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Transport Systems And Transportation Systems

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Introduction Cities are places which have huge amount of gathering of people, collection of economic activities and complex infrastructure for people which all together are supported by transport systems. Traditionally, the focus of transport system has been on passengers as cities were looked as locations of maximum human interactions with each other with intricate traffic patterns linked to commuting, commercial transactions and cultural/leisure activities. But today, cities are also place of production, consumption and distribution, due to which the focus of transport system has also got redefined. In a larger city, the complexity of transportation increases manifolds because of the modes involved, the large number of origins and destinations, the amount and variety of traffic and the possibility of interference, particularly when this complexity is not managed effectively. As quoted by Rodrigue, J-P (2013), “the most important transport problems are often related to urban areas and take place where transport systems fails to satisfy the various requirements of urban mobility because of several reasons. Productivity of any urban area is highly dependent on its transport system and also its efficiency to regulate goods, workers and consumers between multiple origins and destinations”. Objective The objective of this paper is to understand the modes of road transportation, the role of road transportation in urban areas, the role of transportation infrastructure in

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