The 701 km-longMumbai-Nagpur prosperity corridor, a greenfield project which is expected to almost halve the travel time between the two cities from existing 15-16 hours to 8hours will criss-cross 10 districts and 392 villages with a Network of 50 flyovers, five major tunnels, 300 vehicular underpasses and 400 pedestrian underpasses.
The cost of safeguarding wildlife is projected to be over Rs 326 crore. There are 96 wildlife structures, which include 7 overpass bridges, 89 underpasses, box culverts, and a few major and minor bridges to facilitate passage of wildlife.
Since the six-lane highway will have only 24 interchanges, it can be either entered or exited only at these points and at no other places, thus making it an accesscontrolled expressway.
The highway will have an intelligent traffic management system which will help the traffic control room issue commands to motorists, monitor vehicle speed and lane cutting, and provide roadside emergency help.