Study on Managing Effects of Information Technology Applied on Transportation

Environmental pollution, traffic accident and so on, all these externality problems caused by transportation conflicted with the accepted social sustainable development. Many countries adopted the pollution control, transportation regulation or other restrictive policy to solve the problems, but on the whole had little effect. To show new thoughts to this problem, the paper studies the measures by using information technology (IT) based on evaluating qualitatively two forms of managing effect, substitutive effect and stimulative effect, of IT application on transportation, through analysis of data related to the freight turnover and the number of telephone in China from 1952 to 1998, reveals their close and perplexing relationship, takes simulative analysis in the case of a city, and concludes some findings, enlightenment and proposals to the corresponding further study.