Automobile Transportation Taking the Cargo Volume into Consideration

Abstract

The transportation by automobile is very important and main mode of cargo transportation, and its modal share takes 91 percent of ton base and also 51 percent of ton-km base in Japan. The importance of automobile transportation will not change in the future. In this paper, we analyze the coordination of volume between cargo and automobile, and then we consider the deregulative counterplan to meet the situations of increasing volume capacity for cargo loading and also reducing the number of large and heavy type automobiles. The coordination of the cargo volume capacity of large and heavy type automobiles is not so good in the relation of loading the consumption goods. We conclude that the volume capacity for cargo loading will be increased and the number of large type automobiles can be reduced by the deregulative counterplan for the height of automobile taking the construction limits of the road into consideration. At the same time, this deregulative counterplan contributes largely to the road haulage of the international high cube containers.