Caracterización del transporte férreo y su importancia en el desarrollo económico colombiano

Abstract

The vehicle transportation system that was implemented at first gave good results but at present it is not so; it is a fact that Colombia needs to implement a transportation system for the people and merchandise, which should help to boost the economic and transport development in the country. Although the government system insists on investing and fully contributing to a unimodal transport system focused on roads, whose cost is much higher than the railroad, which have advantages of economies of scale. However, the situation regarding the mismanagement of the railway system in Colombia throughout history has been well-known where it has been shown that the problems of corruption, mismanagement and waste of public resources prevent the current government will risk this system that would positively modify the conditions of commercialization and taking into account the current state of the country, in which the expansion of International Trade has become one of the main guidelines of economic growth.