抄録
This study investigates the transition of conveyance means in Hokkaido, and the development process is clarified from the relation with the winter. We investigated transport function from the viewpoint of snow removing works. The railway brought about large effect in the physical distribution system in Hokkaido, because the transportation in the winter was possible for the railway from the Meiji era. There was called relay station system with Hokkaido original, and it persisted by 1947. It was a system necessary for the transportation by the horse. As the result, the following are clarified for the transport characteristics in the winter: Relay stations in Hokkaido were retained in the long term by necessity of the transportation by the horse and physical distribution function which relay stations had.
