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What is Railroad

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Handbook of Research on Economic, Financial, and Industrial Impacts on Infrastructure Development
A road composed of parallel steel rails supported by ties and providing a track for locomotive-drawn trains or other wheeled vehicles. It is a system of railroad track, together with the land, stations, rolling stock, and other related property under one management, usually by the state.
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Interplays Among Railway Investment, Revenue, and GDP in India: An Empirical Study
Kamal Ray (Katwa College, India), Chiranjib Neogi (West Bengal State University, India), and Ramesh Chandra Das (Vidyasagar University, India)
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 14
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2361-1.ch009
Abstract
Indian Railways is a department owned and controlled by the Government of India, via the Ministry of Railways. Progress of additional railroad construction and railway-based infrastructure of the country could be assessed with the help of interrelationship between the revenue generated with corresponding investment and growth of GDP of the country. The present chapter attempts to test two hypotheses: 1) whether there is any causal link between railway investment and GDP of the country through its revenue and 2) what are the impacts of investment, revenue on the GDP of India over time. Results show that there are bilateral causalities between investment and GDP and unilateral causality from GDP to revenue but there is no way causality between revenue and investment. Additionally, investment, not revenue, influences GDP in a significant way but the revenue elasticity of investment is insignificantly changing over time.
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