Iran and Afghanistan — a network to the MMC standard.
7 corridors linking 27 cities, about 5,200 km measured city to city in straight lines (about 6,300 km built, at a route factor of 1.2), with 8 cross-border links and crossings. The Eurasian Spine from Peshawar through Kabul, Herat, Mashhad and Tehran to Türkiye, a central mountain line from Kabul through Bamyan to Herat, and lines to the Gulf, Iraq, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
The Network Concept
The corridors.
Each corridor is listed below in order of its cities.
MMC Iran and Afghanistan network concept, schematic. Dark lines are corridors; grey lines are neighbouring corridors; gold lines are cross-border links; blue dashed lines are sea crossings; gold dashed lines are mountain tunnels; the wide gold band marks the spines. Routes are indicative.
Routes are indicative. Corridors are drawn city to city, through the cities on the existing railway wherever a line exists: MMC corridors follow those lines, upgrading the line or running above it on viaduct. Where no line exists, the corridor is new build. Final alignments are set at detailed design by terrain survey, geotechnical analysis, environmental and cultural heritage assessment, and agreement between the nations they connect.
AF-1 Ring Road: Torkham – Jalalabad – Kabul – Kandahar – Herat
IR-2 Persian Gulf: Tehran – Qom – Kashan – Isfahan – Shiraz
IR-3 Khuzestan: Qom – Arak – Ahvaz – Khorramshahr
AF-2 Trans-Afghan: Mazar-i-Sharif – Kabul
IR-4 Gilan: Rasht – Qazvin
IR-5 Bandar Abbas: Kashan – Yazd – Bafq – Sirjan – Bandar Abbas
Engagement
To initiate the programme in Iran and Afghanistan.
The MMC platform is available to any nation building to the standard. If your government, agency, or capital partner could initiate a project in Iran and Afghanistan: Make contact.
