Galino, Mike Andrey O.

BSCE 2-1 January 30,2020

IMPORTANCE OF TRANSPORTATION
A. Different Modes of Transportation
 Road Transportation - The first, and most common mode of transportation in logistics, is
road. 
 Rail Transportation and Pipelines – First invented for use in the early 19th century, rail
transport quickly became vital for the expansion of the western world and has played a
pivotal role in the realm of logistics for over two centuries.
 Maritime Transportation – With physical properties such as buoyancy and limited
friction, maritime transportation is the most effective mode to move large quantities of
cargo over long distances. 
 Air Transportation – Air routes are practically unlimited, but they are denser over the
North Atlantic, inside North America and Europe and over the North Pacific.
 Intermodal Transportation(Multimodal) – Concerns a variety of modes used in
combination so that the respective advantages of each mode are advantaged.
 Telecommunications – Cover a grey area in terms of if they can be considered as a
transport mode since telecommunications often do not have an apparent physicality. They
provide for the “instantaneous” movement of information (speed of light). 
B. Characteristics of Road Transport
 Roads are used various types of road vehicles like passenger cars, buses, trucks two and
three wheeled automobiles pedal cycles and animal drawn vehicles.
 Road transport completely offer a freedom to road users to transfer the vehicles from one
lane to another and to from one road to another according to the need and convenience.
 Road transport is the only means of transport offer itself to the whole community.
 Road Transport is subjected to high degree of accidents due to flexibility of movements
offered to the user.
 Road transport requires a relatively small investment for the government.
 Road transport saves time.
 The Major defect of road is Traffic.
C. Scope of Highway and Traffic Engineering
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