What is Highway transportation? Importance of highway tranportaion

Highway transportation is the means of detail distribution between homes, shops, factories, e.t.c. It is only the roads which can carry goods from and to aerodromes, harbours and railway stations. Considering the utility of roads anywhere in the different parts of a country, they can be rightly compared to arteries in a human body just as arteries maintain man's health by providing circulation of blood ; similarly roads promote nation's wealth by keeping its people and goods moving. Thus, we see that progress and well-being of a nation depends much on roads. In fact, roads are the life lines of nation's economy.

Highway Transportaion

The imporatance or necessity of highway transportation can be easily judged from the following purposes or advantages of roads:-

1. They facilitate conveyance of people, goods, raw-materials, manufactured articles, etc. speedily and easily in the different parts of a country. 
2. They act as the only source of communication in regions of high altitude i.e in mountainous regions.
3. They help in growth of trade and other economy activities in and outside the villages and towns by establishing contact between towns and villages.
4. They help in providing efficient distribution of agricultural products and natural resources all over the country.
5. They help in price stabilization of commodities due to mobility of products all over the country.
6. They help in social and cultural advancement of people and making the villagers active and alert members of the community.
7. They help in promoting the cultural and social ties among people living in different part of a country and thus strengthen the national unity.
8. They help in providing improved medical facilities quickly to human beings, especially to those who live in rural areas.
9. They provide more employment opportunities.
10. They enhance land value and thus bring better revenue.
11. They serve as feeders for Airways, Waterways and Railways.
12. They help in reducing distress among the people, caused due to famine, by supplying them food and clothing quickly.

Lastly, it can be sad that roads are the symbol of country's progress and thus development made by any country can be judged by the quality and network of it's road system.