Strategy for Introduction of Linear Induction Motor (LIM) Based  Urban Transport System in India – An Economic Analysis
International IEEE Workshop on Linear Induction Motor (LIM) Systems, Varanasi, India (Nov’1999)

?	Authors: Executives
?	Mr. V K Dutt (Federal Department of Railways, India)

?	Authors: Research Assistants
?	Rajiv Garg (Electrical Engineering)

?	Funding provided by: Federal Department of Indian Railways

Abstract
With the growth of cities, disjunctions between rail based intra-urban and suburban systems are rapidly disappearing. In 1985 Government of India set up a study group to recommend alternative systems of urban transport. This study group presented a report in 1987 considering various road-based and rail-based systems for Indian cities. Later, in the center for development of LIM Propelled Rail Metro System, Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University (IT-BHU), a working system for urban transport based on Linear Induction Motor (LIM) was commissioned on meter gauge track. On the basis of this experiment, it is considered that indigenous design and development of a rail based wheel on rail linear motor propelled system is feasible. In this paper this type of system has been considered and compared with conventional traction motor-bases systems for urban transport.