Question

EXPLAIN. THE. IMPORTANCE. OF. ROAD. TRANS. PORT

Answer 1

1. Roads play a very important role in the transportation of goods and passengers for short and medium distances

2. It is comparatively easy and cheap to construct and maintain roads.

3. Road transport system establishes easy contact between farms, fields, factories and markets and provides door to door service.

4. Roads can negotiate high gradients and sharp turns which railways cannot do. As such, roads can be constructed in hilly areas also.

5. Roads act as great feaders to railways. Without good and sufficient roads, railways cannot collect sufficient produce to make their operation possible.

6. Road transport is more flexible than the railway transport. Buses and trucks may be stopped anywhere and at any time on the road for loading and unloading passengers and goods whereas trains stop only at particular stations.

7. Perishable commodities like vegetables, fruits and milk are transported more easily and quickly by roads than by railways.

Due to above-mentioned advantages, the road transport has become very popular and its share is constantly increasing.

Answer 2

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• Roads are the harbingers of economic devlopment.
• From Roads every village and hamlet can be reached.
• Road can be constructed even in the area of different terrain and where railway lines do not exist.
• The movement of goods is safe thorough road transport as the change of pilferage are lesser than in the railways.
• Road transport supplements the other modes of transportation.
• It provides line between railway station and post are hinterland.
• Some of the Roads of India are:-

1. Delhi-Gurgaon
2. Mumbai-pune
3. Ahmedabad-Vadodara

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