Group 5

Dayo, Nicole Jade

Dela Rama, Rodel
Eder, Joseph Kenneth
Garcia, Bryan
Importance of transp
ortation
Importance of transportatio
n
• Transportation is literally described as a means of carrying people as well as goods and animals
from one location to another. It has been in existence since the earliest times where wooden ca
rts and animals like horses, donkeys, and bulls were used exclusively. As tines changed we saw n
umerous inventions taking place and the changes resulted in the invention of cars, buses, trucks
, spacecraft, helicopters, ships, airplanes, etc taking the place of earlier transports.
• The importance of transportation is that it enables trade, commerce, and communication that e
stablish civilization. It is good planning that manages traffic flows and enables the undisturbed a
nd steady movement from one place to another.
• It is transportation that acts as a link between manufacturing facilities and consumer markets. T
ransportation is a reality of our life and without effective and affordable transportation it beco
mes impossible for any kind of movement from one place to another.
• Transportation has been an all-important contributing factor in the development of all the natio
ns and that too at every stage of civilization in this world. Remember if the current transport m
eans were not in existence the situation in this modern world would have been quite different.
• It is impossible to think of speedy industrialization as well as mass production as well as distribu
tion in place without a fully developed infrastructure and transportation. The transportation fac
ilities have also been a prominent factor in the development of political, social, economic and c
ultural fields of a country.
• Transportation helps in mass production and stabilit
y of prices
• Transportation helps in economic development
• Transportation offers numerous opportunities
• Transportation helps in social development
• Transportation helps in industrial and agricultural d
evelopment
• Transportation helps in political development
• Transportation helps in bringing people closer durin
g natural calamities
• Transportation helps in cultural development
• Transportation helps in the growth of business orga
nizations
Characteristics of r
oad transport
• Characteristics of Road Transport
•         It is an accepted fact that of all the modes the t
ransportation, road transport is the nearest to the p
eople. The passenger and the goods have to be first
transported by road before reaching a railway statio
n or a port or an airport. The road network alone co
uld serve the remotest villages of the vast country li
ke ours.
• Roads are used various types of road vehicles, like passenger cars, buses, tr
ucks two and three wheeled automobiles ,pedal cycles and animal drawn v
ehicles. But railway tracks are used only by rail locomotives and wagons, wa
ter ways are used by only ships and boats.
• Road transport requires a relatively small investment for the government.
Motor vehicles are much cheaper than carriers like rail locomotives and wa
gons, water and air carriers. Construction and maintenance of roads is also
cheaper than that of railway track, docks, harbours and airports.
• Road transport completely offer a freedom to road users to transfer the veh
icles from one lane to another and to from one road to another according t
o the need and convenience. This flexibility of changes in location, direction
, speed and timings of travel is not available to other modes of transport.
• In particular for short distance travel, road transport saves time. Trains stop
at junctions and main stations for comparatively longer time.
• Speed of movement is directly related with severity of accident. The road S
afety decreases with increase dispersion in speed. Road Transport is subject
ed to high degree of accidents due to flexibility of movements offered to th
e user. Derailment of railway locomotives and air planes and air crashes are
not uncommon. They are in fact more disastrous.
• Road transport is the only means of transport offer itself to the whole com
munity.
Scope of highway and
traffic engineering