some of the actions required include filling infrastructure gaps harmonizing technical standards synchronizing operational procedures developing and deploying information and communications systems and aligning crossborder legislation railway freight in the region has expanded from trillion tonkilometres to trillion tonkilometres during the period with the largest increase being in the east and northeast asia subregion where it has more than doubled from to trillion tonkilometres the world economic forum has found that while the road and rail network of india is among the largest in the world its ranks sixtyfirst in terms of road quality and twentyninth in terms of the quality of its rail network figure