It is the fourth of the four rapid rail corridors planned under the first phase of the RapidX project managed by the National Capital Region Transport Corporation (NCRTC).

The first will be from Ghaziabad to Kasna or Ecotech VI of Greater Noida, covering 32.9 km (20.4 mi) by running in tandem with Noida Metro's 10 km (6.2 mi) extension between Char Murti Chowk and Knowledge Park-IV, while concurrently integrating with Delhi Metro's Red Line at Ghaziabad.

[8][9][1] In response to the growing challenges of population growth, traffic congestion, pollution, and road safety in the National Capital Region, the Planning Commission formed a task force in 2005, chaired by the Secretary of the Ministry of Urban Development.

This led to the establishment of the National Capital Region Transport Corporation in July 2013, a joint venture between the Governments of India and the states of Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, and Delhi.

The NCRTC was tasked with building, owning, and operating the RRTS to reduce reliance on road transport and improve regional connectivity.

This corridor aims to establish direct and seamless connectivity to the under-construction YEIDA City and the Noida International Airport in Jewar.

[15] Nonetheless, due to lack of space and limited feasibility, the plan was changed to make the corridor start from Ghaziabad station on the Delhi–Meerut Regional Rapid Transit System, which has been built with four platforms to serve two corridors, and pass through Noida, Greater Noida and take course on the Yamuna Expressway before terminating at Jewar Airport.

[16] In December 2023, the Government of Uttar Pradesh approved the plan for ₹1,600 crore (US$180 million), and the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA) directed the NCRTC to prepare the Detailed Project Report (DPR) and the feasibility study of the project in January 2024, and began the geotechnical survey for preparing the DPR in the same month in Greater Noida.

[3][9] In January 2024, the NCRTC was directed by the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority to carry out the preparatory works for construction and preparing the Detailed Project Report (DPR) for the corridor.

Therefore, the NCRTC undertook the geotechnical survey of the corridor's alignment by awarding the work to Cengrs Geotechnica, a Noida-based firm, and then started to prepare the DPR in the same month.

The first section will integrate as one corridor with the proposed 10 km (6.2 mi) Noida Metro's extension between Char Murti Chowk and Knowledge Park-IV.

Its alignment will pass along the Yamuna Expressway through the towns and villages of Dankaur, Dhanauri, Kanarsi, Bhatta, Parsaul, Rabupura, Dayanatpur and Kishorpur before reaching Noida International Airport, which will be built underground.

[21][2][8] All stations and trains of the RRTS will have similar facilities to that of an airport, as in case with the existing Delhi–Meerut Regional Rapid Transit System.

They will have several facilities to fulfil the requirements of travellers and on-board passengers to ensure smooth and hassle-free experience, like booking counters, ticket and food vending machines, on-board catering and washrooms, check-in kiosks, baggage checking counters, CCTVs, platform screen doors, washrooms, retiring rooms, restaurants, retail stores, free Wi-Fi connectivity, child care facilities, emergency and medical facilities, facilities for physically challenged passengers like wheelchairs, escalators, elevators and connecting facilities to other existing transport modes like Delhi Metro stations in the Ghaziabad section, inter-state bus terminals of the Uttar Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation at Noida and Greater Noida, Noida Metro stations, Indian Railways stations, the proposed light rail stations in the YEIDA City section, cabs, auto-rickshaw stands, parking spaces, etc.

They have several facilities and amenities to cater the needs of the passengers, such as on-board catering, ticket scanners, food vending machines, information display systems, hand rests on the sides of the seats, adequate walking space, window blinders, charging points, fire alarms, washrooms, CCTVs, separate seats for and wheelchairs for physically challenged passengers.

The provisions have been made in view of catering the traffic of the upcoming YEIDA City and to and from the under-construction Noida International Airport in Jewar.