The Evolution of Transportation

The Evolution of Transportation

Introduction

Believed to be the first to use the wheel are the Sumerians in the Near East and that is what the old between 5000 and 4000 years BC, and moved to Europe and India in the fourth millennium BC, and to China in about 1200 BC. The Romans in dire need to expand and maintain the roads because of their importance in the survival and prosperity of the Romanian Empire.During the Industrial Revolution, the John Loudon McAdam in (1756-1836) designed the first highway in an interview, using cheap materials to pave the roads with soil and gravel ( paved road ), and raised the level of some of the ways a few feet of the level of the surrounding land; to allow the discharge of water from the surface.

Discussion

Finance the construction of new roads will be like from the state budget and from private sources. Now the ministry, just, prepare the appropriate document. The amount of time consumed in transportation, its discomforts and accidents, energy shortages; there are many controversies in transport. Human beings created routes for travel and transport goods from one place to another. It was only natural that those routes originate in places of high traffic density. When domesticated animals, horse, and ox, and ass formed an important element in the process of human beings. With the growth of trade, expanded and paved roads to accommodate the movement of animals. And later began to use the primitive type of vehicles (travois), which is about Asatin tied to the back of an animal, while leaving the free end of the drag on the ground.In America the railway was developed by a desire to communicate the cities of the east coast to the interior.

For some years this way only cargo transported, sometimes use horses as a driving force. The first public railway to transport passengers and cargo that worked exclusively with steam locomotives was the Liverpool-Manchester, opened in 1830. He was also directed by George Stephenson, this time with help from his son Robert Stephenson.Mobility has now acquired the status of a right, such as health or education. Both the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (article 13), as in the 1985 Schengen Agreement of the European Union, or the 1978 Spanish Constitution recognizes the right of movement having its citizens.

Government involvement was aimed at preventing unnecessary duplication of competition in the most lucrative routes, as happened in Britain, and to ensure that the railways were expanded in the best way for social and economic development of the state or country of is involved. Were also important technical, economic and even military.The commercial success, economic and technical line transformed Liverpool-Manchester railway concept, not just in Britain. Something was once seen as a means to cover short distances, especially beneficial for mining, is now considered capable of revolutionizing the long-distance transport of both passengers and freight. It was thought that anyone could, on payment of a toll, putting a train on the tracks, ...