Road Transportation:
Transportation of
peoples and goods from one place to the another on roads is known as Road
Transportation.
Scope of Road Transportation in
Pakistan:
Road transportation is
the backbone of Pakistan's transportation system. National Highway and Motorway network
is about 9,574 km long which is about 3.65% percent of the total road
network. 80 % percent of Pakistan's total traffic
is carried out by it. At this time , it's accounting for 96%percentofgoods and 91% percent of travelers.
1.LowCapitalInvestment:
AscomparetoothertypesoftransportsroadtransportationrequireslowCapital.So,it'scheaptoconstructaroadascomparetoconstructarailwaytrack.
2.Door to Door service:
Road transportation provides door to door service so
it's more beneficial than railway which is mostly found in big cities. While
roads are present everywhere even in villages.
3.Flexible Services:
Road transportation provides flexible services with
adjustment of time and routes according to individuals requirements. While
other types of transportation follow a rigid, inflexible schedule of time and
route.
4.Employment:
Road transportation
provides directly and indirectly employment to many people.
5.Useful for Shorter Distance:
Road transportation is most cost effective, quicker
to vehicle people and goods for short distances. For long distances railway is
good.
6.CompletingOther
Mode of Transports:
With the help of road transport people reach at
railway station, airport etc. Road transport provides feeder services to air, ship
and railway transport.
7.Personal Service:
People have their own vehicles so it can also provides personal services. Big business groups have their own vehicles to market their products and provide services to travelers. They are running their own transport setup without any delays, with their own route and time frame. While railway is managed by government.
8.Helpful in the Transportation of Rapidly Decomposing Goods:
Road transportation is helpful in the pickup and
distribution of rapidly decomposing goods such as vegetables and fruits, from
point of production to point of consumption.
9.Beneficial to Cottage Industries:
Road transportation is helpful to facilitate the mobility of men and goods of industries. Which are mostly away from railway.
10.Reliable Packing Cost:
Goods transported by
road transport does not require extra packing to go through handling. So
packing costs are much lower than other types of transportation.
Uses of Road Transportation in
Pakistan:
There are few uses of
road transportation in Pakistan.
1.
Road transportation is very much
useful for national marketing. Road transportations can be used to send new
products to costumers at any part of our country.
2.
Road transportation increases the
marketing, nowadays many marketers have vehicles for efficient marketing
3.
Road transportation increases the
operational value of any industry.
4.
Road transportation can be used
to motivate and enhance staff value. When an organization provides road
transportation to their staff and gives them a car or provides carriages it will
obviously motivates staff and enhances the morale.
5.
Due to flexibility advantage of
road transportation over other types of transportation it can be used to
increase customer satisfaction. Road transportation can be used to deliver
goods to final buyer with focus on pickup, delivery, monitoring by using micro
processes in transport management.
6.
The cost of production can be
reduced by efficient use road transportation. It will increase the
profitability of organizations on its products.
7.
Smooth and efficient road
transportation prevents the unnecessary delay in products and reduces waste of
time therefore increases the productivity.
8.
Road transportation plays an
important role both inbound and outbound logistics services.
9.
Delivery of different products to
final customers, road transportation is most suitable mode for delivery of
products.
10.
The successful management of any
origination is depended on effective use of road transportation.
