Puducherry is connected by a railway branch line from the five-way junction at Viluppuram and Chennai. The railway line is a broad gauge line. There are express trains from Chennai, Bangalore, Viluppuram, Mumbai and other cities. It takes approximately four hours to reach Puducherry from Chennai by train.
Road
Puducherry is endowed with excellent infrastructural facilities on par with the best available in the country. A network of all weather metalled roads connecting every village exists in the territory. Puducherry has a road length of 2552 km (road length per 4.87 km²), the highest in the country.
Air
Pondicherry Airport is situated at Lawspet. The Puducherry Government upgraded the airport in 2012 with a new terminal building and apron to accommodate larger aircraft. The new terminal building was inaugurated in January 2013 and scheduled flights to Bangalore were launched. Karaikal Airport, a greenfield airport to be ready by 2014, will be the first airport in the country to be built entirely with private capital
