National Highway 4 (NH-4) passes through the NMMC area. Navi Mumbai is connected by road and rail to Thane, Kalyan, Mumbai, JNPT, Uran and Panvel. The work of Thane-Belapur railway and the construction of railway stations are complete, and rail link started functioning from June 2005. Navi Mumbai is close to Sahar International and Chhatrapati Shivaji domestic airport. A new international & domestic airport is planned in Navi Mumbai.

There is a network of roads about 438.95 km in length in NMMC area. There are footpaths, central dividers and pathways along major roads. Total length of footpaths and walkways is over 47.24 km in 2006-07. The construction of new footpaths is under progress at Nerul GES, Darave, Kopri and Airoli GES. NMMC has taken over the roads in Thane Belapur industrial area of MIDC area on 25 th November 2004 The length of roads in industrial of MIDC is 136 Km. NMMC shall improve and maintain the roads, footpaths, drains and streetlights in this area.

NMMC has partly improved the roads in this area and balance work is under progress.

Navi Mumbai has six rail corridors, 157 km railway system and an independent mainline rail terminal connecting the city directly to other parts of the country. Vashi, Sanpada, Juinagar, Nerul, Belapur, Turbhe, Koparkhairane, Ghansoli and Airoli in Navi Mumbai are on Harbour line of the central railway.

Plan to develop a domestic airport in Navi Mumbai is in progress.

The proposed trans-harbour link between Mumbai (Wadala) and Navi Mumbai (Ulwe) is further expected to enhance the status of this city by forming yet another link with Mumbai. MoEF has given clearance to the project. This link shall connect proposed international airport to Mumbal directly.

Public transport system in Navi Mumbai comprises train, bus, autorikshaws and taxi. NMMC has its own bus service. In addition the buses of BEST and Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation, KDMC and interstate private buses ply through Navi Mumbai. NMMC Transport undertaking has 226 buses catering to 51,86,285 per month. There are over 7.89 lakh vehicles registered in Thane district of which NMMC area forms part for vehicle registration.

There are over 75,356 vehicles registered in NMMC area.

This has resulted in traffic problems in certain areas. NMMC has undertaken programme for improvement of internal roads to reduce the problem by providing additional lane for left turn, creating turning lane, additional parking space and signalised traffic to decongest the traffic movement and speed breakers as per direction of court and conforming to BSI standards. However, the major concern in traffic is increasing number of road accidents and deaths due to accidents.