So it is. A vast and intricate network of transportation.

Author: Qian Pinglei
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: So That's How It Works, Bridging the Gap from Public Enlightenment to Public Understanding through Practice. Asking "Why" a Million Times and Telling You So. With the development of the social economy, the aviation industry has also rapidly expanded its functions. The large-scale of passenger and cargo aircraft is one of the important signs of aviation technology development. The Boeing 747-400 can carry over 400 passengers, and the A380, scheduled to take to the skies in 2005, can carry up to 550 people, not far behind a passenger train. The topic that follows is the construction of airports. Guangzhou and Beijing's new airports have already reached an annual throughput of over 25 million to 60 million passengers. Shanghai has even emerged with two international airports—Pudong and Hongqiao—coexisting, creating conditions for Shanghai to become an international aviation hub. Today, all modes of transportation have undergone a historical process of transformation from quantitative change to qualitative change. How to reasonably integrate various modes of transportation and leverage their strengths is the challenge before us. Comprehensive transportation organized based on systems engineering and logistics organization driven by information technology are the most advanced forms of transportation organization. Modern logistics organization is a system that integrates various high technologies and plays a significant role in the socio-economy, making it the future direction of transportation organization.