What is Transportation?
Transportation can be defined as the movement of people and goods from one place to another either by land, water or air. It is the process by which people and their products from one place to another
Local/Indigenous Means of transportation
This is the traditional means of transportation; it involves the use of the following-
- Human porterage and trekking : This involve carrying food on the head, shoulder or back. It is commonly used by those living in the forest areas or villages.
- Beasts of burden or pack animals: This is a situation where people make use of animals like horses, camel, donkeys in moving from one place to another. It is mostly used by people living in the grassland or savanna areas of Northern Nigeria.
- Canoes, calabash and rafts: These means of transportation are used in riverine areas like Bayelsa, Calabar, Lokoja etc.
Modern Means of Transportation
The three modern means of transportation involves
- Land Transportation: This is the movement of people and goods from one place to another on the land. It is divided into road and rail transport. The road transportation involves the use of buses, cars, lorries to convey goods and people from one place to another while rail transport is a locomotive which run on two metal rails. The speed and the amount of goods carried by train depend on the width of the railway gauges.
Advantages of Road transportation
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