Yet while rail is among the most energy efficient modes of transport for freight and passengers, it is often neglected in public debate. The Future of Rail examines how the role of rail in global transport might be elevated as a means to reduce the energy use and environmental impacts associated with transport.
The future of rail will be determined by how it responds to both rising transport demand and rising pressure from competing transport modes. Rising incomes and populations in developing and emerging economies, where cities are growing exponentially, are set to lead to strong demand for more efficient, faster and cleaner transportation transport, but the need for speed and flexibility tend to favour car ownership and air travel.
Rising incomes also drive demand growth in freight, where higher incomes, have sharply increased demand for rapid delivery of higher value and lighter goods. The rail sector has important advantages to exploit in competing for business, but this will require additional strategic investments in rail infrastructure, further efforts to improve commercial competitiveness, and technological innovation.
The Future of Rail outlines in a Base Scenario how the railway system and its energy needs are projected to evolve to on the basis of announced policies, regulations and projects. A more ambitious High Rail Scenario rests on three main pillars: minimising costs per passenger-kilometre or tonne-kilometre moved, maximising revenues from rail systems, and ensuring that all forms of transport pay not only for the use of the infrastructure they need, but also for the adverse impacts they generate.
This scenario shows the extent to which a significant shift of passengers and goods to rail transport could be achieved, highlighting environmental and financial implications and the policy instruments which might be deployed.
In both of the scenarios the rail sector experiences strong electrification, and therefore energy diversification. For example, on average, each Indian travels about 3 kilometres per day by privately owned road vehicle, compared to In fact, rail activity in India is set to grow more than any other country. Today, the conventional rail system in India comprises a total route length of almost km, shared between passenger and freight transport.
Metro systems exist in 10 Indian cities, with about km of track in operation and an additional km of metro rail under construction. A further km of metro lines are planned for the next few years. For now, India does not have any high-speed rail. However, in India and Japan signed an agreement to develop a high-speed rail line connecting the cities of Ahmedabad and Mumbai, to come into operation in Choose your reason below and click on the Report button.
This will alert our moderators to take action. Nifty 17, Honeywell 45, Market Watch. ET NOW. Brand Solutions. Video series featuring innovators. ET Financial Inclusion Summit. Malaria Mukt Bharat. Rates for road transportation are also unstable and unequal, while the speed in road transport is slow and limited, which is a major drawback.
Transporting bulky goods over long distances is also unsuitable and costly. In modern days, road transport has a serious negative impact on the environment. Building roads requires melting of tar or formulation of concrete, which may harm the associated environment. Since roads have been a major enabler of motorised transport, these vehicles also emit a lot of pollution in the form of Nitrogen dioxide, volatile organic compounds, carbon monoxide and various harmful air pollutants, including benzene, which have an adverse respiratory health effects and a serious threat to global warming.
While improvisation of roads is a serious topic of research, road transport of the future includes aspects like solar panel roads and cars where solar cells have replaced asphalt or tar, and there are vehicles with electric motors reducing emission.
Road transport of the future aims to work on these negativities and turn them around. Definition: Rail transport is also known as train transport. Since this system runs on metal usually steel rails and wheels, it has an inherent benefit of lesser frictional resistance which helps attach more load in terms of wagons or carriages.
This system is known as a train. Usually, trains are powered by an engine locomotive running on electricity or on diesel.
Complex signaling systems are utilised if there are multiple route networks. Rail transport is also one of the fastest modes of land transport. Description: Rail transport has emerged as one of the most dependable modes of transport in terms of safety.
Trains are fast and the least affected by usual weather turbulences like rain or fog, compared to other transport mechanisms. Rail transport is better organised than any other medium of transport. It has fixed routes and schedules. Its services are more certain, uniform and regular compared to other modes of transport. Rail transport originated from human hauled contraptions in ancient Greece. Now it has evolved into a modern, complex and sophisticated system used both in urban and cross-country and continent networks over long distances.
Rail transport is an enabler of economic progress, used to mobilise goods as well as people. Adaptations include passenger railways, underground or over ground urban metro railways and goods carriages. Rail transport has some constraints and limitations also. Since buses are barred from using the mountain road into the Ferghana Valley for safety reasons, almost everyone travels by car or shared taxi.
In , an estimated 10, vehicles per day travelled across the pass. About a quarter of those are trucks, hauling about 7 million tons of freight. Once the line is up and running, it will take , tons of CO2 a year out of the atmosphere. The World Bank brings its expertise and long experience to reforming and managing railways.
Today, the World Bank is doing railway research and analysis in over 20 countries. The World Bank also develops and applies knowledge in rail sector governance, developing multi-modal linkages and poverty impact for its client worldwide. You have clicked on a link to a page that is not part of the beta version of the new worldbank.
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