Summary and Future Research

Abstract

The completion and opening of the Qinghai–Tibet railway shorten the space and time gap between the Qinghai–Tibet region and other parts of the country and promote the integration of this region into the national market. The change of transportation and information conditions will directly drive the development of local agriculture and animal husbandry and improve the ability of relevant industries to resist risks and disasters. After the Qinghai–Tibet railway is put into operation, it is expected that 75% of the freight volume will be borne by the railway in the future. According to the designed transportation capacity of the Qinghai–Tibet railway, the one-way transportation capacity of the Qinghai–Tibet railway is more than 40 times of the current automobile freight transportation capacity of the whole region of Tibet. The opening of the Qinghai–Tibet railway will reduce the transportation cost by more than half, thus thoroughly breaking the bottleneck of Qinghai–Tibet transportation and greatly alleviating the situation of tight transport capacity.