Impact of the Highway System in a Developing Country

The transportation of people, goods, and information is one of the crucial matters in the lives of human beings. Both developing and developed countries measure their development in respect to the reliability of their transportation, its safety, coverage, availability and the technologies used. The Ethiopian transportation system uses some of the United State transportation systems and technologies. However, the U.S. and Ethiopia transportation systems have very huge differences in terms of accessibility, technology, coverage, type and cost.

I was born and raised in developing country, Indonesia, the situation made me observed less progressive basic infrastructure such as roads, bridges, electricity, and mass transportation availability in many Indonesia’s rural regions or even cities, because I witnessed by myself during the time I lived in my hometown South Tangerang City and the village

The marker would be placed in multiple places along the Overseas Highway in the state parks that border the Overseas Highway.

The team addresses that the main purpose of the study is to address long-term inter-regional transportation problems and opportunities and to consider alternative actions to addrees these issues as part of developing an integrated, multi-modal transportation system that permits the capable movement of people and goods, and provides better economic and transportation linkages between urban growth centres in the GTA west study area (figure 1) (Transportation development strategy report, 2012). In order to finalize the purpose of the study, the project team identified the specific transportation problems and opportunities within the study area (Transportation development strategy report, 2012). They developed, assessed and evaluated a range of Area Transportation System Alternatives to address the identified issues relating to transportation, and opportunities presented within the study area (Transportation development strategy report, 2012). Lastly, the team recommended a Transportation Development Strategy based on the Area Transportation System Alternatives supported onward from the assessment (Transportation development strategy report,

Transportation plays a key role in today’s global economy. The focus of this course is on

Rich and developed countries always have many beautiful streets, roads, many big highways. Those are the main role of developing countries' economy. A lot of policies about building new streets, enlarging roads is always an important and necessary thing, because without them, trading things and products, doing business cannot be worked. Therefore, governments have to give right policies like fixing streets and roads every year, building more overpasses, applying some new laws for traveling in order to decrease congestion traffic.

Railways, as well as roads, are crucial inventions not only from the perspective of the governmental prosperity but also from the individuals' conveniences. While some people claim that the authorities should assign a budget for improvement of railways, others assert that a capital has to be allocated to roads system. In my opinion, both railroads and highways have significant advantages. Therefore, the officials should assign money in a balanced way.

Development of transport infrastructure is a very expensive process. When the Canadian government, in the 1870s, promised to build a railway from Nova Scotia to British Columbia, it took more than two years just to find a company which agreed to do it. This is what happens today when the country needs to grow the

Due to nearly constant internal and external conflict, Afghanistan’s infrastructure is in a constant state of disrepair and rebuilding. The country has limited network of paved roads, with the main artery Highway 1, circling the country. Nearly two thirds of the country’s population lives within 30 miles of the road (Sieff). Recently, the government of Afghanistan has shown an inability to maintain the roads, due mostly to inexperience and lack of funds. While some of the deterioration happens because of

By providing 39 Km of motorway, Eastlink allows citizens to travel along the eastern region and save time by bypassing 45 traffic lights. It also carries a great amount of traffic; therefore, it creates more jobs and economical boost. Eastlink created approximately 15 billion boost to the economy and 1400 employment opportunities were generated during its construction and operation.[ Greeman, A.G,Eastlink: motorway Masterpiece]

Because the economic opportunity of the nation’s populations is dependent upon efficient transport systems; which, in most cases, are dependent upon a publically-funded infrastructure; which, in turn, is dependent upon the economic strength of the populations; there exists a cyclical interdependence not unlike that which exists within most supply chains. In this sense, we can view our country in terms of a large supply chain where the economy represents the finance department, the population represents the labor, and the nation’s infrastructure is representative of the distribution network—inefficiencies in any of these areas ultimately produces inefficiencies within the other areas.

The development of every nation hinges on the effectiveness of their transportation systems. Movement of goods, services and people to and from work is made possible by transportation systems. The importance of effective transportation systems cannot be over-emphasized. A lot of countries are facing Transportation problems and my country Ghana is no exception. A trip of about 30 minutes can take about an hour or more due to traffic jams. This is seriously impacting productivity and has been a topical issue in the country. The situation is the same in Uganda where I currently work. To this end, Transportation Engineers are needed to design roads/ highways that will stand the test of time, plan effective traffic management systems to reduce travel

Infrastructure can make a country a much more livable place. This is especially true in India. When the British colonized India, they improved the quality of life by building and repairing. J.A.R. Marriott said in The English in India, “Means of communication

The objective of this paper is to understand the modes of road transportation, the role of road transportation in urban areas, the role of transportation infrastructure in

Delhi, the capital city of India, is one of the fastest growing cities in the world with a population of 13 million as reported in the Census of India Report for the year 2000. Until recently, it was perhaps the only city of its size in the world depending almost entirely on roads as the sole mode of mass transport. The total length of the road network in Delhi has increased from a mere 652 km in 1981 to 1122 km in 2001 and it is expected to grow to 1340 km in the year 2021. This increase in road length is not at par with the phenomenal growth in the number of vehicles on these roads in Delhi. The cumulative figure of registered private and government buses, the