Roads in small municipal area
Roads in small municipal areas such as districts and
sub-districts.
Concession highways
A special road, in which the government provided for public use.
The Department of Highways is responsible for only 3 categories: special highways,
national highways and concession highways.
The State Railway of Thailand was first set up as a government department, however it
afterwards became an autonomous organization as a result of the State Railway Act B.E. 2494,
taking over the business as well as the assets and liabilities of the State Railways Department. The
first inauguration line commenced in 1892 and the line was then extended to Nakhon Ratchasima in
1900, with a distance of 264 kilometres. For all the earlier lines, the railway tracts used the 4 feet 8.5
inches gauge system. From the year 1900 onwards, the construction of the Southern main line had
brought into the one metre gauge system, the intention of this was to link Thailand with Malaysia
and the Union of Myanmar. The conversion to metre gauge system was decided upon in 1919, and
completed in April 1930.
Air transport:
Its statistics has been derived from the Department of Aviation and the
Airports Authority of Thailand. Air transport statistics were obtained the data on the number of
flight, passengers, air freight, air parcel and so on. At present, Thailand has thirty-three local airports
including six international airports.
