Transportation

Transportation Question I. There are four major modes of transportation and they are: railroad, motor, air and water. 1. Railroads are usually used for long distance and large quantity of goods. Those goods could be steel and coal. The reasons why shippers use railroad as a carrier for their product because the product does not need to be someplace very quickly, the product is low value, and the cost of railroad services relatively cheap. So from here we can say that cost of railroad service is relatively low, and transit time is long. Reliability of railroad is good because since railroads use rails, bad weather would not interrupt their journey. Capability of railroads is very good, since you can ship as much product as you want. Accessibility is very low, because in order to ship your product you first have deliver goods by another transport (such as truck) to the place where the loading place is and that is disadvantage of railroads. Using railroads, security must be considered, it depends on a product you ship. If the product can be easily damaged, the security cost is high. One example would be transferring cars, since rails road tracks are not a smooth ride, goods, company, product, ship, cost, weather, very, service, because, carriers, water, railroad, one, motor, much, example, another, transportation, since, railroads, products, high, good, value, time, shipper, order, need, low, forest, deliver, customer, conditions, carrier, way, security