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Title: Beginning and Expansion of Transport in the Human Society
Authors: Udayakanthi, T.G.D.
Keywords: Transport
Modes of the Transport
Impact of Transport
Issue Date: 2017
Publisher: The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017
Citation: Udayakanthi, T.G.D.(2017). Beginning and Expansion of Transport in the Human Society. The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, Centre for Heritage Studies,University of Kelaniya,Sri Lanka. p.53.
Abstract: Within human Social evolution, social development link with transport. Accordingly, transport means the mobilization of living and non-living goods from one place to another. The main service of a mode of transport is to carry a person, an animal or an item from one place to another. The transport expanding worldwide in line with the rapid development through modes and in various shapes is a vital achievement of human society. Accordingly, the problem of this research was to investigate how transport system has affected to the social development. The main objective of this Research was to identify the impact of the transport for social development. Other objectives of this study were to identify means of the transport and beginning and the expansion of transport. In addition this study was conducted to identify the connection between society and transport. This study was mainly based on secondary data. The data collection sources were books, newspapers, magazines and internet. The transport creates a magnificent change in human society. It influences every social institution directly. Transport is one of the main factors of the infrastructure in any country. As main means of transport, by air, water, rail, cable, pipeline and space can be identified. For that, standard routes and ways have been decided. The roads, railways, airways, waterways, canals and pipelines may be named as the established ways of transport in relation to transport infrastructure. The evolution of transport displays the biggest technological transformation of human civilization. Transportation became important to maintain personal relations and to transport the commodities needed by the people after the spreading of human settlements in various parts of the word. There is a strong link between transport and development. Transportation is an important entity in human social evolution. Every step of social development is linked with transport. Among the modes of transport, land transport can be identified as one the most important modes of transportation which affects social ,economic, political and environmental sectors. When social, economic and political influenced were being discussed, most of the time positive impacts could be noted rather than in environmental.
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