TRANSPORTATION

CLASSIFICATION
SYSTEM

CLASSIFICATION SCHEMES
URBAN TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS

Classification Schemes

Transportation can be categorized in

several ways .
They may be classified :
According to the technology they
employ.
According to the function or service
they provide .
According to who owns or responsible
for the implementation and
operation.

The definition of the transportation

system given earlier makes a
distinction between passenger and
freight transportation.
Passenger transport refers to the total
movement of passengers using inland transport
on a given network. Data are expressed in million
passenger-kilometers
which
represents
the
transport of a passenger for one kilometer.
Freight transportis the physical process of
transportingcommoditiesandmerchandisegoods
andcargo.

4 Modes of
Transportation:

Land Transportation

Roadways/ Highways: It is the basic mode of

transportation and the only mode which give door
to door service to people and goods. It plays a very
important role in the development of economy of
the country. Basic need of roads arose thousands
years back when only earthen roads were used for
transportation only.
Every highway can be a road but every road cant
be highway.
Railways: - After highway it is the second most common
mode of transportation and it is considered to be cheapest
mode among all the movement of equal and good load is
possible because of railways. It is very useful when you are
travelling long distances within a country or from one
country to another country.

 Air Transportation
Adomestic flight/ transportis a form
ofcommercial flightwithincivil aviation
where the departure and the arrival take
place in the same country.

Aninternational flight/ ttransportis a

form
ofcommercial flightwithin
civil aviationwhere
thedepartureand
the arrival take place in different
countries.

 Water Transportation
Inland waterways: - Inland waterways
were mainly used in accidents times for the
movement of people when other modes of
transportation were not yet developed. They
were used whenever seas, rivers or any
other form of water channel was available.
Nowadays it is rarely used because of the
long time it takes in order to reach from one
place to another. Mostly people use it for
recreation
purpose.
Coastal waterways:
-All waters other than
inland waters or enclosed waters, and
extending 3 nautical miles seaward.

 Ocean transport:- is a method of carrying

people, goods and etc with the means of
barges, boats, ships or sailboat over rivers,
canals, oceans, or seas. The main purpose
of travel by this mean is that it can be for
commerce, leisure/recreational, or military
purposes.

 Pipelines
Pipeline transportis the transportation of
goods or material through apipe.
Oil pipelines are made fromsteelor
plastictubes which are usually buried. The
oil is moved through the pipelines by
pumpstations along the pipeline.
A Gas Pipeline is a pipe used to transport
gas from gas wells to the processing units
and then to a distribution system. Natural
gas is directly delivered to homes or
businesses through a broad network of Gas
Pipelines.

for hire. These categories are also known, respectively

as public or private transportation , but these terms refer
to their availability to the general public and private
parties, respectively, not to their ownership.
For hire systems are classified into common and
contract carriers.
Common carriers generally offered scheduled
service and are open to all members of the public
willing to pay the posted fare.
Contract carriers are ready to provide service to the
public under individual contractual arrangements.
Mass transportation usually means forms of
transportation that move a fairly large number of people
at one time throughout a metropolitan urban/suburban
area. It usually refers to a system that includes bus,
light rail, rapid transit rail (subways and elevated lines)