Modes of transportation

Transportation plays an important role in human's life. It is a useful system for carrying people and diverse goods from one place to another using vehicles, roads, etc. It is trully difficult to estimate how many advantages brought by different modes of transportation. However, the advantages of transportation can be classified according to three different kinds of transport: land transport, water transport and air transport.

Land transport provides people with the convenience and lower price. Land transport comprises all kinds of transportation moving on land. The most common land transport vehicle is the automobile. Others include buses, taxis, trains, trucks, bicycles, so on. As we know, most of human's activities mainly take place on land. Taking land transport is easier for people to travel around. Nowadays, every country has improved its own infrastructure such as highways, new roads, bridges, rails,... giving good conditions for people to use. Morever, when carrying goods from one location to another (especially short distances), using means of land transport is more convenient. Supposing that a farmer wants to transport his products to the consumer, he chooses the air transport. So first he has to drive the products to the airport. After taking a flight, he again drives the products to a certain place. Then from this place, his products are delivered to the consumer. Why do not he transport his products by land transport?, it only takes him a drive to come to his consumer. And the land transport is also less cost than anything else. For example, students and workers or the commuters using bus only spend from two to three thousands VND for two turns per day. In general, taking land transport is convenient and cheap.

The second transportation giving people a lot of advantages is the water transport. Water transport is the process of transport a watercraft, such as a barge, boat, ship or sailboat, makes over a body of water such as a sea, ocean, lake or river. It is a highly effective method of trasporting especially for large, heavy shipments. A ship's tonnage can reach thirty thousand tons, so it is no problem to move some bulky goods. Besides, as we know two third of our earth is sea and ocean, as a result, it is said that water trasport can bring many countries together. In fact, people can travel around the world by using a boat and products can be moved all over the world too.

Finally, the third transportation supplying people advantages is the air transport. Air transport includes public flights, private jets and even helicopter tours. Air transport is the most modern means and the second fastest method of transportation, after the rocket. A commercial jet indeed can reach up to 875 kilometres per hour, faster than many times when comparing with the speed of a boat or a motorcycle. In condition, aviation is able to quickly transport a huge amount of people and goods over long distances. Who estimates that up to 500000 people are on plane at anytime. Morever transporting by air is considered as the safest means (with the lowest accident rate). Accoding to a survey in 2008, 879 people died from airplane crashes while 1,3 million people died from car accidents worldwide. In short, air transport providing people with the highest speed as well as the safe.

Transportation is really helpfull for people. For instance, land transport gives us the convenience. Water transport solve our worry in carrying bulky shipments. And air transport give us speed. They are only some of the benefits brought by transportation. In the future, I believe that means of transportation can be farther developed and serve better for human's life.