Transport

Transport

Transportation helped to promote civilisation. Communication among countries started to expand with land travel. A good road network today enables communication and transport to progress. Cars ,coaches, buses and trains deal with passengers, whereas trucks deal with freight. Trains also carry cargo for long distance transportation. Motorcycles, mopeds and scooters are useful in day to day transportation while snowmobiles skim across ice.

Water transportation

People use boats on rivers, canals and lakes. Engine powered ships and sea going vessels travel all over the world. Cargo ships together with barges, facilitate the import and export businesses. Air transportation with big airlines and supersonic jets, links major cities and provide one of the fastest means of communication while helicopters and smaller air crafts are very useful for inter-city business travels.

History

During prehistoric times people travelled mainly on foot. Goods were transported on their backs or heads and sometimes animals were used to help in the carrying of goods. By 3000.B.C wagons and sailing vessels were invented and over the centuries it improved slowly. In the middle ages, around 1500's, great improvements were brought to both land and water transport. As a result bigger ships were built but by 1700's, the steam age started. In the 1800's engine-powered vehicles were designed, leading to a revolution in communication.

Motorcars increased during the 1900's and were important for industrialisation. Commercial airlines started to operate and people's lives changed as they travelled to the remotest part of the world, at the speed of sound.

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