What are the characteristics of highway transportation?

Flexibility is the greatest advantage of highway transportation. Road transportation is easy to realize "door-to-door" transportation in space, can provide transportation services at any time according to customers' needs, and can make flexible operation schedules, which has great flexibility in transportation services. At the same time, it can provide personalized service according to the needs of residents, and meet the different nature of freight transportation to the maximum extent.

(2) Drivers are easy to train.

Compared with other means of transportation, driving skills are simple and easy to master. Generally, the training of car drivers only takes a few months, while drivers of other means of transportation need a long time.

High transportation cost

The total cost of highway transportation includes fixed cost and variable cost. For transportation enterprises, the proportion of fixed costs is relatively high. Due to the small single transportation volume of highway transportation, the transportation cost per ton kilometer is higher than that of railway transportation and waterway transportation. The research shows that the cost of highway transportation is11~17.5 times that of railway transportation, 27.7~43.6 times that of waterway transportation and13.7 ~ 210.5 times that of pipeline transportation.

Small transport capacity

Each ordinary truck can only transport about 50 tons of goods at a time, which is about1100 of the freight train; Generally speaking, long-distance transportation can only transport about 50 people, which is only equivalent to 1/36~ 1/30 of ordinary railway trains. In addition, because the car is small in size and small in load, it is difficult to transport large goods. So generally speaking, bulky goods and long-distance transportation are not suitable for road transportation.