2. What is transportation technology Transportation Technology refers to the systems that we use to … Move people and/or freight from one location to another.
4. Transportation Environments When talking about transportation, the term environment refers to “where” the vehicle travels. There are four environments of transportation.
7. Land Transportation Cont. Stationary refers to systems that have a permanently set path. Vehicular refers to systems that have a random or changing path.
8. Air Tranportation There are two categories of air transportation systems. Lighter-than-air Heavier-than-air
9. Air Transportation CONT. Lighter-than-air refers to a vehicle that use a “lighter-than-air” gas to stay in the air. Heavier-than-air refers to a vehicle that must create “lift” to stay in the air.
11. Water Transportation Cont. Inland refers to vehicles that are designed to travel on smaller bodies of water like rivers and lakes. Oceanic refers to vehicles that are designed to withstand that forces of the ocean.
13. Space transportation cont. “Staffed” refers to vehicles are a designed to carry people. “Unstaffed” refers to vehicles that are not designed to carry people.
14. Your Assignment Create a chart like you see below and list the assigned number of examples of each category.
