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Movement of people and goods from one location to another

Transportation

is a science that concerns with the efficient movement of people and goods that is undertaken to accomplish objectives to complete tasks that require transfer from one location to another.

Transport


the movement of goods and people from place to place.

Service

The transport functional system consists of the following components

Physical facilities


Fleets


Operating bases and facilities


Organizations


Facility-oriented organizations


Operating-oriented organizations – carriers


Operating strategies

It is Multi-disciplinary overlapping diverse fields such as

economics; psychology; geography; city planning; public administration; political science; industrial & electrical engineering

Transportation includes

Manufacture and distribution of vehicles Production and distribution of fuelProvision of transportation services

DOTC

Department of transportation and communications

Transportation engineering is concerned with the application of scientific principles to the

planning, design; operation & management of transportation systems

RTA

Roads and traffic administration

MMDA

Metropolitan Manila Development Authority

PPA

Philippine Ports Authority

ATO

Air transportation office

It refers to the technological ways in which individual vehicles are guided on fixed facilities. It can be done manual or automatic.

Control systems

Physical facilities

Streets, roads, highways, railroads, airports, sea and river ports, pipelines, canals

Fleets

Fleets of vehicles, vessels, aircraft

Involved in planning, designing, constructing, maintaining and operating fixed facilities.

Facility-oriented organizations

Facility-oriented organizations such as

DOTC, RTA, MMDA, DPWH, PPA, ATO, Private land developers

Objectives/Motivations of transport investment

Military/Political, Economic

Transport constraints by public policy

Environmental impact

Modes of transportation are distinguished by

Physical characteristics, organizational characteristics, other schemes.

Transportation types

Land, air, water, pipelines, cable and belt systems

cost of getting to and from the mode

Accessibility

speed or travel time

Mobility

measure of the total amount of transportation per unit of time

Productivity

Transportation costs

Capital, operating costs