STUDYING IMPACTS OF USING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM OF COUNTRY FROM ECONOMIC STANDPOINT

Abstract

In recent years and in developed societies, transportation engineers together with specialists in telecommunication and communication, electronic, computer and other fields have created Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) by utilizing the facilities that at the present time are known to be results of IT; ITS has a suitable and desirable infrastructure to realize and access the specified following goals. Information technology makes the corporations to use their resources and institutions in the best possible way. As investment in information technology capital for investment in capital stock is considered an ever increasing share, to understand how this investment can be compensated is also important. In the present paper impacts of information technology on transportation sector and economical aspects of it especially its impacts on the value added of transportation of provinces in sub-sector of passenger carrying was studied by using method of unbalance panel data and data gathered from 2012 until 2016. Impacts of information technology on the value added of passenger transport sector were analyzed with two types of total variables and separated variables. Results showed that investment in other than information technology, human capital, rate of population growth, investment in information technology, expenditure and investment in hardware and software, have positive and significant effect on the value added of passenger transport sector.