Mumbai Pune Express Highway Appraisal

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Mumbai-Pune Expressway – A Feasibility Study

Contents

Introduction 3

Need for Mumbai-Pune Expressway 3

Operation and Maintenance Scope 7

Scope change of Mumbai – Pune Expressway Project 7

Benefits 7

Feasibility study 8

Role of the MSRDC 10

Financing 11

Organizational structure and operational characteristics of MSRDC 11

Critical review of Mumbai pune expressway 12

Bibliography 13

Appendix 14

Introduction

An expressway is a controlled-access highway; it is a highway that controls entrances to it and exits from it by incorporating the design of the slip roads for entry and exit into the design of the highway itself. Access-control should not be confused with collection of toll. An expressway may be free to use and may not collect toll at all. Expressways are the highest class of roads in the Indian Road Network. These are six or eight lane highways with controlled-access. India has approximately 600km expressways.

National Highway system of India consists of approximately 10,000 km (6,200 mi) of four-laned highways that collect toll from users but do not have control of access and cannot be called expressways. Currently, a massive project is underway to expand the highway network and the Government of India plans to add an additional 18,637 km (11,580 mi) of expressways to the network by the year 2022. These roads will be access-controlled roads and will feature between four and six lanes with 3,530 km (2,190 mi) km to come up in the near future. The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways is already in the process of preparing a draft for creation of a National Expressways Authority of India (NEAI) on the lines of NHAI.

Need for Mumbai-Pune Expressway

The need for the Mumbai-Pune expressway was established by a study conducted by the ministry of surface transport (MOST) during the seventh five-year plan (1985-90) which identified this corridor as amongst the three most...