Importance of Transportation

Описание: The importance of transport has been enumerated below:
• Basic service for increasing national income
As national income rises, infrastructure adopts to support changing patterns of demand, with the shares of
power, transport and communication.
Transport is one of the most important services within any country and a vital sector of growth.
• Create new economic activity
Since, economic development in a country requires adequate and effective transport services; the degree to
which transport creates new activity is a necessary condition within the economy.
Transport is one of the essential elements of an integrated plan for area development.
• Indicator of development
Existence of high quality transport network, availability of number of mechanised motor transport, adequate
number of railway, air and shipping services as per the demand of the users are indicators of the development
in any country.
Effective transportation systems have been playing a vital role in the economic prosperity of a country.
• Enlarge the trading activities
The industrially developed countries lay more emphasis on the development of trade.
The search for an integrated system combines the merits of the individual transportation modes and
eliminates the uneconomic and unproductive activities.
• Promotes industrialisation
It increases wealth, promotes industrialisation and transforms the organisation of industry and raises the
standard of living of the people.