India, Oct. 7 -- The Union Cabinet has approved the establishment of the Integrated Transport & Logistics Authority (ITLA) as a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV to strengthen research, planning, project appraisal, monitoring and impact assessment across India's transport and logistics sectors.
ITLA will serve as the national apex institution for integrated transport and logistics planning, bringing greater coordination among various transport ministries and agencies and promoting multimodal infrastructure development.
The authority will prepare a National Transport Master Plan with a planning horizon of 10 years or more, covering roads, railways, ports and shipping, civil aviation, inland waterways, coastal shipping, urban mobility and logist...