Advantages Of Transport People

The transportation of people can be done in numerous ways. The moment a person is transported by means of any of the following transport option the person becomes a passenger or passengers of the transport mode. The passenger transport options available are

• Airlines

Transporting people over long distances in passenger palnes between cities and continents. We some times forget the passenger transport by small aircharters to remote locations i.e. to mines, doing reseacrch, to remote lodges doing game watching and adventureres going in to remote locations to film or expole nature.

• Roll on / Roll-Off (RO-RO) and Ro-Pax ferries

In South Africa the use of RO-RO or Ro-Pax vessels is unknown unless you have travelled abroad and experienced

In Europe, China, United Countries as example there trains running long distances to transport travellers between cities. In South Africa we have the well known Shozaloza Mayl that runs between Cape Town and Johannesburg / Pretoria on a daily basis to transport people.

This train offers tow classes of travel. Firstly the Tourist Class which has sleeper accommodation for the passengers. There are different options from a coupe that can accommodate two people and a compartment that can take-up to four people. During the day the coupe or compartments are suites and at night they are converted into bedrooms with both having hot and cold water. In addition both have a basin beneath a fold-up table. The second option is to travel in Economy Class that is a cheaper version where passengers have comfortable seats all with head and back rests, lots of legroom and overhead luggage facility. The dining car offers food, snack and beverage option to purchase. Figure: Shozaloza Meyl travelling through South

Johannesburg to Cape Town or Durban to Cape Town and even Durban To Joahnnesburg, the use of long distance bus transport has been a regular mode of transport. The advantage of bus transport is that it is much cheaper than airtransport. Today we see many students, elderly people and poor people using long distance bus transport to travel between cities.

We have many companies in South Africa offering this service as example: Inter Cape, Translux, City-to-City, Greyhound, SA Roadlink to name a few. Figure: Long distance bus transport

The long distance bus transport is also seen in other parts of the world but not as common as in SA, as they use trains which is quicker. The advantage og long distance bus transport as they visit smaller town to colelct people.

Tour Busses: With the many viisitors to South Africa the use of busses to see monuments and attractions has been a very usefull way of transport. We often see tour busses stand infromt of monumnets waiting to transport the tourists to the next stop. We also see the local buses where torsits and local people can hop on hop off between attractions. In the mayor cities like Johannesburg and Cape Town as an example you see the red busses on their routes stopping at all the places of interest. Figure: Tour