1. Please Find your packet on the desk
Take a seat, but don’t get to comfortable.
I have your seating chart ready!

2. What is it and why is it important?
Transportation
What is it and why is it important?

3. What is transportation?
What do you think?
Textbook definition – To move products or people from one place to another.
Why is transportation important?
When have you used transportation today?

4. Transportation System - Inputs
People
Capital
Knowledge
Materials
Energy
Time
Finance

5. Transportation Systems
Production
Management
Outputs – Good? Bad?
Goals?

6. Transportation Systems

7. Land Transportation Systems
Definition – All methods of transport where the vehicles travel upon or are supported by the earth.
What invention makes land transportation possible?
Where does land transportation occur?
Types of land transportation vehicles?

8. Water Transportation Systems
Why is water transportation important?
What is a waterway support system?
Harbor, Lock, Terminals
What is the difference between inland and Transocean?

9. Air Transportation Systems
History – Wright brothers, what else?
1783 – Hot air baloon over Paris, France.
Routes
How does flight occur?
Lift, weight, thrust and drag.

10. Space Transportation Systems
History – The pioneering of space travel came around the turn of the 20th century.
1926 – First liquid filled fuel rocket
1957 – Sputnik, Russian Artificial Satellite into Space
1961 – Soviet Union put a man in space
1969 – Appollo 11, Man on the Moon
What is next?

11. What is energy? What do you think?
What did you learn from science class?
What forms are there of energy?
Light
Heat
Mechanical
Chemical
Electrical
Nuclear

12. Power Power – The amount of work being done over a period of time.
Standard unit of power?
One horsepower = Energy needed to lift 33, foot in 1 minute.
Formula’s
Work = Distance (Feet) x Force (Weight)
Power= Work / Time
Horsepower =
____Work____
Time in Minutes x 33,000

13. Example
A 200 lb. weight is lifted 165 feet in one minute, how many horsepower are being developed?

14. Conclusion What is transportation? What is one horsepower?
What are the five types of transportation?
What makes land transportation possible?