Abstract
The organization of urban freight distribution in developing countries is based on use of road vehicles which often results in high levels of traffic congestion, lack of parking space, lace of appropriate loading and unloading area which affects its efficiency. With the growing economy and increasing population Indian cities are focusing on their infrastructural development to mainly handle the passenger movement whereas freight sector is in complete negligence and further which contributes to the negative externalities like emission, safety, congestion and energy costs. Urban freight distribution through environmentally friendly modes is one of the advocated sustainable strategies worldwide which have immense potential to lower down the congestion and pollution levels owing to existing practices of freight distribution. This paper is an attempt to explore the potential of ring rail and metro rail system, presently used for passenger services, to be also considered for the distribution of freight, particularly postal and couriers in city of Delhi.
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