Transportation has a very important contribution in social, economic and physical progress of the nation. Transportation makes the exchange of goods and people possible. It also helps to link distant places. National integration and processes like industrialization arid urbanization are made possible due to transportation. It brings the urban and rural people as well as people all around the world closer to each other.

The distribution of natural resources is uneven everywhere and so transport of goods among various parts of the world becomes very important. Better the transport system, better the economic, social and political stability of the country. Thus transportation is one of the yardsticks to measure the economic, social and political progress of the country.