TEC 201 Teaching Transportation Technology

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TEC 201Teaching Transportation Technology
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The meaning of the word Transport.

• The word transport means to carry across. It
  is borrowed from the Latin language.
• Porto in Latin means to carry.
• Trans means across.

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Transportation is a dynamic part of the American
economy

• Transportation accounts for about 20 of the
  gross national product.
• 25 of all jobs in the U.S. are related to
  transportation technology.

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Transportation Statistics

• Over 87 billion spent on goods and services
  related to the automobile
• 8 million factory sales of the automobile each
  year
• Over 91 billion spent each year on gasoline
• Over 1.8 trillion passenger miles transported by
  auto, airplane, bus, and rail.

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Negative Impacts

• 18 million auto accidents each year
• 1.8 million injuries from auto accidents
• 50,000 fatalities each year from auto accidents
• Causes 50 of all air pollution
• 42 of all energy used in US for transportation.

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Transportation is

• The physical movement of people and goods between
  points
• Interrelated to communications, production, and
  energy technologies
• Has increased the standard of living
• Has increased leisure time activities.

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The Transportation System in the United States
consists of

• 4 million miles of roads
• 120 million cars
• 200,000 miles of rail track
• 500,000 miles of oil and gas pipeline
• 30 million trucks.
• Do we need to spend more money on repairing old
  systems than on building new ones?

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History of Transportation

• Development can be traced to these four methods
  of power
• Animal Power
• Wind and Water Power
• Engine Power
• Rocket Power

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History of Transportation

• Significant innovations that help spur on the
  development of transportation
• Horse Harnesses/saddles
• Canals
• Advances in ship building
• Steam Engines
• Development of steel products
• Communications technology
• Engine designs (gasoline, diesel, turbine)

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History of Transportation

• Railroads
• Automobiles
• Paradigm Shifts and Significant Events

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Railroads

• They were especially important to the growth in
  the 19th Century. They made it possible to move
  people to the expanding West and move products to
  markets.
• Determined the location (or relocation) of many
  cities.

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Automobiles

• Have changed many lifestyles
• Led to the development of suburbs
• Led to the decline of small towns
• Have become an extension of the human body. In
  many cases, one can determine much about a person
  by their automobile.

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Paradigm Shifts and Significant Events

• Wheel was developed about 4,000 BC by Sumerians
• Chariot was introduced in Egypt in 1470 BC by
  conquering the Hykses
• 1770, Cugnot steam traction enginemajor
  milestone for the automobile
• 1776 James Watts Steam Enginewas eventually used
  for pumping water, cotton mills, saw mills,
  rolling mills
• George Washington for his inaugural in 1789 there
  were no hard surface roads

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Continued

• The first federally built highway was the
  National Road from Baltimore to Vandalia, IL
• 1783, the first hot air balloon flight took
  place
• Robert Fultons Clermont, steam powered boat,
  offered service on the Hudson River
• 1827, the first successful rail line in America,
  the Baltimore and Ohio, was chartered
• 1860, Etienne Lenoir develops internal combustion
  engine
• 1869, the last spike was driven into the
  transcontinental railroad

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Continued

• 1886, Carl Benz was credited with the worlds
  first practical motorcar
• 1893, Henry Ford build his first car
• 1897, Rudolf Diesel developed the diesel engine
• By 1900 there were over 1000 auto manufacturers
  worldwide
• 1903, Wright Brothers made first flight lasted
  12 seconds
• 1908, Model T appears

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Continued

• 1926, Goddard launches his first rocket
• 1934, Queen Mary was built weights 81,500 tons
• 1939, Igor Sikorsky invents first helicopter
• 1957, Sputnik Russian First Satellite
• 1961, Russians put first man in orbit
• 1969, U.S. lands on the moon
• 1981, first reusable space transportation vehicle
  (Space Shuttle)

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Systems Approach

• Input
• Process
• Output
• Feedback

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Transportation Systems

• Inputs Those resources needed to begin the
  system.
• People
• Capital
• Knowledge
• Materials
• Energy
• Time
• Finance

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Transportation Systems

• Processes The action part of the system. For
  example, when baking cookies, the process is the
  mixing of the ingredients. In transportation,
  process is usually the result of management.
• Production
• Management
• Action
• Movement of Cargo
• Movement of People

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Transportation Systems

• Outputs The end result or output is a result of
  the inputs and processes. The output is the
  relocation of people and cargo. Transportation
  also has unintended outputs like pollution,
  noise, etc.
• End Results
• Relocating People
• Relocating Cargo

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Transportation Systems

• Feedback Provides information on how the system
  is working.
• Monitoring
• Adjusting
• Correcting

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Transportation Systems

• Goals of a System The success of any system
  involves the achievement of desirable goals. For
  example, in commercial air transportation, the
  goal might be getting people to their destination
  on time and safely.

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Four Basic Forms (Laws)
Land
Air
Water
Space
Rail Highway Pipeline Recreational On-site
Heavier-than-air Lighter-than-air
Inland Trans-ocean
Manned Unmanned
Intermodal Transportation
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Some are overlooked

• Escalators
• Pipelines
• Elevators
• Are all forms of transportation.

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Why Study Transportation?

• Is essential in nearly everything we do
• It affects the way we live
• Without it, travel and the movement of goods
  would not be possible.