Book Description

The movement of men, materials, and goods has a paramount significance to achieve lasting progress of any region, state, or country. It is no doubt that transportation should be considered as one of the premier needs of any society for the timely fulfilment of economic, social, and cultural needs as economic compulsions at present-day have become turned with the “mobility factor”, It need not be overemphasized here that the needful movement of men, material, and goods to the potential employment centers, production centers, marketing places, and people centers, from faraway places, give enormous strength to the economy of any country. The absence of mobility questions the very survival of men and the consequent insurmountable problems jeopardize every effort to economic development. The development of interior and unexploited places of rich resources of men and material, the expansion of various kinds of services to the needy, the simultaneous development of other sectors in the country requires and should be rightly supported by the presence of the sound transport network. Transport is the lifeblood of civilization and constitutes an important item of infrastructure for economic growth. The significance of the transport sector lies not only in the specific services it renders but even more, in unifying and integrating.