Road
Panvel is an important junction point as many major highways meet and pass through the city. The Mumbai Pune Expressway, Sion Panvel Expressway, NH 4B and NH 17 start from here while NH 4 passes through Panvel. Roads of New Panvel are maintained by CIDCO while those in Old Panvel by PMC. New Panvel, being developed by CIDCO, has well-planned and wide 4/6 lane major roads and even the arterial roads are of two lanes. All roads have footpaths on both sides. Old Panvel has relatively less maintained roads which are very congested due to lack of planning on part of the PMC.
Proposed Navi Mumbai International Airport
The new Navi Mumbai International Airport, which is to come up around the Panvel-Kopra area, would be built through public-private partnership (PPP) — with private sector partner getting 74% equity while Airport Authority of India (AAI) and Maharashtra government through City and Industrial Development Corporation or CIDCO) holding 13% each. The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has already given techno-feasibility clearance to the Navi Mumbai airport and central cabinet has cleared it. The project is at Global tendering stage.
Panvel Railway Station
Panvel railway station is one of the most important junctions on the Konkan Railway. Harbour line from Mumbai CST, Central Line from Diva/Kalyan, Central Line from Karjat, Western Freight Corridor from JNPT and the Konkan Railway Line from Mangalore meet at Panvel. Panvel Railway station comes under Mumbai Division of Central Railway. Panvel is the terminating station of Mumbai Railway's Harbour Line. Also, Konkan Railway connecting Mumbai to South India passes through Panvel. Platforms 1,2,3 and 4 are for Suburban Trains while Platforms 5,6 and 7 are for
