Comparative study on Mumbai’s Suburban Railway Network with Tokyo, London and New York Suburban Railway Network

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Prashant Agrawal, Dr. Kedar Bhagwat

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Mumbai’s Suburban Railway Network or Mumbai Local is a major part of public transportation of Maharashtra cities. Every year more than 2.64 Billion passengers traveling on this network, making it one of busiest network in world. Suburban railway of Mumbai is made up of three lines to connect Mumbai city to its nearby areas of Mumbai Metropolitan Region. This network includes Central, Western and Harbour line. In this paper we try to compare this Mumbai suburban network with commuter network of other foreign developed cities, including New York, Tokyo and London. The different parameter like crowd management, managing delays, locomotive used and its specification, facilities provided on platform for the passengers etc. are used to compare railway networks. This papers also include study on privatization of railway of Tokyo and London and also benefits of adopting privatization on Mumbai Suburban Railways. The study will be based on data provided on official government websites.

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