COMPONENTS OF

TRANSPORTATION
SYSTEM
RURAL TRANSPORTATION
SYSTEM
ABSTRACT:
 Transportation system plays an important role in shaping urban and
rural communities, stimulating economic growth, creating healthy
communities and ensuring respect for the environment.
 The most basic means of transport is human transport: people
walking between locations and carrying things themselves.
 At the other end large – scale means of transport, including trucks,
buses, automobiles, trains, airplanes, and ships. These are
generally designed for moving people and goods quickly over long
distances with large loads.
 Rural – Poor access to transport constrains economic and social
development and contributes to poverty. Better transport services
can stimulate economic activity and social improvement, leading to
easier access and a virtuous circle that reduces poverty and
improves the lives of poor rural residents.
TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
- are a fundamental part of logistics and
planning whenever vehicles are used to move
people or items from one location to another. They
allow people to get to work on time using the local
bus or train service, and they allow airlines to tell
their customers when they can expect an airplane
to arrive at its destination.
RURAL – Only transport system
RURAL TRANSPORTATION
“Rural” means different things to different
people. To someone who lives in a big city, any town
of 50,000 people or less would seem rural. But to
someone who lives on a remote farm or in a very
small town, a city of 50,000 might be a major
destination for shopping, recreation or medical
care.*
The Western Transportation Institute (WTI) have
studied rural transportation issues for more than 15
years. In that time they have come to understand
“rural” as a context within which to understand the
common characteristics and challenges met by
travelers moving within and through rural areas:
• Long distance travel between towns and majority of
trips over 15 miles in length
• High percentage (80%) of travelers drive for
recreational reasons or trip purpose
• Two-lane highways where mobility can be easily
disrupted by an accident or a slow-moving vehicle
and where there are very few alternate routes
• Animal –vehicle collisions are common and costly
• Challenging driving conditions due to severe
weather, steep mountain grades, narrow bridges,
sharp curves, or wildlife near the roadway
• A large percentage of vehicles are tractor-trailers
• Gaps in wireless communication coverage
FUNCTION
- The purpose of a transportation system is to coordinate the
movement of people, goods and vehicles in order to utilize routes
most efficiently. When implemented, transportation systems seek to
reduce transport costs and improve delivery times through effective
timetabling and route management. Periodic re-evaluations and the
development of alternative routes allow for timely changes to the
transportation system in order to maintain efficiency.
BENEFITS
- The main benefit of implementing a transportation system
is delivery of goods and personnel to their destinations in a timely
manner. This in turn increases the efficiency of vehicle use, as the
same vehicle can be used for “multi-drop” jobs, such as bus
services or home delivery networks, far more effectively when their
routes are planned in advance rather than being generated “on the
fly.”
RURAL ROADS
AND BRIDGES
RURAL ROADS
Rural roads are defined as low traffic volume roads
located in forested and rangeland settings that serve
residential, recreational and resource management uses.
They may have been constructed to relatively low
standards with a limited budget. They may be “legacy”
roads that evolved over time to serve present uses from
their original uses as railroad grades, wagon trails or
historic logging roads. They are commonly one to two
lanes wide with natural, gravel or other surfacing. Rural
roads may be owned and/or managed by governmental or
private parties.
WHY ARE RURAL ROADS IMPORTANT?

Rural areas commonly lack public transportation

and residents depend on their private vehicles to
get them to work, school and shopping sites. Rural
roads also serve millions of recreational users every
year. In emergencies such as wildfire and flooding
events, rural roads provide the means for
emergency response and evacuation.
Many of today's local rural roads and bridges
were built in the late 1800s and early 1900s,
when overland transportation for both
passengers and freight was limited to horse
and wagon or the recently built railroad
lines. Farms were small, and farmers needed
road access to homes, schools, churches,
and markets. Technological change soon
took its toll on the rural roads and bridges.
CURRENT FUNDING
Local rural road and bridge construction and maintenance
funds are derived from highway user taxes, local property
taxes, and general-fund appropriations from the state and
federal governments. Highway user tax collections are
declining in real terms because of more fuel-efficient
vehicles, fewer miles traveled, and inflation. The levels of
state and federal general appropriations are under great
pressure from declining government revenues and large
budget deficits. Many counties are already at the
maximum level of the all-county tax levy.
RURAL FREIGHT
SYSTEM
Freight transport is the

physical process of transporting

commodities and merchandise

MODES OF SHIPMENT
• Ground
• Ship
• Air
• Intermodal
ADVANTAGES
• EFFICIENCY
• GLOBAL ECONOMIC ENGINE
• LOW ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
• ECONOMIC GROWTH
 Basic determinants of freight costs

• mode of transport
• distance / destination
• weight and volume
• value
• the type of contract you have with the freight
forwarder
Additional freight forwarding charges
Loads that require special handling of any sort will
usually attract an extra charge.
• dangerous goods
• perishable goods and live animals
• outsize goods that don't fit in standard containers
• other irregular goods, eg a load that can't have anything
stacked on top of it, or goods that require a special
crane for loading
DIFFERENT TYPES
OF
TRANSPORTATION
IN RURAL AREAS
JEEPNEYS
-most popular means of public transportation,
and which have become a wide spread
symbol of Philippine culture and art. Jeepneys
are non-air con vehicles servicing the
commuting public, roaming the streets. It’s
the cheapest, most common way of getting
around.
BUSES
-Buses ply longer routes to rural and
suburban destinations from major cities.
Public buses congregate at designated
terminals and pick up or drop off passengers
at specific stop points.
TRICYCLE
-Being smaller in size, they are used in short-
distance travel, and are most commonly seen
on the side streets, subdivisions, smaller
cities and towns.
MOTORCYCLCE
-used for public transport carrying at least
two passengers at the rear.
-used as public transportation especially in
areas with narrow roads, and steeper, rougher
terrain
CALESA
-A calesa is a horse-drawn carriage that used
to be around the streets, but is now mostly
ridden for tourists’ use.
KULIGLIG
-It can be used as means of transportation, as
tractor in ricefields, it can be adapt to a pump
for irrigation of farmlands and fishponds, and
can be adapt in grindstone as grinding
machine.