Transportation

RailMathura is situated on the major Delhi-Mumbai train route. Both Central railway and Western Railway routes pass through Mathura.

Important train that origin/terminate from Mathura: 12177/Howrah - Mathura Chambal Express.[27]

RoadMathura is connected by road to the rest of Uttar Pradesh and India.

TramA tram network has been proposed in the city, which would make Mathura only the second city in India (after Kolkata) to get tram transport. In 2017, the local MLA Shrikant Sharma announced that the trams will be operation in Mathura and Vrindavan by 2018.[28]

AirAs of now, the city has no airport but the airport was proposed to Mathura in 2012. The civil aviation minister Ajit Singh suggested Mathura's name for the site of a new greenfield international airport to chief minister of Uttar Pradesh Akhilesh Yadav. Mathura's name came into play when group of ministers terminated the planning of building Taj International Airport at Greater Noida. Land has been marked, and construction is in progress near the Yamuna Expressway, with plans to open in the next five years with regular flights to Delhi, Mumbai, Ujjain and Varanasi and some international routes in future.[29][30][31]

IndustriesMathura Refinery located in the city is one of the biggest oil refineries of Asia with 8.0 MMTPA refining capacity.[35] This oil refinery of the Indian Oil Corporation is a highly technologically advanced oil refinery and provides local employment opportunities