The growing importance of road transport is rooted in the following reasons:

1. The construction cost of roadways is much lower than that of the railways.
2. Its maintenance is also cheap and easy.
3. Roads can be built in mountainous areas. The roads can traverse comparatively more dissected and undulating topography.
4. Roads can negotiate higher gradients of slopes and as such can traverse mountains such as the Himalayas.
5. Road transport is economical in the transportation of a few persons and a relatively smaller amount of goods over short distances.
6. It provides door-to-door service, which results in a lower cost of loading and unloading.
7. It is used as a feeder to other modes of transport such as they provide a link between railway stations, air, and seaports.
8. Road transport connects fields with markets and factories.
9. Road transport is useful for the transport of perishable commodities.