Transporting India to the 2030s: What do we need to do?

Abstract

The focus of this paper is on the transportation needs of the country over the next couple of decades, and what we need to do to satisfy them. This might seem to be a relatively narrow area of policy to address but, as will become clearer, if we do not make transport investments in the right manner, it will be difficult to achieve the kind of growth rates, around 7-9 per cent per year, that India should aspire to in order to reach middle income level by the early to mid 2030s, and to have any chance of eliminating poverty by then.