Planning of National Transport Infrastructure
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Figure 10: The main republican roads in Kazakhstan
Source: ADB (2016)
Railways
The Kazakhstan rail network is shown in the following figure. The operational length of railways
of Kazakhstan is 14,900 km, including 4,900 km double track lines and 4,216 kilometres
electrified lines. About 70% of the railways do not have electrified lines. Currently there are five
railway corridors in Kazakhstan that are part of international railway corridors.
Nurly Zhol suggests Astana to act as a centre that links all macro regions. Through the main road
and rail links, as well as through airlines, Astana should link all the macro regions into a single
transport hub. The development of the railway sector is focused on developing a modern
network of transport and logistic centres, both inside the country and abroad, as well as
continue to work on the elimination of bottlenecks and increase the power of the railway
infrastructure.