Study Transition from Water Transport to Basin logistics——Literary Review
Water transportation,especially inland water transportation,cannot satisfy the social demand,which is shown on its poor social recognition and weak infrastructure.With decades' rapid economic development of Chinese basins,many evident changes are happening in water transportation research: from its position discussion to strategy planning,from single to multiplex methods and theories,from micro issues to the top system design,etc.The innovative research is needed and systematic theories should be constructed,however,if the academics want to change fundamentally the current research situation of the so called small,scattered and chaotic.Basin logistics theory is first built and introduced under this trend after integrating the current theories,methods and technologies,and tries theoretic breakthrough in both water transport and logistics research.