Lesson Overview

Transportation is the movement of people and goods from one place to another.  Historically, if someone needed to get somewhere they walked.  If they had to carry something heavy or go far, they walked with help from domesticated animals.  Today you can get anywhere you desire to go.  Can you name a spot on the earth that one cannot get to if given the necessary resources? 

Learning Outcomes:

Develop an understanding of and be able to select and use transportation technologies. (ITEA 18)

• Transportation plays a vital role in the operation of other technologies, such as manufacturing, construction, communication, health and safety, and agriculture (ITEA 18-J)
• Intermodalism is the use of different modes of transportation, such as highways, railways, and waterways as part of an interconnected system that can move people and goods easily from one mode to another. (ITEA 18-K)
• Transportation services and methods have led to a population that is regularly on the move (ITEA 18-L)
• The design of intelligent and non-intelligent transportation systems depends on many processes and innovative techniques (ITEA 18-M)

Getting Started

To begin this lesson, consider the process necessary to deliver a package from one part of the world to another.