CHAPTER 1:

FUNCTIONS
OF
TRANSPORT
 DEFINITION OF TRANSPORT
Transport is an act of movement of people, goods and
animal from the point of origin to the point of
consumption

Transport as a means for increasing human

satisfaction by the movement of goods and
passengers, so that inaccessible goods may be
moved to those points where consumers require them
or consumers may be moved to those points where
service facilities such as health care, education,
entertainment and recreation may be enjoyed.
 DEFINITION OF TRANSPORT

Transport is that part of economic activity

which is concerned with increasing
human satisfaction by changing the
geographical position of goods or people. It
may bring raw materials to places where
they can be manufactured more easily, or
finished goods to places where consumers
can make best use of them.
TRANSPORT AND ITS ROLES IN THE SOCIETY

The objective.

THE ARRIVAL
Clearly this must be a safe arrival.
Passenger and goods must be taken
to their destination in safety and
without damage.
This is the primary objective of
transport
Function of Transport

1) THE DEVELOPMENT OF CIVILIZATION

2) ECONOMIC FUNCTION

3) SOCIAL FUNCTION

4) POLITICAL FUNCTION

5) MILITARY FUNCTION
Function of Transport
1) The Development Of Civilization

)It is necessary to imagine life before the advent

of the way and the wheel.
1) The Development Of Civilization
They produced their own weapons with which to
hunt and to provide food and clothing in the form of
meat and skins. They dig their land, again for food,
and built their dwelling places with material
immediately available and with the simple tools that
they manufactured themselves.
1) The Development Of Civilization
People were by this time no longer
dependant entirely upon themselves but
collectively upon each other, specialization
improved workmanship in the form of better
clothes, better habitations, better food, and
hence an improved quality of life.
Such development is synonymous with the
development of communications and it is
necessary only to reflect on our present-day
economic system to realize the part played
by transport in the fulfillment of the
standard of living that we now expect.
2) The Economic Function
When the transportation system does not function
well, it is a source of great personal frustration and
perhaps economic loss. But when the
transportation system performs well it provides
opportunities and rewards for everyone.

Economics involves production, distribution and

consumption of goods and services. People depend
upon the natural resources to satisfy the needs of
life but due to non uniform surface of earth and
due to difference in local resources, there is a lot of
difference in standard of living in different societies.
2) The Economic Function
a) The place, time, quality and utility of goods

If goods is produced at point A and wanted

by people of another community at any
point B distant x from A, then the price of
the goods is dependent on the distance
between two centers and the system of
transportation between two points. With
improved system the goods will be made
less costly at B.
2) The Economic Function

B) Changes in location of activities

A
B
SUPPLIER

CONSUMER

K
Due to improvement in road network SUPPLIER
between B and K, the point K
becomes the supply point of product.