Some of the actions required include: filling infrastructure gaps, harmonizing technical standards, synchronizing operational procedures, developing and deploying information and communications systems, and aligning cross-border legislation. Railway freight in the region has expanded from 4.3 trillion ton-kilometres to 5.8 trillion ton-kilometres during the period 1990-2012, with the largest increase being in the East and North-East Asia subregion, where it has more than doubled from 1.1 to 2.5 trillion ton-kilometres. The World Economic Forum has found that while the road and rail network of India is among the largest in the world, its ranks sixty-first in terms of road quality and twenty-ninth in terms of the quality of its rail network (figure 3.11.