Compare And Contrast The Development Of A Transportation System Between Africa And Asia

Africa and Asia (India) both benefit and needed a new form of a transportation system. With a new transportation system both got a faster way to transport product, livestock to and from places. Each area had some positive and negatives with building and having a railroad in their country. Characteristic of the railroads between Africa and India is overwhelming. India started building railroads and started to develop a colonial age with an efficient rail system. Africa developed from colonialism by having scattered unconnected lines, which was mainly for moving raw materials for Europe.

For Africa, they had many of their products more on the river on canoes that were much too small and slow. (page ) If and when the railroads were being built, the citizens would have to create demand for the use of the rails. This was

Cities that rose to a place where there were already only scattered villages. They would do that because railroads need a heavy traffic to make them beneficial Another needed railroads to help move things much faster but one problem they faced was to find a place in Africa to build them. (page ). Africa needs railroads to have moved their livestock, passenger, and product from villages to farms or to mines. Another reason to for railroad was to link population communities to other populated areas. The first railroad built in Africa was the Alexandria-Cairo line that was built in the 1850’s. It was part of the Red Sea route to India (page….) The railroads that were built in the tropical Africa handled the second kind of traffic. But the north and south of Africa were