Introduction
Transportation is defined as the movement of freight and passengers from one location to another. Transportation engineers should consider about safety, efficiency, convenience and economical nature of such movement of goods and people.
The specific purpose of transportation is to fulfill a demand and mobility.
Importance of Transportation
Historical
- Rise of civilization - Inter-continent transfer by human
- Development of Societies - creation of social structures
- National Defense
Political
Economical
Social
Drivers of Transport
- Finance
- Policy
- Demography
- Energy and Environment
- Technology
- Economics
Element of transportation system
- The vehicle or carrier or unit if carriege
- The motive power or unit of propulsion
- The way
- The terminal
01. The vehicle or carrier or unit if carriege
- Passenger carrier and freight carrier
02. Motive Power
- Natural - wind, gravity, animal
- Man made - electric driven, steam power
03. Way - Medium on or through which the transport unit travels in performing its function
- Natural ways - air, open sea
- Artificially improved ways - canals
- Artificial way - Roads, railway.
04. Terminal
- Places where interchange between different vehicles of same mode of transport or between different modes of transport can take place
Main functions
- Allow access to vehicle operating on a specified way
- Permit easy interchange between vehicle operating on specified way and between different mode of transport
- facilitate consolidation of traffic
