The Experiences And Implications Of The Development Of Comprehensive Transportation System In Modern USA

Traffic transportation is an ancient productive and practice activity, while transport of large scale, originally and mainly in the form of watering transport, was started in modern times. Highway transport formed with the appearance of gas engine, followed by airline and pipeline transport. Hongnian Yang, a researcher of the comprehensive transporting research center of National Planning Committee, said"Transportation is an activity that people use transporting tools (such as railway, highway, automobiles, ships and airplanes etc.) to affect labor objectivities (goods & passengers)and change their geographic locations, in other words , the transfer of the locations of passengers."In fact, modern transportation both meets the needs of passengers and that of the transfer of geographic locations, which concerns about the improvement of labor productive efficiency at the social level and capital cycling.Modern transporting system is a three-dimensional comprehensive system which is composed of five transporting forms, they are, railway, high way, water carriage, airlines and pipelines, which interacted with each other and jointly compromised National Transporting System.Transporting activity is a productive activity: transporting industry is a material production sector in terms of the nature of it. Transportation is an activity that people use transporting tools (such as railway, highway, automobiles, ships and airplanes etc.) to affect labor objectivities (goods & passengers)and change their geographic locations, in other words, the transfer of the locations of passengers. The functions of the modern transporting...