Study On The Integration Of Highway Cargo Transportation In Wuhan City Circle

Promotion of central China is the important task of implementing the overall development strategy to promote regional coordination in our country. Under this measure, Hubei province should speed up the economical development; take the lead to come into the important strategic stronghold for the middle rising. In this process, the development of the Wuhan city circle is particularly important.From the perspective of the city circle, promoting the formation and growth of City Circle largely depends on the improvement of highway transportation system. So the urgent affair for promoting the economy of City Circle is to establish the developmental strategy of the integration of highway transportation in City Circle. The construction of the system of the integration of highway cargo transportation in Wuhan City Circle will play the vital role on rationally distributing the resources of every city in Wuhan City Circle, enhancing regional competitiveness, developing regional economy.Transportation Department of Hubei Provincial held Wuhan city circle transportation development union conference in October 2005; the transportation department responsible persons who came from the nine cities came to common for the integration of transportation in Wuhan city circle. Basing on the theories of regional economic integration and regional traffic integration, this article sets forth the meaning and the embodiments of integration of highway cargo transportation, introduces the concept of common distribution and analysis the relationship between transportation and modern logistics. On this basis, viewing from the embodiments of the integration of highway cargo transportation, it summarizes and analysis the status quo and existing problems of policy & management, information and market in the highway cargo transportation in Wuhan City Circle. Then, forecasting the Wuhan city circle highway cargo transportation total quantity and large amount goods quantity, which provides the essential data and theory basis for the business models and construction of the transport network of the integration of highway cargo transportation in Wuhan city circle. This article brings forward that the construction of the integration of highway cargo transportation in Wuhan city circle includes five parts: the choice of business models of the integration of highway cargo transportation in Wuhan city circle, the construction of the transport network of the integration of highway cargo transportation in Wuhan city circle, the Policy & management integration of highway cargo transportation in Wuhan city circle, the information integration of highway cargo transportation in Wuhan city circle and the market integration of highway cargo transportation in Wuhan city circle. Among them, the choice of management models of the integration of highway cargo transportation in Wuhan city circle and the construction of the transport network of the integration of highway cargo transportation in Wuhan city circle are core. It analyses the features, feasibility and adaptability of various management models that include the rural cooperation management model, urban cargo taxi management model and common distribution management model; puts forward the suggestions for building of highway cargo transportation nodes that include freight transport stations, logistics centers etc, the highway cargo transportation road network and logistics unified distribution system in Wuhan city circle.At last, this article respectively puts forward the countermeasures and suggestions for promoting the development of the integration of highway cargo transportation in Wuhan city circle from three aspects that include Policy & management, information and market.