Essays on Transportation

Problem statement In Kenyan roads accidents are at alarming rate since death rate stands at 3000 per year which arises due to human error. This brings the need to reduce the problem and provide reliable information on the condition of our Kenyan roads and parameters...

Transportation services are a hot topic dominating the news today. With the introduction and proliferation of services like Zipcar, Uber, Sidecar, and car2go, the average city dweller has reaped the benefits of a more robust urban transportation infrastructure. But not all response has been positive....

Water based vehicles, air-based vehicles, electric vehicles, and automobile vehicles are some of them. But automobile vehicles are well known. Many engineers are involving and interesting in this industry. Only few developments are remaining now. Definitely most of the people like to own these automobile...

Can anyone honestly say that they have never benefitted from public transport? Public transport has revolutionised travel since the 19th century (Study.com, 2015). It reduces congestion, makes travelling easier, is better for the environment and continues to get safer and safer. I cannot begin to...

Transport services provided by the local government or the state government are usually affordable, accessible in most regions and aids movement to health facilities, recreational centers, schools and work places. A recent increase in population of cities, connecting nodes as a result of rural-urban migration...

Everyone has their own sources of transportation they use to go to work, school, grocery stores, and so forth. Transportation is a vehicle or system of vehicles, such as buses, trains, etc. (Cambridge Dictionary English) for getting from one place to another but there are...

 The debate between whether public transportation or private transportation is superior to the other has been going on for some time now as the efficiency, flexibility, and cost continually influence Melbourne’s transportation user’s decisions every day. Not only does this affect the general population but...

The internet has been becoming more accessible in better quality to citizens recently due to mainly business purposes. Thus, it is unnecessary to prioritize internet improvement so far. On the other hand, most of public transportation still lacks in wide areas globally. The lack of...

Traditional Practices Followed Carpooling also referred to as car-sharing is the sharing of car journeys so that more than one person travels in a car, saves time, traffic problems, pollution and restricts only a single car to travel to the same location. By having more people...

India is undergoing rapid urbanization has contributed positively to increasing the distribution rate of vehicles. An aspirational and growing middle-class has led to a massive addition of cars to Indian roads from 6.1million in 2000 to 30.2 million in 2016, according to Ministry of Road...

Spending on transportation is part of what we consider to be fixed expenses in a family, whether to move to work, to study or simply because we live in areas further away from the large urban centers. In this situation, car sharing becomes an excellent...

According to research done by the University of Waterloo, the key to making ride sharing work is to actually enjoy the people you carpool with. A professor of management engineering at the University of waterloo, Bissan Ghaddar, wanted to get a better understanding about what...

There is one word that the human race has adored and worshipped since the very beginning of their existence: Convenience. Scientists and innovators have spent countless hours making use of whatever resources are available to ease the struggles of humanity and to improve the quality...

Imagine that you had to travel from the San Francisco Bay Area to Los Angeles in a hurry. What mode of transportation would you choose? You could travel by airplane, but you would likely be forced to deal with the hassle of acquiring tickets, traffic...

In one of the readings discussed in class, Patsy Healey has emphasized the importance of contingent factors in the success of the transfer of ideas. To illustrate her point in the context of Lebanon one would think of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system between...

Transportation is that aspect of economic activity which provides for the carriage of person and goods from one place to another. Transportation can prosper only if the transport system is provided which enables the necessary carriage to be made, in a way and at a...

Commuters know the struggle of being stuck in traffic. In fact, most cities around the world are dealing with congestion. These traffic jams not only affect economic growth and development, but the lack of traffic control also disrupts various aspects of an individual’s life. More...

In the past, people used to travel by foot from one place to another. It became a problem when they had to travel with some of their goods, especially for long distances. This is when they introduced the idea of using animals as a mode...

This paper is about air freight vs sea freight. In this paper, factors that are considered before making a decision between sea freight and air freight are discussed. They include cost and nature of goods, weight, and space, delivery time and safety, and pricing. If...

Today shipping is one of the most popular groups of carriers in the world, and container shipping occupies the lion’s share of 60% of the total industry. Containers are popular due to their security, reliability and the ability to move dangerous cargo in themselves. But...

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is a group consisting of 12 of the world’s major oil-exporting nations. OPEC was founded to coordinate the petroleum policies of its members, and to provide member states with technical and economic aid. In the short term, the...

Shanghai, with a total population of more than 24 million, is the largest developed Chinese city (by population) and arguably the most developed among the four municipalities that are directly administered by the Chinese central government. As a result, Shanghai is the economic hub of...

While studying abroad this summer with SUNY Maritime College in Asia I noticed many pros and cons of outsourcing. I believe it’s better for a transportation company to control the management of its relationships with different intermediaries, outsource that management to a 3 to 4pl,...

Radio-frequency identification (RFID) uses electromagnetic fields to automatically identify and track tags attached to objects. The tags contain electronically stored information. Unlike a barcode, the tag need not be within the line of sight of the reader, so it may be embedded in the tracked...

BRT can be labelled as a more flexible mass transit compared to others because it allows other tire-based vehicles in the guided way to facilitate interconnection and performance enhancement (Deng and Nelson 2011). Moreover, considering the political aspect of mass transit planning, BRT implementation can...

Since logistics advanced from 1950s, there were numerous researches focused on this area in different applications. Due to the trend of nationalisation and globalisation in recent decades, the importance of logistics management has been growing in various areas. For industries, logistics helps to optimise the...

Nowadays information systems are integrating four main components. Software, hardware, people and data those components will be analyzed further. The evolution of information systems has allowed synchronized its components in dairy life in digital age. Typically, organizations such as UBER are responsible of implementing plenty...

Myanmar (Myan, mar), is a perfect country, where endless landscapes, ancients civilizations and adventures places fill its huge land. Think typical forests surrounded the half of country, beautiful golden pagodas and well-preserved temples fill the landscape. The temples are more than 200 years old and...

Ola is an online transportation network company established in 2010. They have created a platform for users to book a cab by providing them with an easy mobile application while they operate as an online cab aggregator. They tend to bring the cab drivers and...

Cutting edge innovation is exceptionally huge in current correspondence and transportation since it increments both unwavering quality and productivity. Dispatch benefit industry is among those parts that have essentially profited from refined PC innovation. A messenger is characterized as an organization or individual who conveys...