Transportation Vehicles

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Transportation Vehicles

• S.T.E.M I

In your notebooks list all of the different types
of transportation vehicles that you know
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Definitions

• Transportation The act or an instance of
  transporting.
• Vehicle A device or structure for transporting
  persons or things

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Bicycle

• Advantages

• Disadvantages

• Cheap
• Flexible
• Nonpolluting

• Transports only one person or small articles
• Limited to short travel distances

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Car

• Advantages

• Disadvantages

• Flexible and convenient
• Provides privacy

• Transports no more than six passengers
• Causes high levels of pollution
• Road networks use arable land

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Truck

• Advantages

• Disadvantages

• Flexible way of moving freight short and medium
  distances
• Goes directly from point of origin to point of
  destination

• Not suitable for very long distances
• Causes high levels of pollution

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Bus

• Advantages

• Disadvantages

• Relatively flexible and convenient
• Carries at least 50 people
• Cheap form of urban mass transit

• Causes pollution
• Not suitable for very long distances

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Train

• Advantages

• Disadvantages

• Economical and efficient for large loads of
  freight over long distances
• Can carry hundreds of passengers
• Creates little traffic congestion
• Very safe
• Causes very little air pollution

• Not as convenient as cars
• Requires a track system that is expensive to
  build and maintain

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Subway Train

• Advantages

• Disadvantages

• Can carry hundreds of passengers
• Does not cause congestion or pollution

• Expensive to build

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Ship

• Advantages

• Disadvantages

• Can carry huge loads of freight or large number
  of passengers over long distances

• Special facilities needed for loading and
  unloading
• Can only be operated on water

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Airplane

• Advantages

• Disadvantages

• Can carry passengers and freight over long
  distances quickly
• Can pass over all types of terrain

• Expensive to operate
• Airport located away from urban centers needs
  support of other modes of transportation

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Space Shuttle

• Advantages

• Disadvantages

• Reusable form of space travel

• Extremely expensive
• Only used for scientific and technological
  experiments in space

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Questions