Question 16GS3GS3

The transportation and logistic cost as measured in the National Logistics Policy is 10-12% of GDP, while the goal is to reach 8%.

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Effective Multimodal Transport: 1) Logistics Efficiency a Improvement in modal mix of Rail : Road : Waterways Currently 60:30:10, best required is 25:45:30 b Using the economies of scale approach 20 total buses (Water bound) on Rail (buses on (Inland waterways) Shipping 2) Reducing transportation costs: a Inland waterways is much cheaper than road on rail But still just 1% of transport b Rail freight charges can be reduced by (High-speed freight dedicated) corridors - DFCs c Best use of integrated port rail road and river distribution eg Kolkata port to Haldia port from waterway

2Reducing transportation costs continued: 3) Minimizing environmental impacts: a Road is used for 60% of freight by Rail was much less with lesser emission b IWT vessels are significantly lower polluting c Hydrogen based ferry - (Rock water metro) Measures to ensure efficient transport: 1) Increase the fleet of Indian ships eg (Currently only 1%) of the world. 2) Usage of cross-transportation eg (Bokaro to Rawlks) for both coal and iron ore rail 3) Reduce cross-subsidization in the railway sector 4) Use of unique transporties method eg (Bengaluru monorail) 0 (Mussoorie Cable car) - (Parvathsa scheme) 5) Correcting the modal mix for efficient transportation

The transport sector requires the leveraging of schemes like Sadan Yojana and UDAN scheme for efficiency of multi-modality.

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The transport sector requires the leveraging of schemes like Sadan Yojana and UDAN scheme for efficiency of multi-modality.

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Aditya Talwar

AIR 2702025

Subject & Paper

GS3GS3

Topic

Land Reforms, Liberalization, Infrastructure & Investment

Transport and Mobility

Multimodal Transport and logistics efficiency

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