A transport contract is a contract in which the carrier transports passengers or goods from the place of departure to the destination, and the passenger, shipper or consignee pays the ticket (transportation and miscellaneous fees). The transportation contract has the following characteristics:

1. There are many forms of transport contracts, including passenger transport contracts, freight transport contracts and multimodal transport contracts.

2. The transportation contract is a double-service, paid contract, most of which are standard contracts.

3. The object of the contract of carriage is the carrier's transport behavior of transporting goods or passengers to the destination.

4. The particularity of the passenger transport contract in the transport contract is as follows: the passenger is both the transport object and the contract party; Passenger transport contracts usually take the form of tickets; Passenger transport contracts generally include the transport of luggage carried by passengers in addition to passenger transport.