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Transport and Communication

CBSE · Class 12 · Geography

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Key Topics to Revise

1

Introduction to Transport

  • Transport provides network of links and carriers through which trade takes place
  • Transport is a service for carriage of persons and goods from one place to another
  • Uses humans, animals, and different kinds of vehicles
2

Land Transport

  • Most movement of goods and services takes place over land
  • Evolution: humans → animals → carts/wagons → steam engine → internal combustion engine
  • First public railway: 1825 between Stockton and Darlington, England
3

Roads and Highways

  • Road transport offers door-to-door service
  • World's total motorable road length: 15 million km
  • North America accounts for 33% of world's roads
4

Railways

  • Total world railways: 13 lakh km
  • Europe has densest rail network (4,40,000 km)
  • Belgium has highest density: 1 km railway per 6.5 sq km

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A system where several places (nodes)Movement over land surface using roadsMovement through oceansMovement through airways using aircraftMethods of transmitting information including telegraph

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