Vision 2020 - Transportation Research Group of India

Government of India
Ministry of Railways
(Railway Board)
The above implies a CAGR around 8% and an average lead of 650 kms as at present. However, given the goal of
high growth and the need to keep ahead of GDP growth, planning must be done on the basis of 10% growth per
annum. On this basis and assuming that Indian Railways shall pursue an aggressive customer-centric and
market-focused high growth strategy, expected freight loading and movement for the years of years of 2011-12
and 2019-20 would reach the following level:
Table-9:
2011-12 2019-20
Originating loading 1010 2165
(MT)
NTKMs (Billions) 656 1407
4.1.11 Market Share
Railways will aim at capturing 50% of the freight moving over 300 kms distance and more than 70% of the bulk
cargo moving in large volumes in the same distance range.
Vision for Freight Services
Freight services would be transformed by segregation of freight and passenger corridors, construction of
dedicated freight corridors, improving the speed of transit, cost-efficiencies in bulk transport and meeting the
needs of customers in terms of service delivery, logistics services, transit time and tariff.
4.2 Passenger Business
IR's passenger traffic has been growing at a fast pace in the recent years. The following tables show the trends of
passenger growth over the last five years and the composition of the traffic in 2007-08, respectively.
Table-10: Growth of Passenger Traffic on IR:
Originating % change Passenger kms % change Passenger % change
passenger over previous (billion) over previous revenue over
(Million) year year (Rs.crores) previous year
2003-04 5112 2.84 541.2 5.08 13260 5.73
2004-05 5378 5.20 575.7 6.37 14073 6.13
2005-06 5725 6.45 615.6 6.93 15081 7.16
2006-07 6219 8.63 694.8 12.86 17176 13.89
2007-08 6524 4.90 770.0 8.82 19811 15.34
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