The city is well connected via rail, road and air transport services.

Airport

Gwalior Airport connects Gwalior directly to Delhi and Bhopal in India with Deccan airlines operating on these routes. This airport has good infrastructure and facilities.

Railways

Gwalior is one of the major commercial railway station of North-Central railway. Gwalior is, perhaps, one of the only few places where there are both narrow gauge and broad gauge railways tracks are still operational. A unique aspect about gwalior narrow gauge is that, the width of the track is smallest among all the narrow gauges tracks in India. Gwalior is well connected via train services to all parts of the country including 4 metros. There are direct trains to Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata (Howrah), Chennai, Trivandrum, Ahmedabad, Pune, Jammu, Indore, Jaipur, Lucknow, Bhopal, Nagpur, Chandigarh and other major towns. Gwalior is the main station serving most of the important and long distance trains. There are two other stations within city limits, named Birla nagar and Sithouli. These stations interconnect to other stations and also serve the short distance trains connecting Gwalior to nearby towns and villages.

Gwalior lies on the longest functional meter gauge line in India between Delhi and Mumbai.Gwalior railway station has good and clean infrastructure and facilities.

Gwalior is also direct connections to the IT Hub such as Bangalore, Pune and Hyderabad.

Roads

Gwalior is fairly well connected to other parts of Madhya Pradesh and India with national and state highways. The Agra-Bombay national highway (NH3) passes through Gwalior. The Agra-Bombay Road runs though the city connecting it to Shivpuri on one end and Agra on the other. The city is connected to the Jhansi by the National Highway 75, towards the south of the city. In the Northern, the city is connected to the holy city of Mathura via National Highway 3. There are bus services to and from all major and minor cities near Gwalior. The prominent one being Bhopal, Agra, Delhi, Jabalpur, Jhansi, Bhind, Morena, Datia, Jaipur and Indore.

Local transport

The tempos and auto-rickshaws rather infamous for pollution, but the local government has plans to replace the tempos with vans that shall run on Liquified Petroleum Gas

The other means of local public commuting are the mini-buses (Nagar sevas in local language) and Tempos, which are often overcrowded and highly uncomfortable. You can also hire an auto-rickshaw to get around places in the city which are not covered by bus routes.