Components of transportation system

The components of transportation system include transportation lines, transportation tools, transportation participants and transportation nodes.

Traffic lines are the infrastructure of transportation and a part of the transportation system. Means of transport are the main means of transport, including railways, highways, ships, planes and so on. Transport participants are owners, carriers, freight forwarders and transport brokers; Transport nodes are nodes that connect transport lines in the transport system network. The transportation system is a whole composed of many elements with specific functions and organic relations with each other.

The concept of transportation system: The system is a whole composed of many elements with specific functions and organic connections with each other. As far as the transportation system is concerned, its specific function is to realize the spatial displacement of people or things, and its elements are the infrastructure, vehicles, personnel, computing technology and so on needed to realize the whole transportation function.

Composition of transportation system: The transportation system consists of two parts: hardware system and software system, in which hardware can be divided into transportation infrastructure and transportation equipment according to mobility, and software system mainly includes transportation administrative organization and transportation production and operation organization. Concepts of transport infrastructure and transport equipment.

Meaning of transport station: a transport station is a node located on the transport route, a distribution center for passengers and goods, a meeting point for various means of transport, a place for handling passenger and goods transport business and means of transport operations, a technical basis for transport enterprises to maintain and repair means of transport, and an important part of the transport network.