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What is Road Density

Chapter 10
Handbook of Research on Economic, Financial, and Industrial Impacts on Infrastructure Development
The Ratio of the Length of the Country's total road network to the country's land area.
Published in Chapter:
Trend, Growth, and Problems of Road Transport in India
Kabita Kumari Sahu (North Orissa University, India)
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 23
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2361-1.ch010
Abstract
The objectives of the present chapter are to analyze the trend, growth, problems of road transport and inter-state variation in road network in the country with the help of secondary data. India has one of the largest road networks in the world, of 33.14 lakh km, consisting of (1) national highways (NHs), (2) State highways (SHs), (3) major district roads (MDRs), and (4) rural roads (RRs) that include other district roads and village roads. The growth rate of road was 12.50 per cent in 2014 due to significant increase in urban roads. The road density per 100 Sq KM of land area is 142.68 in India. The road density has increased from 3.28 km in 2001 to 3.96 km in 2014, registering a CAGR of 3.9%. Inter-state analysis of road transport reveals that Andhra Pradesh has highest road length followed by Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka.
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