Reality and Prospects of the Developing Railway-Based Express Freight Transport in China

This thesis firstly elaborates the developmental characteristics and experiences of foreign railway-based express freight transport system, and then proclaims the essential trends of fierce competition in Chinese express transport market. Sequentially it analyses the market competing abilities of two express transport products("five-set regular trains" and "luggage-parcel express") which have been developed by China transport enterprises in recent years, and points out the struggling way of further developing and perfecting railway-based express freight transport on the basis of Chinese fundamental national conditions. At last, the thesis looks into the Chinese railway-based Express Freight Transport System in the future with the features, construction objective, technique equipment and transport organization and management of the system.