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Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Kolkata International Airport is a civil airport, located about 17 km from the centre of Kolkata. The civil airport was originally known as Dum Dum Airport before being renamed in the honour of Bengali Indian patriot Subhas Chandra Bose.

It is one of the four busiest in India, has 3 Terminals: a domes-tic terminal (opened in the early 1990s), an international terminal (the oldest terminal) and a cargo terminal. And it handles around 250 flights a day.

Regions as a proportion of global traffic

Maritime traffic is very important in Indien, mostly because of political reasons. The originally biggest sea harbours amd sea ports are nowday also the biggest rail points.And nevertheless the Indian Railway is considered to be one of the biggest and busies rail networks in world, with more than 16 Mio. passangers daily.

Rai Network in India

The Indian rail network, established in 1853 runs the length and breadth of the country. The network is divided by region, and there are 16 zonal divisions. Delhi is served by Northern Railways, Mumbai by both Central and Western Railways, Kolkata by Eastern Railways and Chennai by Southern Railways. Indian Railways employ over 1.6 milion people, making them the world’s largest single em-ployer.

SOURCE: http://www.calcuttaairport.com ; http://www.airport-technology.com/projects/kolkuttaairporthttp://www.aci.aero/cda/aci_common/display/main/aci_content07_c.jsp?zn=aci&cp=1-5-54_666_2__ ; http://www.indianchild.com/ports_in_india.htm

Harbours in India

Number of air passangers in 2007

Kolkata 6 Mio.

Basel 4 Mio.

London 67 Mio.

World 4 Billions

Asia Pacific 24%

Number of train passangers in 2007

India 16 Mio.

Switzerland 0.86 Mio.

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The first Indian under-ground Metro was built in Kolkata in 1984.

It has a very busy ti-mescedule, neverthe-less it’s always over-croweded and it runs everyday between 7 a.m and 10 p.m.

Since 1873 there are trams in Kolkata.

There are 208 Tram with 80 seats in each one. To compare it with Ba-sel, where there are 170 Trams and each one has 200 seats.

There are two passen-ger lines in Kolkata: MV AKbar and MV Nancow-ry run by the Shipping Corporation of India SCI.

They offer different stops in Kolkata and also have a direct con-nection from Kolkata to Chennai.

Completely yellow taxis could only be found in Kolkata and they are next to the rickshaw the very symbol of urban Kolkata.

Mostly used by tourist, although more expen-sive than rickshaw.

There are 28 car per 1000 inhabitants (High-est rate is in Delhi with 56 car per 1000 inhabit-ants).

As polution is be-coming an important issue, it is becoming important to run a car on CNG (Compressed Natural Gas).

Inofficially there are about 30’000 rickshaws in Kolkata. In the same time it’s also the only city where they are still in use. Used mostly by domes-tic people, for everyday business and shopping.

Very common mean of transport, almoust every famillly has one. And it still runs on fuel.

Used by tourist and lo-cals. as it is the easiest way to explore the city.

There are also bik-rick-shaws, whre you can see the whole familly on one of them.

Different means of transport

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Colonisation Constitution of India 1947 Pakistan Indepedance 1962 War with China 1949-50 War with Pakistan 1971 War with Pakistan 1999 War with Pakistan

1832 - First plans for railnetwork in India

1850 - the first train

1875 - 14’500 km train network

1970 - closed the Howrah terminal

1982 - closed the Seldah station

1995 - closed the High Court Terminus1850 - the first

railway line con-structed in Indi a, length 34 km

1854 - built Howrah line

1984 - first underground metro in India, Kolkata

1905 - the How-rah station was brought into service

1947- 42 rail systems, more than 40% of rail network went to newly created na-tion Pakistan

1880 - The Cal-cutta Tramway Co. Ltd was formed an registred in London

1951 - The Govern-ment of West Ben-gal entered into an agreement with the CTC and the Calcutta Tramways Act CTA, 1951 was enacted.

1957 - The first Indian car 1992 - The first

bus service

1982 - The Cal-cutta seized over 12’000 rickshaw and destroyed them

2005 - Communist government of West Bengal announced plans to completely ban rickshaws, resulting in protests and strikes of the pullers

1844 - The Governer General of India al-lowed private entre-preneurs to set up a rail system in India

1873 - on the 20th Novem-ber 2.4 mile of tramwa service between Sealdeh and Armenian Ghat Street have been brought into service.

1900 - 1905 - Electrifiation of the Tramways, finished with the Howrah station to Bandhaghat

Bus service has existed since 1992. They are not as common mean of transport as the metro, nor they are that popu-lar, mostly because they are so overcrowded which make it impos-sible to enter on in-between stops. Most signage are in Benja

Rented by companies, as a mean of transport for workers. They are usually rented over a long period and there-fore not in very good condition. Nevertheless they are faster, more reliabel and expensive than common buses.

Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst, was the Governer General of India in the time when it started to develope it’s own transport network.

SOURCE: http://www.wbgov.com/E-gov/English/Departments/DeptDetails.asp?DpId=250&LinkId=8&type=1; http://www.calcuttatramways.com/

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SOURCE: http://www.mapsofindia.com/; http://www.cmdaonline.com/kma.html; http://www.wbgov.com/e-gov/English/EnglishHomePage.asp

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