Points are assigned both on the correctness of the answer an

Points are assigned both on the correctness of the answer and the completeness of the problem -show all givens, state all assumptions, show all calculations. 1. Transportation affects society in many ways and is frequently in the news. Find a transportation news article for a local, regional, or national source (newspaper, credible internet site, etc.). Provide a link to the article and summarize the article and explain the importance.

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Hello,

As stated I am providing you with a link to the *.Pdf file regarding Transportation and its role in society.

https://nptel.ac.in/courses/105101087/downloads/Lec-3.pdf

This is a very credible source.

Transportation is a non separable part of any society. It exhibits a very close relation to the style of life, the range and location of activities and the goods and services which will be available for consumption. Advances in transportation has made possible changes in the way of living and the way in which societies are organized and therefore have a great inuence in the development of civilizations. This chapter conveys an understanding of the importance of transportation in the modern society by presenting selected characteristics of existing transportation systems, their use and relationships to other human activities. Transportation is responsible for the development of civilizations from very old times by meeting travel requirement of people and transport requirement of goods. Such movement has changed the way people live and travel. In developed and developing nations, a large fraction of people travel daily for work,shopping and social reasons. But transport also consumes a lot of resources like time,fuel, materials and land.