Transportation

Transportation refers to movement of people and goods from one place to some other place. The modes of transport are road, rail, air, space, cable and pipeline. Industries that carry on their business of supplying transport equipments, transport facilities or transport are very essential for the economic development of the country. The field of transport can be further divided into vehicles, infrastructure and operations. Infrastructure includes the facilities made for transportation which are roads, railways, airways, waterways, canals and also installations like airports, bus stops, stations, ports etc. Vehicles are the motorized machines using these infrastructure facilities, they are automobiles, trains, buses, aero planes, trucks and people too.

Transportation has become a building block in the economic growth of a country. The backbone of the trade industry are the transportation facilities involved in it, with the increase in world trade mobility of goods and freight is carried out on a large scale.

Economic growth has always been in proportion with the increase in transport capacity of a country. With the production and consumption of goods being located at different locations a good transport service is necessary for industrial growth.