The dedicated freight corridors of the Indian Railways have had a social-equalising effect with states that have a lower per-capita GDP experiencing significant benefits, a study by the University of New South Wales, Australia, has revealed. This suggests that the corridors are helping bridge the economic gap, offering a path towards more equitable economic growth across the country, it stated. Though the study, published in Elsevier Journal, focused on the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor( WD