Transport Cost Studies Rail and Road Transport

Abstract

The Committee on Transport Policy and Coordination while discussing the question of Transport Costs stated as under: "To establish transport costs accurately as a means to effective cost control is a necessary step even where a commodity moves only by a single mode of transport, for the effort here must be to ensure transport at the lowest cost feasible. Where the commodity moves to a destination by more than one mode of transport, for instance, to a port by road and rail or, by a rail-cum-river route, there is need to break down the various elements of cost, so that those which can be controlled or avoided may be identified.