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Overview of Transportation Characteristic S
Overview of Transportation Characteristic S
TRANSPORTATION
CHARACTERISTIC
S
3. Terminals
the nodes where travel and shipment begins or ends.
the end of a railroad or other transport route, or a station at such
a point.
Examples are :
Parking lots, off street parking lots, loading blocks, bus stops ,
airports, and bus terminals.
Pipelines
Pipeline transportis the transportation of
goods or material through apipe.
Oil pipelines are made fromsteelor
plastictubes which are usually buried. The
oil is moved through the pipelines by
pumpstations along the pipeline.
A Gas Pipeline is a pipe used to transport
gas from gas wells to the processing units
and then to a distribution system. Natural
gas is directly delivered to homes or
businesses through a broad network of Gas
Pipelines.