Transportation

Transport or transportation is the movement of people and goods from one location to another.Modes of transportation include air, rail, roads, water, cables, pipelines, and space.

Today, automotive technology is on the verge of a giant leap forward that could be as revolutionary as when the carriage gave up the horse at the beginning of the 20^th century. And it will not only involve new power systems, but it will probably include new vehicle types - personal vehicles that we’ve only barely envisioned at this point - and perhaps even a restructuring of cities and the way we do business.

Transportation helps shape an area’s economic health and quality of life. Not only does the transportation system provide for the mobility of people and goods, it also influences patterns of growth and economic activity through accessibility to land. Furthermore, the performance of the system affects such public policy concerns as air quality, environmental resource consumption, social equity, smart growth, economic development, safety, and security.

Improvements in transportation has now decrease the time taken to travel from one place to another.
Now, commercial aircrafts, large ocean-going vessels, and containerisation greatly increased the movement of goods and people from one place to another.
Containerisation has reduced the time and cost of moving goods over long distances. It has also simplified the transfer of goods from one mode of transportation to another since it can be easily transferred from ships to trucks.
Efficient and integrated transportation infrastructure e.g. airports,railways and highways helped facilitiate the mobility of goods and people around the world.