what is highway transportation? and Its importance

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.
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.