transportation systems sector specific plan of the tsa: environment, challenges, & analysis
Masters in Transportation and Logistics Management.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
I. Introduction……………………………………………………………………page 3
II. Technological changes through history. ………………………………………page 3
a. From Air to propellers.
b. The jet age.
III. The future of air transportation………………………………………………page 4
IV. Conclusion. ……… …….………………………………………………….page 4
V. References. ………………………………………………………………….page 5
I. Introduction.
The purpose of transportation in a general sense is defined as the effort to overcome space, which is “shaped by a variety of human and physical and natural constraints such as distance, time, administrative divisions and topology”. These efforts can be traced back to the famous Greek myth of Icaria describing the only possibility of fleeing a city was only by air, since sea and land modes were controlled by their adversaries. The three main transportation modes were underlined since then, but the Air transportation idea, until DaVinci drawings blueprints in 1492, has been seen only as a fantasy way of travel.
Air transportation will be the mode we will explore in this short essay, as we believe it is the mode which has many more potentials since the flight of Zeppelin dirigible (II), and with the future introduction of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and the 747 Dreamlifter, the future of Air Transportation once more, reached a new milestone (III).
II. Technological changes through history.
a. From air to propellers.
The hot air balloon (1783) was the first recorded time that humans have reached and controlled their movements by air. The concept was based on the fact that hot air usually rises in the atmosphere, while cold air is drawn towards earth. The first flight where successful but the destination of the flight was determined rather by Mother Nature (direction of the wind).
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