Characteristics of Road Transport

        It is an accepted fact that of all the modes the transportation,road transport is the nearest to the people.The passenger and the goods have to be first transported by road before reaching a railway station or a port or an airport.The road network alone could serve the remotest villages of the vast country like our.

       The  Characteristics of Road Transport are briefly listed here.
*Roads are used various types of road vehicles,like passenger cars,buses,trucks two and three wheeled automobiles ,pedal cycles and animal drawn vehicles.But railway tracks are used only by rail locomotives and wagons,water ways are used by only ships and boats

*Road transport requires a relatively small investment for the government.Motor vehicles are much cheaper than carriers like rail locomotives and wagons,water and air carriers. and air carriers.Construction and maintenance of roads is also cheaper than that of railway track,docks,harbours and airports.

*Road transport completely offer an freedom to road users to transfer the vehicles from one lane to another  and to from one road to another according to the need and convenience.This flexibility of changes in location,direction,speed and timings of travel is not available to other modes of transport.

*In particular for short distance travel,road transport saves time.Trains stop at junctions and main stations for comparatively longer time.

*Speed of movement is directly related with severity of accident.The road Safety decreases with increase dispersion in speed.Road Transport is subjected to high degree of accidents due to flexibility of movements offered to the user.Derailment of railway locomotives and air planes and air crashes are not uncommon.They are in fact more disastrous.

*Road transport is the only means of transport offer itself to the whole community.

*The Major defect of road is Traffic.
   Traffic:It means the amount of vehicles using in given volume of road than average no.of vehicles.
   It cause an irritation to passenger who were travelling.
   Without proper maintenance fatal accidents may occur.

                                                                                                                                                                      

Traffic Control

                   To Control following measure to eradicate traffic and its effects.
  *Following of traffic rules or obeying of traffic conditions.
   All road user must obey traffic rules that
    "Green signal for "Proceeding"
    "Red Signal for Stopping"
    "Yellow Signal to Ready to Stop".

* Passengers are requested to wear helmet for two wheelers seat belt for four wheeler to eradicate accidents.

*Avoiding of Alcoholic driving.

*Follow signals given by other vehicles.

*Passenger advised to use public mode of Transportation.

* Avoid Cell phone Driving.

*Follow the instruction given by road authority about the particular road.

*Pedastrains are advised to use footpath and zebra crossings.