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By Road: Kerala is well connected by rest of india and internal part of kerala from many national highways and state highways. Major National highways are NH 47, NH 17, NH 49, NH 208, NH 212, NH 213, NH 220.
By Train: The Indian Railways' Southern Railway line runs through the state, connecting most major towns and cities. The railway network in the state is controlled by three divisions of Southern Railway, namely Trivandrum Railway Division, Palakkad Railway Division and Madurai Railway Division. Eranakulam Junction is the busiest railway station in the state and second busiest in the Southern Railway Zone after Chennai Central. Kerala's major railway stations are Kannur, Kozhikode, Shornur Junction, Palakkad Junction, Thrissur, Ernakulam Junction, Ernakulam Town Alappuzha, Kottayam, Tiruvalla, Chengannur, Kayamkulam Junction, Kollam Junction and Thiruvananthapuram Central.
By Air: Kerala has three major international airports, at Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi and Kozhikode. �Trivandrum International Airport is the first International airport in an Indian non-metro city. The Cochin International Airport is the busiest and largest in the state, and was the first Indian airport to be incorporated as a public limited company;
By Water: Kerala, with numerous backwaters, is one of the States in India where waterways are successfully used for commercial Inland Water Transport. The transportation is mainly done with country craft and passenger vessels. There are 67 navigable rivers in Kerala. The total length of the Inland Waterways in the State is 1687 km. A 205 km canal, National Waterway 3, runs between Kottapuram and Kollam.
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