Essay On Importance Of Transport

Transport is one of the main essentials which are needed by people in today’s life. In other words tourist in order to get his destination has to travel and hence some mode of transport is necessary to make possible this travel. In fact it is necessary pre – condition of travel. In ancient times horses, horse’s carriages, boats etc were used for this purposes. This was followed by a ship. It was only in the 19th century that the mechanized transport was invented beginning with the introduction of railways, motor cars and there after the aero plane which however revolutionized transport all over the world. Development of road transport in post world war I and air transport in post World War II period were the major factors responsible and continue to be so.
Number of studies undertaken reveals that about 32 to 40% of the total long haul holiday expenditure is done on transport. The wars had direct repercussions on motor and air transport system. Because of wars some necessary innovations in motor and air transport for the war itself was brought about. There are different modes of transport as such road transport, rail transport, ocean transport, air transport.
People travel by all means of transport but mostly for longer distances they travel by air. Traveling by air had always been like an aspirational factor for the common Indians. Air – travel even a year back used to be like a distant dream to many of lower class people. An airline provides air transport services for passengers or freight, generally with a recognized operating certificate or license. Airlines lease or own their aircraft with which to supply these services and may form partnerships or alliances with other airlines for mutual benefit. Airlines vary...

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If we simply talk about numbers, to put things in perspective, a total of 390 to 400 commercial flights operate in India on a daily basis. On the contrary, the US, which has one-fourth of our population, has 40,000 flights a day. So we can easily calculate that if the US were to have our population or we had its economy, nearly 160,000 flights are needed. Today, assuming that we had at least tapped around say, one per cent of this potential, we still need 1,600 flights a day. But only numbers don’t show the scenario transparently. Firstly India does not have the minimum infrastructure to operate such a huge number of flights. Moreover, the railways being the more accessible, well networked, economical and popular mode of transport for the common Indians, Aviation never got the required facelift that it was supposed to get in this country.