Transport or transportation is the movement of people and goods from one location to another. The document provides 10 examples of different modes of transportation including walking, skateboarding, bicycling, school buses, trucks, railroads, airplanes, beds on wheels in hospitals, personal vehicles and maritime transport. Transportation plays an important role in delivering people and goods all over the world in a fast and efficient manner.
3. Example 1: Walking
Walking is a form of simple transport. Walking helps to move the body
from one place to another.
4. Example 2: Skateboards
Skateboarding can help to move the body from one place to another.
However, there must be a human helper to push the board along in order
for it to move in one specific direction.
5. Example 3: Bicycling
The wheels on a bicycle helps the human operator to move faster than
walking or skate boarding. In addition, the human can transport
materials (like a large bag) while riding.
6. Example 4: School Bus
Children are transported every school day to and from school by a school
bus or other types of transportation.
8. Example 6: Railroads
Many people rely on the transit train systems to move them from city to
city. New York City has one of the largest subway train systems in the
United States.
9. Example 7: Airplanes
Airplanes allow movement of people and goods from country to
country. This is one of the most complex types of transport.
10. Example 8: Human Powered Transport
Beds with wheels help doctors and nurses to transport or move their
patients from room to room in a hospital.
11. Example 9: Highway Transport
Many people rely on their personal vehicles to take them from one place
to another. Others may rely on a city’s transit system instead.
12. Example 10: Maritime Transport
Transport by water was once more popularly used than that of air planes. It is
still considered to be a great form of transportation for many companies with
large amounts of goods to move from one country to another.
