A passenger welfare body's study has proposed a low-cost solution to ease congestion on the Konkan Railway corridor: simply run existing trains with the maximum number of coaches they are already permitted to haul. According to the study, augmenting just 10 trains could add about 45 coaches and 3691 seats daily — equivalent to introducing nearly two full-length trains in each direction — without adding a single new track or train path.

The study found that all 10 trains analysed are running below their permissible coach capacity, leaving substantial unused carrying potential on one of the country's most saturated rail corridors.