Fast Tracking Freight in India: A Roadmap for Clean and Cost-effective Goods Transport

The report identifies three primary opportunity areas to reduce the negative impacts of India's growing freight demand: increasing the share of rail transport, optimizing truck usage, and adopting zero-emissions vehicles and fuel economy technologies. Implementing these solutions could save 10 gigatons of cumulative CO2 emissions by 2050 and lower logistics costs from 14 percent to 10 percent of GDP.

• India's freight transport demand has grown at 5 percent since 2015 and is projected to grow rapidly over the next 30 years, contributing to high logistics costs, increased CO2 emissions, and poor air quality.
• The report proposes three main opportunity areas to mitigate negative impacts: improving the share of rail freight, optimizing truck use, and increasing the adoption of zero-emissions vehicles and fuel economy improvement technologies.
• By 2050, the proposed opportunities could result in 10 gigatons of cumulative CO2 emission savings, a reduction of nitrogen oxide emissions by 35 percent, and a reduction of particulate matter emissions by 28 percent. Additionally, it could help reduce logistics costs from 14 percent of GDP to 10 percent.

APA

RMI (2021). Fast Tracking Freight in India: A Roadmap for Clean and Cost-effective Goods Transport. https://rmi.org/resources/fast-tracking-freight-in-india-a-roadmap-for-clean-and-cost-effective-goods-transport/

Chicago

RMI. Fast Tracking Freight in India: A Roadmap for Clean and Cost-effective Goods Transport. 2021. https://rmi.org/resources/fast-tracking-freight-in-india-a-roadmap-for-clean-and-cost-effective-goods-transport/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{rmi2021fast, author = {{RMI}}, title = {{Fast Tracking Freight in India: A Roadmap for Clean and Cost-effective Goods Transport}}, institution = {RMI}, year = {2021}, month = jun, url = {https://rmi.org/resources/fast-tracking-freight-in-india-a-roadmap-for-clean-and-cost-effective-goods-transport/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }