以人类运输活动所采用的主要驱动力为依据，把运输技术的发展历史划分为四个基本阶段；概括地指出了载体技术与路港技术是构成运输技术系统的基本单元，其间的矛盾运动推动着运输技术进步；阐述了运输技术体系的内部构成与外部联系；从运输活动的基本矛盾出发，结合当代科技与社会发展现实，对现代运输技术的四个发展方向做了概括性描述。

According to different driving powers of transport tools, this article divides the history of transport technology into four basic phases and generally points out that the carrier technology and the road-harbor technology are the basic cells of the system of transport technology, and the contradiction between them is the main reason for the progress of transport technology. Then the article analyzes the internal structure and external relations of a transport technology system. Finally, based on the analysis on contradictions in transport, the reality of contemporary science & technology and social development, this article prospects the four developing directions of contemporary transport technology.