Essays on Transportation

The transcontinental railroad increased greatly in the Westward expansion in the United States during the 19th century. History of the United States has been obstructed by England in so many ways. In the 1800’s the railroad which was developed in England had a huge impact...

Mass media programs in reporting road safety Road mobility is a primary requirement for human life that has become a universal calamity as an ever-rising cause of death and disability worldwide (Mahmud et al, 2011). Mass media mostly radios and journalists can play a key...

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...

Abstract In the modern world, there is a huge increase in traffic congestion and the rate at which people are buying vehicles significantly rises every year. Traffic Signals are used to control the flow of traffic and are the most essential component of road safety...

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...

Introduction 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....

“Industrial development and world inhabitants are uninterruptedly increasing and this requests high energy consumption day in day out. As a matter of facts, the charge of crude oil, coal, and other natural gases is growing worst from time to time. Responsiveness of global climate alteration...

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...

Introduction The underground drainage system is an important component of urban infrastructure. It is consider being city’s lifeline. Most management on underground drainage is manual therefore it is not efficient to have clean and working underground system also in such big cities. It is difficult...

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...

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...

Either the shipper or the consignee pays destination handling. If the profitable terms are delivered duty unpaid or paid, it is the obligation of the transporter to pay all costs related with bringing the load to the consignee’s buildings, including terminus handling. For other commercial...

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...

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...

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...

Background In the cities and towns of third world countries, especially, where the streets are narrow, one medium of transportation for social elite has been Cycle Rickshaw. Since 1880s they’ve played a pivotal role in the intra-city transport system since they are the only medium...

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...

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 aim of this report it to show the effects of what will happen on the supply and demand curves when three different types of policies are introduced, the three types of policies in the report that will be discussed are; congestion charge or tax,...

The US car rental industry is currently dominated by the three major firms – Enterprise Holdings, Hertz and Avis. Enterprise Holdings in the largest of three, which revenue is nearly equal to the combined sales of Hertz and Avis, operates as Enterprise Rent-A-Car, National Car...