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SMART MOBILITY 2018

Apart from the green field way only one side of the existing
corridors that I have just spoken road. This can reduce 50% the
about, we have taken another cost. In some roads where we
approach. About 90% of projects have adopted this, we have found There is a
taken for execution through NHAI it much more useful in terms of mismatch
or NHIDCL or through the state expediting the processes and
PWDs are brown-filed project. damage control and also in terms between the
Existing roads, state highways or of execution of the projects space availability
major district roads have also been because having acquired it on
taken up. The existing National one side, particularly for divided and the demand
Highways are planned to be carriageway, the execution of the that comes along
developed as NHs with different project is much faster, seamless,
sets of configurations depending without any disturbance to with the growth of
on the traffic. the running traffic under any this sector which
The moment we do circumstances. perhaps would be
development on an existing road, Bharatmala phase - I which is
we face four major challenges. 24,800kms, comprises of about best addressed
The additional land for right of 9000kms of economic corridors, by bringing in
way that one acquires since it about another 5000kms of inter
is situated on an existing road, routes and feeder routes, about improvements in
is three to four times more 5000kms of the national corridor road design
expensive as compared to what improvements, that is Golden
would be acquired for a greenfield Quadrilateral as well as North-
alignment. Secondly, you end up South-East-West corridors and
incurring huge expenditure, time close to 2000kms of roads for
and effort on shifting of utilities connectivity of ports or coastal
which are already laid and felling roads. Now that being the
of trees which have been planted combination, we already have a to road safety and the behaviour
along those existing roads. of vehicles on the roads. Apart
plan ahead of us till 2022. from road engineering, it talks of
Fourthly, on many locations,
some structures need to be The construction of road leads the engineering of the automobile
demolished in order to have a on to the next challenge and that sector and the kind of safety
clean working front. All these is Road Safety. The Expo reinforces devices needed in the vehicles. The
four factors not only become time that in the next four to five years challenge is rather too huge in the
consuming, difficult to overcome road safety is going to remain sense that we have been seeing
but also significantly add to the the focus, IT is going to play a a growth of about 15% year-on-
costs. So, we have been able now major role in terms of road safety, year in the automobile sector.
to partially address the challenges intelligent transport management According to our Minister Nitin
with a decision that any brown- systems have to be in place, the Gadkari, if the automobile growth
field project where it is proposed accident rate has to be reduced. continues at the present pace,
to be developed as an NH, we The second part of the Ministry’s then, we need to construct an
would acquire additional right of plan addresses the issues related additional lane every three years. .

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