Transport

Transport is not a product you can hold — it is a service, a facility for carrying people and goods from one place to another. That movement can happen using human effort, animals, or different kinds of vehicles. The key point is that transport exists to satisfy a basic human need: the need to move.

These movements take place over three domains: land, water, and air. Land transport includes roads and railways. Water transport covers shipping and inland waterways. Air transport is the third mode. There is also a special category — pipelines — which carry materials like petroleum, natural gas, and ores in liquefied form.

Transport is an organised service industry. It is not just about vehicles. The full system includes three parts:

• Transport arteries — the routes or networks (roads, railway lines, shipping lanes, air corridors, pipelines)
• Vehicles — the carriers that actually move people and goods
• Organisation — the systems that maintain the arteries and handle loading, unloading, and delivery

Every nation develops various kinds of transport for defence purposes. Beyond defence, assured and speedy transportation — together with efficient communication — promotes cooperation and unity among scattered peoples. It binds a country together.

What is a Transport Network? …