Location Transport

can you summarize this for me please?

we have created a number of ways to move ourselves and send products all over the world.there are many kinds of transportation available.alot of people still depend on walking and using animals for transport.in time,we may all be whisked along on moving sidewalks, but right now bicycles,cars,trucks,trains,ships,planes, and pipelines are the major people and/or product movers.in some parts of the worlds,there is great dependence on the bicycle.it is the main means of transportation.millions of people use bicycles to travel to work and other places.bicycles thus create movement patterns that are high in volume but short in range,that is there are a lot of them but you can't travel far.the car has become the most commonly used form of transportation in the western world.it has both short and long range capability.in response to this invention,toads have been built over farmland,across deserts,over (and under) mountains,through forests, and over plains.the desighns of our urban places have been greatly affected by roads.some cities have built ring roads around the city to move people rapidly and avoid the congestion of the core (like Paris and Boston). this tends to keep people out of the downtown area.some interior road patterns are often desighned with curves,crescents,and dead ends, to discourage traffic from residential neighbourhoods.many people who live in quiet areas of the city don't want major roads built near them.for both short and long hauls,huge amounts of freight are moved by trucks.the eighteen wheeler on North American highways is now almost as common as the car.companies building these trucks (like those in Chantham and St.Thomas,Ontario) have become "around-the-clock" operations,in the attempt to keep up with the demand.some trucks pull two trailers,or are outfitted with more axles to carry greater loads.as rail service declines,trucking fills the gap.to accommodate the various vehicles we use,there is a wide range of road systems --- from narrow dirt lanes to complex networks of expressways.since trains can move people and huge loads long distances they are an efficient mode of transportation.the development of railway systems has been very important in the spread of setlement and growth in many countries.in Canada,transcountinental railways moved large numbers of people and great quantities of materials across the continent.this helped to open up new areas and build our nation.today,most Canadian rail traffic is freight,not passenger trains.our large cities use subways,a form of rail transport,to move millions of people daily.they work well over rather short distances where population density is high.As trucking (those eighteen wheelers) increases,rail faces high competition.ships have the ability to move great quantities long distances at low cost.this makes them the cheapest way to move bulky products like cars,wheat,or iron ore all over the globe.thousands of ships travel the world's major shipping routes daily.ship traffic occurs both on inland waterways (rivers and lakes ) and on the oceans.to shorten distances and increase traffic,several major canals were built to permit ship traffic from one ocean to another.the Panama Canal joins the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.the Suez Canal joins the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea.at any moment during a normal day in the air space abot North America,several thousand aircraft are flying.many types of aircraft carry people,mail,and cargo to all points around the globe.most of us are unware of how much we rely on pipelines.every time you get water from a drinking fountrain or flush a toilet,you use a pipeline.we use pipelines to move water,wastes,oil,gas,chemicals, and coal.foods such aas grainds (mixed with a liquid)can be pumped through pipelines.pipelines have the advantage of moving materials continously with little labour involved.the movements are direct from point to point and require little maintenance.the big problem is the cost of installation.large pipelines (up to 120 cm in diameter) move oil in huge quantities.in Canada,our largest pipeline is the Interprovincial Pipeline from Alberta to Ontario.it moves the crude at speeds averaging nearly 16 kilometres per hour.our urban areas have many pipleine patterns within them.there are networkds water,storm sewers,and sanitary sewers running under our cities.commercial enterprises supply our homes with piped natural gas. ok guys i know this is friken hard to summarize but please help me do this =).after you guys summarize this ill choose the best answer.thank you very much =].=).

Public Comments

1. no
2. Brace yourself for a pointless answer: o.O Good luck with help summarizing it, I'm too lazy to even read it, I'm really sorry. Good luck, and keep on truckin'.
3. No, thanks!
4. Basically: Over time, humans have evolved and so have their methods of moving themselves as well as goods. The way in which the evolution of movement occured directly related to population growth as well as supply and demand. Evolution in transportation is still occuring and will most likely never stop evolving.