ROAD TRANSPORT
Road transport plays a crucial role in the development of economies by enabling the efficient transportation of goods and people. While it offers advantages like cost-effectiveness and door-to-door delivery, road transport also has limitations such as safety concerns and environmental impact. Various Acts and Rules govern road transport to ensure safety and regulation in the sector.
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ROAD TRANSPORT Dr.Sikandar prasad yadav Deptt.of Economics M.L.ARYA COLLEGE KASBA PURNEA.
ROAD TRANSPORT Transport is necessary for development of Economy. Road transport IS a part of Transportation. Road transport means transportation of goods and personnel from one place to the other place on road.Road is a route between two destinations which has been either paved or worked on to enable transportation by way of motorised and non-motorised carriage.There are many advantage of road transport in comparison to other means of transport. The investment required in road transport is very less compared to other modes of transport such as railway and air transport. The cost of construction, operating cost and maintaining road is cheaper than that of railway.
Advantages of road transport Road transport can be classified as transporting either goods and material or transporting people. The major advantage of road is that it can enable door to door delivery of goods and material and can provide a very cost effective means of cartage,loading and unloading. Sometime road transport is the only way for carrying goods and people to and from rural areas which are not catered to by rail,water or air transport. Delivery of goods between cities, towns and all village is made possible only through road transport.
Limitations or disadvantage of road transport However in spite of various merits, road transport has some major limitations. For instance, there are more chances of accidents and breakdown in case of road transport. So moter transport is not safe as other means transport. Road transport is also quite less organised in comparison with other modes, it is irregular and undepandable.Rate of road transportation are also unstable and unequal, while the speed in road transport is slow and limited which is amajor drawback. Transporting bulky goods overlong distance is also unsuitable and costly in modern days road transport has a serious negative impack on environment. Building roads rrquires melting of tar or formulation of concrete, which may harm the associated environment since roads have been amajor enable of metorisd transport, these vehicles also emit a lot of population in the from of Nitrogen dioxide, volitile organic compounds, carbon monoxide and various harmful air pollutants, including benzene,
Which have an adverse respiratory health effects and serious threat to global warming. Act/Rules being administered in RT wing The following Act/Rules,which embody the policy relating to moter Vehicles and state Road transport Corporation (SRTCs)are being administered by road transport wing of the ministry. 1 Moter vehicles Act 1988
2 Control Motar Vehicles Rules 1989 3 Road transport Corporation Act 1950 4 Carriage by Road Act 2007.effective from 1.3.11
