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Indiana Transportation

Indiana is one among the states of United States of America. It has a total land area of 36,420 square miles and is ranked as the 38th largest state of the United States. Indiana has 83 counties within it which accommodates a population of approximately 376,972 individuals. The entire population of Indiana is benefited by a very well developed means of transportation system.

The important means of transportations available in Indiana are:

Road Transportation in Indiana

The roadways are the most important means of transportation available in Indiana. The county roads here are identified on the basis of a newly introduced grid system. This system is quite easy for the passengers to identify the transportation available to their required route. In earlier days, an arbitrary system was used for the identification of county roads. This arbitrary system is based on specific numbering and naming system to each of the county road. This grid system for identifying county roads is successfully implemented in the northern and central regions of Indiana. The rural counties of Indiana, especially those in the southern side still depend on the old way of numbering and naming. The St. Joseph County has a different road grid system. It makes use of the names of the trees or the perennial system in an alphabetic order for the roads in the North-South region. It also makes use of names of the President and other popular people as the means for identification of East-West roads.

Major Highways of Indiana

Indiana has many interstate highways. This includes interstate-64, interstate-275, interstate-469, interstate-70, interstate-74, interstate-80, interstate-94, interstate-164, interstate-265, interstate-65, interstate-69, interstate-465 and the interstate-865. The motto of Indiana, “the cross roads of America” is mainly because of the presence of so many highways that intersect each other at particular areas along with the factor that Indiana once served as a major railroad hub.

Railroad Transportation in Indiana

The railroads are the most efficient and safer means of transportation available in Indiana. There are around 4,256 railroad route miles available here. More than 90 percentage of this is operated by class 1 railroads. The class 1 railroads of Indiana include Norfolk Southern railway, Canadian National Railway, Canadian Pacific Railway, Amtrak and CSX Transportation. The remaining percentages of rail roads are operated by regional and local railroads. Some of them are also operated by switching and terminal rail roads.

Marine Transportation in Indiana

Major portion of Indiana is surrounded by water bodies. Thus water or marine means is the major means of transportation especially used here for moving the cargo. It is estimated that around 65 millions of cargo is transported through the marine means. More than half of the state’s border has a direct contact with the major freight forwarding arteries such as St. Lawrence Seaway and Inland waterway system. The major ports of Indiana are the Mount Vernon, Jeffersonville and Burns Harbor.

Air Transportation in Indiana

The air transportation in Indiana is very well developed. The Indianapolis Airport is the largest public airport in Indiana. Some of the primary airports in Indiana that offers commercial service are Evansville regional airport, Fort Wayne International Airport, Indianapolis International Airport and South Bend Regional Airport. The major reliever airports of Indiana are the Griffith-Merrillville airport, Mount Comfort airport, Indianapolis Metropolitan Airport, Hendricks County Airport, Eagle Creek Airpark, Indianapolis Executive Airport and Clark Regional Airport. Some of the most important general aviation Airports are Marion Municipal Airport, White County Airport, Michigan City Municipal Airport, Frankfort Municipal Airport, New Castle-Henry County Municipal Airport, Wabash Municipal Airport, Perry County Municipal Airport etc. Other most important public use Airports are Alexandria Airport, Lake Monroe Sea Plane Base, Holiday Inn Lake View Heliport, Skylane Airport, Franklin Flying Field, Orleans Airport, Nappanee Municipal Airport etc. The most important military airport of Indiana is the Grissom Joint Air Reserve Base.

List of Airports in Indiana

Indiana Transportation Museum

Indiana Department of Transportation

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