GMS 803 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Specific Weight, Gross Vehicle Weight Rating, Industrial Revolution

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 803
• Professor: Hossein Zolfagharinia

Document Summary

Transportation modes: transport modes are the means by which passengers and freight achieve mobility, they fall into one of three broad categories: land (road, rail and pipelines, water (shipping, air. Main passenger modal options: depending on over what surface they travel, 1-standard intercity, 2-expanded by the setting of high speed rail (hsr): between high density city pairs, 3-urban transit systems. 3-3 low rail transit (lrt) in lower density situations. 3-4 monorail: a monorail is a railway in which the track consists of a single rail, typically elevated. (toronto pearson international airport) A unit train, also called a block train or a trainload service, is a train in which all cars (wagons) carry the same commodity and are shipped from the same origin to the same destination, Land transportation: two major modes that the land transport system is composed of are, roads, railways.