Highway Transportation Statistics Research

The fast development of China's expressway has played an important role in promoting social economy, leading industry distribution and population distribution and consummating urban system. With the publication of the plan of national expressway network, there will be a bigger plan of China's expressway development. Thus it is anticipated that expressway will play a more important role in China. However while expressway is developing at a rapid speed, transportation output statistics of China's expressway has been falling behind the practice. The lack of statistical data of the expressway transportation output has made a lot of difficulties in planning, constructing, operating and managing the China's expressway, therefore has an influence on the whole benefit of China's expressway.Expressway transportation statistics is based on social economic statistics, sample survey and transportation, and combined with the managing practice of expressway. It is an application of transportation output statistics of China's expressway. It focuses on designing a statistical system of transportation output, which is suitable for China's practice in the management of expressway. This system will get the basic data of expressway transport production through the general statistics and the internal characteristic analysis of expressway transportation output, thus can provide the data support for the healthy development of expressway and comprehensive transport system in China.During the process of researching on transportation statistics, this article firstly coordinates and reviews some relative theories and practice to provide a basis for the design of a new statistical system. Then this article makes some definition and discussion of the basic problems in expressway transportation statistics, and puts forward an index system of expressway transportation statistics, providing a good researching platform for the expressway transportation statistical system. In the system design, this article takes respective discussion of freight transportationin statistics and passenger transportation statistics, because of the different production characters of these two. Since this article has taken a full consideration of the influence factors, this method is more operational. At last, this article picks up some typical practical cases in expressway transportation statistics, to guarantee the scientificity and manipulatility of this transportation statistical system.