铁路在运输市场中的地位及其发展趋势

Railway's Status and Developmental Tendency in the Transport Markets

就铁路在综合运输市场中所承担的客货运量变化情况，分析其在我国运输市场中的地位及发展趋势。对铁路参与市场竞争的因素———经济运距，作了简要分析。提出了铁路运输在近期应提高路网密度、列车速度和服务质量，远期应加强大通道建设。

According to the alteration of the passenger and freight volume which railway undertook in the past years, this paper analyses railway's status and its developmental tendency in the transport markets in our country. One of the factors, economic transport distance, on which railway depends to participate in the competition of transport markets is analyzed briefly. Several strategic measures about railway's development in the short term and forward are presented.