Transport Network in UP

What the official syllabus says

UPPCS Main Examination, General Studies VI.

Transport Network in UP.

Topics in detail

Learn each mode of transport with its main routes and nodes, the agencies that build and run them, and how the network serves the regions of the state. Projects under construction change quickly; confirm their status before the exam.

Roads

• Classes of roads: national highways, state highways, major district roads, other district roads and village roads
• Expressways and the Uttar Pradesh Expressways Industrial Development Authority (UPEIDA)
• Yamuna Expressway (Greater Noida to Agra)
• Agra-Lucknow Expressway
• Purvanchal Expressway (Lucknow to Ghazipur)
• Bundelkhand Expressway (Chitrakoot to Etawah)
• Gorakhpur Link Expressway
• Ganga Expressway (Meerut to Prayagraj)
• Delhi-Meerut Expressway
• Industrial corridors planned along expressways
• National highways crossing UP: NH-19 (Delhi-Agra-Kanpur-Prayagraj-Varanasi, the old Grand Trunk Road), NH-27 (the East-West Corridor through Jhansi, Kanpur, Lucknow and Gorakhpur), NH-44 (the North-South Corridor through Mathura, Agra and Jhansi)
• The Golden Quadrilateral's Delhi-Kolkata arm and the Bharatmala programme
• Road density of UP compared with other states
• Rural roads: Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana in UP
• Road safety: accident black spots, the state road safety policy
• Road transport: the Uttar Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (UPSRTC), bus stations, electric buses in cities

Railways

• Railway zones with headquarters in UP: North Central Railway (Prayagraj) and North Eastern Railway (Gorakhpur)
• Major junctions: Lucknow, Kanpur, Prayagraj, Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Junction (Mughalsarai), Gorakhpur, Jhansi, Agra, Moradabad
• Dedicated freight corridors: the Eastern DFC (through UP to Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Junction and beyond) and the Western DFC (starting at Dadri)
• High-speed regional rail: the Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut Regional Rapid Transit System (Namo Bharat)
• Metro rail in Lucknow, Kanpur, Agra, Noida and Ghaziabad

Air transport

• International airports: Lucknow (Chaudhary Charan Singh), Varanasi (Lal Bahadur Shastri), Kushinagar, Ayodhya (Maharishi Valmiki) and the Noida International Airport at Jewar
• Domestic airports such as Prayagraj, Gorakhpur, Kanpur, Agra and Bareilly, and the regional connectivity scheme (UDAN)
• Air cargo and the export of perishables

Waterways

• National Waterway 1 on the Ganga (Prayagraj to Haldia)
• The multi-modal terminal at Varanasi
• Prospects and limits of inland water transport in UP: depth of water, seasonal flow

Pipelines and logistics

• Oil and gas pipelines serving the Mathura refinery and the gas network
• Inland container depots, logistics parks and warehousing
• Multi-modal connectivity and the PM Gati Shakti plan

Issues

• Regional gaps in connectivity: Bundelkhand and the eastern districts
• Congestion in cities and the need for public transport
• Land acquisition and funding of projects
• Environmental effects of highways

Overlaps

Infrastructure for India (energy, ports, roads, airports, railways) is in General Studies III; partnerships for transport projects on Public-Private Partnership.