Research On Construction Of Road Freight Cost Index System

Road freight industry is the foundation and an important service industry to nationaleconomy and social development. At present, road freight industry is highly marketable, theprice is totally determined by the market, as a foundational service industry, freight industry isvery sensitive to factors like relevant national policies, supply and demand of the market,especially as oil price and labor cost rise sharply in recent years and other problems like highand irregular charges, enterprise management environment deteriorate and operational costrise sharply, which seriously affects the healthy development of the industry. The price, cost,supply and demand information is non-transparent and asymmetric, transport enterprises haveinsufficient information of the market, thus the road freight industry is in low-leveloperational state, appear as market failure and imbalance of freight cost and price structure,which is also the deep-seated reason of freight market resource allocation imbalance. In2011,General Office of the State Council released one document on further promoting the healthyand stable development of road transport industry, which pointed out that investigating andmeasuring the road freight average rational price and publishing regularly to the society,setting up transport price-oil price linkage mechanism and forming a reasonable transportprice is the foundational means for the government and relevant administrative departmentsregulating and guiding healthy market development, which is important for transformingfreight industry management, strengthening solving of social problems by the market andguiding enterprises exactly grasp the market development state, correct decision-making andscientific development. Under above background, this thesis makes a study to the constructionof road freight transport cost index, reviews the theoretical framework of road freighttransport cost, makes a detailed analysis to the evolution stage, definition and connotation,compositional structure, main characteristics and affecting factors of road freight cost, putsforward principles for setting up cost index system, conforms the calculation method for theindex system, sets up a normative and comprehensive method framework for texting cost andindex construction, establishes a relatively accelerated road freight cost framework accordingto relevant index theory, and makes a study to the statistical survey for collection of coststatistics, builds up realistic cost monitoring index, index system structure, calculation methodand information investigation and gathering method, which provides a powerful means forcarrying out road freight market monitoring.