Question

Six points of importance of road transportation in india

Answer 1

India has one of the largest road network in the world, aggregating to about 2.3 million km at present.

Importance of road transportation in India are: -

1) Construction cost of raods is much lower than that of railway lines.
2) Road can traverse comparatively more dissected and undulating topography
3) Roads can negotiate higher gradients of slope and as such can traverse mountain.
4) Roads transport is economical in transportation of few person and relatively smaller amount of goods over short distance.
5) It provides door to door services
6) It used as a feeder to other modes of transportation such as they provide a link between raiways station, etc

Answer 2

Importance of Roads:

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.