Sri Lanka’s long-neglected railway system can be a more useful complement to roads and could take up much of the bulk freight transport, reducing traffic jams significantly. In a recent BIG Issue interview the Colombo Mayor stated that every effort will be taken to reduce the traffic problem in curtailing the inflow and outflow of [...]
The railway network of Sri Lanka consists of 1,449 km. Railways contribute around 5% of passenger transport and 2% of goods transport. Though the accessibility to railway is not spread throughout the country it carries about 64 million passengers and almost 1.6 million metric tones of freight per annum, stated the Ministry of Finance and [...]
The demand for transport services will continue to increase with them national economic growth and regional development processes.
The contribution of the Transport sector to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the country was 8.2% in 2006.
Buses and private vehicles are the main means of land transport, accounting for 94% of the total passenger transportation. Railways [...]
