Essays on Transportation

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...

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....

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...

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...

Before Charles Tyson Yerkes was an American Financier, who in 1900, created the Underground Electric Railways Company of London as a way of controlling the District Railway. Yerkes wanted to become involved in the development of the London underground railway system and strived to unify...

Background Food miles are miles over which a food item is transported during the journey from producer to consumer, as a unit of measurement of the fuel used to transport it. The food miles’ concept, originating in the UK and given much prominence in the...

“ Political analysis; The government impact is rules, tents and control of the business. Also it can be tax assessment, arrangement, work lowers. As indicated by Virgin Airline administration, they are an articulation with different political difficulties when business spread into outside nations contrasted with...

“ When Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways, Mr. Nitin inaugurated the (ETC) system in October 2016, the hi-tech facility, coming under the name of FASTag, brought in a uniform and acceptable standard of service to commuters. It would also immediately avoid congestion and...

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...

NSW rail network is about 9400 km of nominal route standard gauge. Rail network is managed by three government networks, Country Regional Network (CRN), NSW Interstate, Hunter Valley and Metropolitan Freight Networks and Metropolitan Passenger Network. While private sector operators that provides rail freight services...

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...

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...

Myanmar (Myan, mar), is a delightful country, where eternal landscapes and ancients civilizations fill its vast land. Over half of country is covered by think typical forests, beautiful golden pagodas and preserved temples fill the countryside. The temples are more than 200 years old and...

DHL or Dalsey, Hillblom and Lynn is a German Corporation that provides transportation and logistics. It has been transported in several ways from transportation, documents, letters to containers. DHL consists of three main divisions: DHL Express, DHL Danzas Air & Ocean and DHL Solutions Key...

Though Kerala is receives high rainfall in the order of 3000mm per annum, the temporal variations in its occurrence leads to acute water scarcity during the non-monsoon periods. About 50% of the population in urban area and 80% in rural area are still depending on...

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...

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...

Transport, alongside housing, is Auckland’s most significant challenge and underpins many of the outcomes council is seeking to achieve for Auckland. Auckland Transport also represents council’s largest investment. Ultimately it is the council’s elected members who are accountable to the public in terms of the...

Roads Roads are considered as major source of transportation and are categorized as Motorways and Highways. Motorways The construction of motorways began in the early 1990s with the idea building a world class road network and to reduce the load off the heavily used national...

3D transportation is a recent idea of new transportation that is beginning to be explored in the United States from new innovative companies such as, The Boring Company. To solve the problem of soul-destroying traffic, roads must go 3D, which means either flying cars or...

World War one started on the 28th of July 1914 between two sides; The triple alliance and the triple entente. It ended on the 11th of November 1918. Difference in policies were to blame, although the immediate cause of World War one was the assassination...

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...

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...

Inbound logistics: the Raw material like coffee is the main input of the Tim Horton’s. These things are sourced from producer associations in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Once in Canada the creation and distribution are for the most part made in-house to control value...

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,...

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...

With the advancements in PC hardware and programming change systems in the past years, mechanized PC amusement to get ready improvement and balance structures have been comprehensively gotten as a standard PC upheld building instrument in the midst of the arrangement and headway periods of...

Autonomous Ride-sharing Uber was founded in 2009 to make transportation as reliable as running water, everywhere, for everyone, using a smartphone app to connect customers with drivers. Rapid growth saw Uber in 100 cities internationally by April 2014. The on-demand ride-share service began several years...

In the present context of society the most precious thing is “Time”. We must have come across this phrase “Time is money” in our day to day lives. Although money can be earned back but we can’t reverse the time. In order to save people...