The development of national economy can't do without a modern transportation and logistics system. People's frequent travelling adds to traffic flow; commerce and trade activities add to cargo flow. The fast growth of transportation and logistics demands is driving the whole world into greatly upgrading traditional transportation and logistics system with IT technology so as to establish an informationized transportation network covering regions, countries and the world at large.
With more and more frequent commerce and trade activities and reliance on internet consumption, informationization has become an inevitable trend in modern transportation and logistics industry; the informationization in transportation and logistics system shall offer effective secure and humane services.
The construction of informationized transportation and logistics system means upgrading traditional transportation system into informationized, intelligent and socialized services transportation system via new and high technologies.
The advantages of informationization in transportation and logistics are apparent: maximize the role of transportation facilities and energy; obtain enormous social and economic benefits; exert positive role on traffic security, traffic accidents processing and rescuing, passenger and cargo transportation administration and road tolling systems.