What is Transportation

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What is Transportation?

• Transportation is the process by which
  passengers or goods are moved or delivered from
  one place to another.

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Transportation systems can be divided into four
types and their subtypes.
Land
Air
Water
Space
Fixed
Lighter-than-air
Inland
Manned
Random
Heavier-than-air
Oceanic
Unmanned
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Land
Systems that move goods and people from one place
to another on earth.

Random Routes cars, buses, motorcycles
Fixed Routes trains, elevators, pipelines
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Air

• Lifting passengers and/or cargo into the air in
  order to move from place to place.

Lighter-than-air dirigibles, zeppelins, hot-air
balloons
Heavier-than-air airplanes, helicopters, jets

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Water

• The use of water to support the vessel in the
  transport of people or goods.

Oceanic (oceans/bays) oil tankers, submarines,
merchant ships
Inland (lakes/rivers) canoes, flat bottom boats
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Space

• Systems that move people and goods outside the
  earths atmosphere.

Manned space station, shuttle
Unmanned space probe, satellites
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Each transportation vehicle is made up of
subsystems. These subsystems are

• Propulsion Systems
• Suspension Systems
• Control Systems
• Guidance Systems
• Structural Systems
• Support Systems

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Vehicle Sub-Systems

• Propulsion Systems transportation systems must
  have a force to propel it from a starting point
  to its destination.
• Suspension Systems Vehicular weight is supported
  by the suspension systems. It supports the
  weight of a vehicle as it moves down a pathway.

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Vehicle Sub-Systems

• Control systems control speed and direction of a
  vehicles path. The moving of people or cargo
  from one location to another requires control.
• Guidance systems provide information concerning
  the control of the vehicle. Guidance systems can
  be simple or quite complex.

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Vehicle Sub-Systems

• Structural systems structural systems
  accommodate a vehicles cargo and form the basic
  framework of the vehicle.
• Support systems are used to maintain vehicles
  and other transportation technologies.

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