan (NRP) – India
Chapter 12- Future Network Requirements – HUN
  Draft Final Report
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0.3. Rail Network Mapping
One of the key tasks of NRP was to map the entire Indian Railway Network at GIS
Platform along with their respective attributes and line features. This massive
exercise was carried out as part of the study and entire network was mapped on GIS
platform.
For the preparation of map for the Indian Rail Network, an authentic reference in
the form of raster data was required. Based on this reference data, rail network has
been digitized on GIS platform.
The maps of different zonal railways along with the information like line hierarchy
(single, double, triple lines etc.), stations, closed lines, loop lines, lines under
upgradation etc. were collected. These zonal maps collected were scanned, geo-
referenced and digitised to convert them from paper maps to digital maps
synchronised at GIS platform. All the features of a section were than attached as an
attribute table so that with click of a mouse all the information about that section is
visible on screen.
Geo Referencing of the System Maps
Geo referencing means to associate something with locations in physical space. Geo
referencing can be applied to any kind of object or structure that can be related to a
geographical location, such as roads, places, bridges, or buildings.
System map for all zones were scanned, and geo-referenced on GIS Map. Thus,
these geo-referenced maps formed the base for digitization of the railway network.
The geo-referenced maps have been vectorised or digitised in d

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