1. Transportation Systems
What is Transportation?

2. What is Transportation
Transportation-Moving products or people from one place to another.

3. Why Study Transportation
1. It affects the way you live
2. Most people take it for granted
3. It is essential in nearly everything you do
4. Think of what your life would be without it
5. You need to understand anything that impacts your life so greatly

4. Transportation pre-Modern Era
Types
Walking
Horse
Carriage
Ship
Average Distance traveled per year
Approximately 175 miles

5. Transportation in the 1800’s
New types of transportation
Steam engine (both Rail and Boat)
The Bicycle
Glider
Hot-Air Balloon
Average Distance traveled per year
Approximately 900 miles

6. Transportation in the 1900’s
New types of transportation
Automobile
Elevator/Escalator
Airplane
Space Shuttle
Average Distance traveled per year
Approximately miles

7. Technological System
INPUTS
PROCESSES
OUTPUTS
FEEDBACK

8. Transportation System Inputs
People- Provide the skills and knowledge to operate these systems
Capital- Buildings, vehicles, roads, computers are all examples of capital
Knowledge-Brought into the system by people
Materials- Solids, liquids, and gases

9. Transportation System Inputs
Energy- Human power, animal power, wind, solar, natural gas, and petroleum
Time- How long does it take to get from point A to point B
Finance-Money, most modes of transportation cost money, except for walking.

10. Transportation Processes
In the world of transportation, the process factor comes simply as management.
Traffic Control
Airspace control
Engineering and Planning

11. Transportation Outputs
Output is the end result, this is the ability of the given transportation system to get the product or person from point A to point B successfully
Unintended Outputs
Some outputs happen from improper planning, pollution is one of those unintended outputs.

12. Transportation Feedback
Consumers usually push feedback upon the provider of transportation.
In the past year mass transportation such as Busses and Subways have almost doubled in use. In turn the local agencies have been forced to provide more busses and more routes for those busses.

13. Bookwork Test Your Knowledge
Page 13-14
Questions 1-7
All bookwork has to be done on a separate piece of paper.