How Have Transport Improvements Helped Build a More Interconnected World

As each day passes, our society grows and develops because of technology. We continue to become more connected to the rest of the world because of this technology. This, however, does not change the staggering situational differences of the world. There is still uneven distribution of natural resources and unequal opportunity for people. There are many people in Asia and Africa

But now with the onset of globalization these geographical boundaries that were caging people at one place have faded and become history allowing people to move freely. Not just this with the discovery of phones these geographical barriers have been further brought down. It provides people who cannot opt for physical mobility an easy way to speak to people around the world breaking the physical barriers. As the technology is advancing more changes take place in the world geography, making humans capable enough that they are now constructing new islands in the sea, the best example is “The World”, “The Palm Islands” of Dubai. They have brought in changes in the world geography.

Of the three forms of transportation, rail has the highest fixed costs, motor carriers the greatest variable costs, and air transport, the greatest variable costs of service and logistics optimization. Starting with rail, the cost structure has the highest fixed cost components, driven by infrastructure and terminal costs. Rail is therefore the most difficult to negotiate a lower transportation cost for, as the fixed costs form an inflexible pricing structure for retail service providers. The quality of rail service varies significantly across nations and regions as well, leading to greater variability in costs when a shipment moves across national and regional boundaries. Given the highly fixed cost structure of rail systems, there is significant room for improvement from an efficiency standpoint. The use of containerization is continually adding to greater efficiencies to this mode of transport (Jennings, Holcomb, 1996).

One of the consistent themes of history has been the increasing connectedness of humankind. From the first river-valley civilizations to today’s intertwined world, one of the hallmarks of the past — and one that continues to this day — has been increased globalization. While the 20th century represented one of the greatest advancements in human interaction, it was not a wholly new event. Examples of globalization can be seen throughout history, like in the movement of pastoralists, Indian Ocean trade, and the Columbian Exchange.

Globalization and the society we know today were created by the technological improvement we have seen since the beginning of the 18th century. Globalization and the new technology is a very relevant topic to discuss, because it is important to see the positive and negative aspects of it. We are today closer than ever before you can chat or talk with a person from a different continent, which makes closer. Technology is unfortunately too easy to abuse a concrete example of that is World War 2. Would we have had a better world without it, and was it the technology that killed the Afro-American people or was it the people who killed people. The essay “Time and Distance Overcome” was written by Eula Biss and published

This case provide a idea that people must change perception, which is consumers are not the whole components of movement of goods, but the movement of goods and merchandise essential to life and economic vitality. It breaks limit of scope to discuss present threat of cargo supply chain, sources of cargo terrorists and thieves, solutions and challenges for both short term and long term from private and public sectors.

The author claims that “[once], the outward expansion was the only option” (2). However, he justifies his argument that “modern transportation

Advancements in technology have boosted our abilities to travel. It is now normal to travel large distances when before most people would have never left their home state or town. Now because of globalization we have billions of people traveling every year to different parts of the world twentyfour seven. This huge and drastic change in lifestyle is what gives globalization its edge, it has allowed boundaries to be crossed when before they were no physical ways to travel large distances. This has helped create the very integrated societies of today. One downfall is that where people roam so do their illnesses, stager in behind them.

Our world, in the 21st century is more interconnected than ever before. The world is pacing faster than ever before. Take a look at biggest events of the 21st century: extreme climate change escorted by important weather ends; death-causing tsunamis caused by huge earthquakes; unique terrorist attacks across the globe; costly wars in Iraq and Afghanistan;a terrible and unnoticed crisis in Center Africa costing millions of lives; an economic crisis threatening the stability of the international system. And many, many more. The answer lies in Why Geography Matters More than Ever; geography. Harm De Blij, author of the book explains that Americans statistically are the number one geographically illiterate country and De Blij also demonstrates

In many poor countries, their local economies can be boosted by the TNC companies as they also earn part of the profit of the company. In addition, it will create more jobs for the local population. However, most of the jobs are payed very little or are either taken over by the newly created technology.

Containerization is a system of freight transport that transports trade goods from ports to ports. This system is based on a range of steel intermodal containers (also "shipping containers").These containers are built to standardized dimensions and can be loaded and unloaded, stacked, transported efficiently over long distances, and transferred from one mode of transport to another. Thus, it provided an economic way to ship 90% of the world trade goods across the globe and as a result has benefited society in providing for a truly open market to buy and sell goods. Cebu is home to national and international corporations whose trading hub is centered in the international port (cargo

Today, container ships are used as major transport method between countries, and most of products, which are called dry cargo such as daily products, processed food, timbers and metals, are transported by container ship.

Today’s world is shrinking. Not literally of course, but the advances in technology make it easy to span thousands of miles of land and sea, so people can immediately communicate with each other. The internet has connected the world instantly, and planes make traveling from one side of the world to the other a piece of cake compared to the long, dangerous sea voyages of the past. People move and migrate constantly, all the while exchanging ideas and goods. Trade has always played an important role in human history. Whether the swapping of an apple for an orange, or $12 million dollars for a new dam, the fluid movement of goods and services from one to another is how humans have been able to receive things they might not have had

Imagine a world where geographic separation does not inhibit the social or economic mobility of people. A place where cement roads are obsolete and unnecessary and the information super highway is the only road you need to know how to navigate. Information technology becomes the glue and nails that binds our (global) society together. Development becomes a matter of installing fiber-optic wiring, cellular towers and satellite launching. World Bank projects change from road building to wire laying. Now imagine a world where there is no electricity, telephones, computers, roads or other mediums of transportation other than legs and feet. Communication exists on a face-to-face level and nothing more. An individuals’

Lastly, Friedman pointed the developing countries got a free ride in the case of the digital railroads. It is a genuine fact that the third world does absorb a great deal of knowledge under the effect of globalization. However, digesting new knowledge does not happen overnight, but a time-consuming process. While people are learning the new things, the leading countries are not waiting for the rest to