Dhaka, Dec. 30 -- An enormous amount of money had been invested in developing Bangladesh's communications system over the past 15 years but modal transport share remained heavily skewed toward overburdened roads for no significant shift to rail, water, or air transport.

A baseline study carried out under the National Integrated Multimodal Transport Master Plan has found passenger-centric development of rail, water, and air transport could neither reduce reliance on roads nor shift cargo transportation away from jammed roadways.

Around three million trips are generated by cars and 0.1 million by buses per day while rails serve 80-90 million passengers in a year's time, the study shows. The findings state that the railway transports two t...