Essays on Transportation

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....

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...

Transportation is one of the many factors that influence the health in many societies. The level of a transportation system describes how far civilizations have traveled. Transportation is defined as the movement of goods and services from one location to another. Transportation paves a pathway...

Transportation keeps the global economy in motion. Without transportation industry, and especially without the shipping sector, it would be impossible to trade, let alone in the scale of our times, goods and services. The world economy has had such a huge growth over the last...

Tokyo is known for its excellent public transportation. It consists of an enormous and compact network of train, subway and bus lines. It has the largest urban rail network in the world and is used by several transportation companies. The most important train is the...

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...

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...

Traffic management is a key branch within logistics. It concerns the planning control and purchasing of transport services neede to physically move vehicles an freight. It is needed for the smooth flow of car movement and it also provides safety for everyone. Mostly it is...

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...

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...

Introduction No matter how advanced our world can be, without cohesiveness and continuous improvement, the whole system will break down. For sustainability to be maintained, it is essential to provide a security service for three spheres: social, environmental and economic. There are many strategies and...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The industrial revolution marked one of the most imperative periods in history. Before the Industrial Revolution, there was a significant interruption in nearly every procedure in the United States, where it often took months to send packages, letters or any sort of information across the...

Introduction 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....

When it comes to paving roads or roads, one of the most environmentally friendly trends is the cobblestone. Is it really good to pave a street instead of applying an asphalt folder? Advantages and benefits of the cobble Permeability: The paving stones are elements that...

In 1932 an electrical engineer named Henry Charles Beck, more commonly known as Harry Beck, bestowed it upon himself to redesign the London Underground map and became one of the pioneers that contributed to the success of The Underground. This critical paper explores the success...

Introduction Irrespective of locations cycle rickshaw has the tradition of being the most popular vehicle for urban resident. These are the eco-friendly non polluting transport systems. In another way, rickshaw pullers are low wage transportation service provider which plays as the role of backbone of...

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...

The Thai–Burma railway which also called the Death Railway. The Thailand-Burma Railway and the Burma-Siam Railway and the similar names, was a 415-kilometre railway connecting Ban Pong, Thanbyuzayat and Thailand, Burma, create by the Empire of Japan in 1943 to sustain its influence in the...

Motorcycles Need a Split Lane You hear the loud, ripping engine tear right past you out of nowhere- it’s a motorcycle, making its way through the traffic and leaving you in the dust. Some are surprised that this maneuver of driving in-between lanes is allowed...

Everything in the modern world is centered around ease and comfort. The innovation of technology has always been geared towards finding a way to make human lives easier. However, it has long been a difficulty for us to achieve a solution when it comes to...

National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is a United State (U.S.) agency for educating and promoting safety. They provide safety rules and regulation to all transportation for U.S. such as aviation, railroad, highway, marine, pipeline and hazardous material safety for the U.S. NTSB was founded in...

VESSELS Vessels are defined as: v A water craft bigger than a rowboat. v An airship. v A ship or huge boat. KINDS of vessels SERVICE VESSELS The word service means to provide or to give. That is the reason why service vessels main purpose...

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...

The Indian transportation industry is continually creating at a CAGR of 15 percent. With more than seven million stock vehicles moving around the country, the load volume has accomplished 1,325 billion ton-km, an expect that should twofold by 2025. We spend practically 14 percent of...