Transportation service:

The facility/activity of trasporting people or goods from one place to another is called trasportation service.
In older times animals and waterways were used. Then other means like railways and airways were developed.

Types of transportation:
1. Human operated:

• When human labour is used to transport goods or other humans it is called human operated transport.
  Although it is quite laborious it is environment friendly.
• At places like Delhi and Kolkata people us^ pedal rickshaw to transport people within city.
• Hand carts and pedal rickshaws are used in almost all parts of India to transport goods from one place to another.

2. Animal operated:

Transport of goods done for short distances using horse-cart, bullock-cart, camel-cart, etc. falls under animal operated transport.

3. Air-ways:

• Airways is used to transport goods and humans speedily especially for long distances.
• If the transport is done through aeroplanes then runways are needed for take-off and landing. However, if the transport is to be carried out for short distances or for small quantity of goods or few people, or at hostile regions then helicopters are a very good option.

4. Land transport:
(a) Railways:

• Railways are one of the fastest and cheapest forms to transport humans and goods.
• Trains run on electricity, diesel, gravitational force, magnetic force, CNG, etc.
• There are also several multiple unit (MU) trains used in transportation.
• Indian railways connect a very large number of towns and cities and hence work as the spinal cord of Indian transportation.

(b) Roadways:

• Roadways are one of the most convenient and flexible way to transport. Through this mean one can transport at own speed and time, change direction of vehicle as per need, take halt where ever one wishes and reach the destination. Such flexibility is not available in other means of fast transport. , Moreover one can also provide doorstep delivery of goods and humans.
• Buses are used to effectively transport people where as trucks are used to transport goods.
• Recently, to avoid traffic and provide faster transport to people within the city, the government has started Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS).

5. Waterways:

• Oceans, rivers, lakes and canals are some of the waterways on which ships, boats, ferries, hovercrafts, etc. move and transport goods and people.
• The goods may be transported through sea and then land and again to another part of sea in places where the sea is not present on a continuous stretch. Hovercrafts have a giant high speed fan and a balloon like structure at the bottom in which air is filled to move them. Canals are constructed across rivers and dams which serve as means of transport.
• Trade and commerce between countries is mainly done through waterways.
• Even though waterways is a slow means of transport it is widely used because of its ability to carry a variety of goods of any size and form at a much lower cost than airways.

6. Transport/transit through pipelines:

• Pipelines are a very effective means of transport for transporting gaseous and liquid products.
• Pipelines are used for transporting water, petroleum, natural gas, etc.
• They are also very useful for removal of sewage and as drainage.
• For example, pipeline has been laid to transport gas from few parts of India Oil and petroleum products are transported through pipelines in the state of Assam, Bihar, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana.