Freight transportation has increased greatly over the last few
decades. It must meet the challenges in modern industry.
From the perspective of freight production, freight transportation is
composed of external economic demand and transportation supply
system. According to the haul distance, the freight transportation
demand can be divided into three classes, including regional freight
transportation, interlocal freight transportation and transit freight
transportation. The regional freight transportation is the most basic
level of the social life in this region, and the development of the
regional freight transportation is strongly correlated with the regional
economic development. The regional freight transportation also
focuses on modern industrial applications. Thus, regional plan, especially logistics plan, is becoming even more important. In general, the transportation demand is defined as the freight volume. The freight volume is formed by the interaction of transportation demand and transportation supply. Besides, the transportation demand should match well with the existing transportation capacity. The characteristics of regional freight transportation demand are their regional feature, the pertinence to freight demand connotation, the phased development of freight demand, malconformation of freight demand distribution and the complexity and diversity of freight demand species.