Geography of Transport Development in India

The means of transport demand is constantly increasing in human life as it facilitates the movement of people and commodity from one place to other on earth surface. The progress in industrial and other productive sector is entirely related with readily available transport means at local level. And, therefore, it is necessary to have better linkages between nodes, junctions, nodel points, industrial sites, ports and airports by means and modes in reality helps to exploit available local and regional recources speedily for human welfare. Dr. B.C. Vaidya has rightly considered this transport aspect as a spatial expression at national and regional level besides metropolitan transport system as a factor of movement. This book, thus, would be certainly valuable as guideline to planners, geographers, economists, academicians, researchers and others who are keen to know Indian transport development.