Transportation of Freight Test 1

The Purpose of Transportation

• Economical Transport of Goods

• Economical Transport of passengers

• To generate revenue

• Safe economical and efficient transport of goods and passengers

The importance of transportation is growing, particularly in light of the following contemporary trends:

• Growth of Demand and reducing of cost

• Both Supply and demand

• Cost of land

• Growth of Supply

Which one is not a constraint to transportation ?

• Distance and topology

• Time

• Administrative divisions

• Demand

What is the difference between passengers and freight ?

• Freight can not be transported by car

• Passengers don't use boats

• Passengers can process information and act on it without assistance

• Freight require travel accommodation related to comfort and safety

Transportation is important but its can have a negative impacts on :

• Economics

• Environment

• Society

• History

There are three basic geographical considerations relevant to transport systems:

• Location, Complementarity, Scale

• Transportation nodes, Transportation networks, Transportation demand.

• Growth of the demand. Reduction of costs, Expansion of infrastructures.

• Historical, Social, Economics

Before the major technical transformations brought forward by the industrial revolution at the end of the 18th century, transport technology was mainly limited to

• Cars and veil boats

• Bicycles and wagons

• Harnessing animal labor for land transport and to wind for maritime transport

• People carrying cargo on their head

Which mode of transportation was last discovered ?

• Maritime

• Road

• Rail

• Air

A gateway can be defined as a __

• very useful for the military

• method used to make import and export very tedious and difficult

• terminal that operates only as a seaport.

• door that allows import and export of cargo in and out of the country.

What is the purpose of a virtual port?

• It is used as an inland logistics Centre performing the same functions as a coastal port.

• It is used as a spare port in case the coastal ports are congested

• It provides extra loading & unloading space for import/export cargo.

• It is meant only for storage and not for customs operations.