The connectivity of modern transportation and logistics for sustainable development in Thailand

It is well known that investment in transportation and logistics, especially rail transportation, is one of Thailand’s 20-year national strategic plan. The strategy aims at fully linking the existing rail transportation system with the air transportation and other current modes of transportation for supporting the demand of foreigner, who shortly travel in Thailand, and the expanding of economic from the big cities to small cities. Regarding this study, the effect of building the modern transportation and logistics system in Thailand is intensely focused. Also, this study points out the methodology to integrate with others study fields; for example, the combination with the medical field to increase the opportunity of treatment. With respect to the information on May 2019, Thailand’s government has revealed the plan to invest in rail transportation infrastructure more than one billion billion baht with the overseas government. The project gains higher investment funds for developing more than other modes of transportation and logistics.However, the operation on the high-speed rail service has been a challenge for government and rail firms around the world because the return on investment may take up to 20 – 30 years in average for the structure cost and, the operating cost is slightly chance to return on investment. In the day and age, there are two lines of the high-speed rail in the world, which is the Tokaido Shinkansen from Japan and Jinghu HSR from China, have gained daily profit. Therefore, the planning on the transportation structure in Thailand is a big chance of researcher to give a priority on the designing of routing, operational service, frequently of the high-speed rail per hour and quality of other related services. It’s provided to support the foreigners’ and passengers’ demand for steadiness reaching transportation and logistics. Regarding the developed countries, high-speed rail has become the main public transportation and logistics. Although they lacked profit, the government has subsided the operational costs. Many countries took the sustainability model to combine with the transportation and logistics system due to they believed that the success of the country’s transportation and logistics system might interpret in others criterial excepts the profit, i.e., country’s GDP, number of investors, the explanation of business area, the environment impacts and so on. The criteria to measure the success of the transportation and logistics system can be divided into three fields containing with the social, the economic and the environment.