Difference Between Air Transport And Air Transportation

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“What would the competition between an air transportation and a rail transportation in Thailand be like in the future?”

Impossible to deny that you are not one of the user of a transportation even it is a public or a private. Nowaday, Thailand provides every mode of transportation which is a roadway, a waterway, a railway, an airway and a pipeline for freights and passengers except the pipeline. Transportation in Thailand is varied and confused, with no one can clearly means of transportation. Bus transport covers in Bangkok and long distances, motorbike dominate in rural area and short distances in a traffic congestion. In a city like Chiang Mai, Pattaya, Udon Thani and Ubon Ratchathani, is dominated by the tuk-tuk or sam-lor and three-wheeled …show more content…

For the freight, I separate into a domestic shipping and international shipping. A domestic freight shipment, the rail transportation will take place or have a higher market share than air transport because the rail network will be congested, easier to access especially in the centre of the country furthermore costs is much more lower compared with a large capacity of its. But for international freight shipment, 90 percentage of air cargo belongs to air transport, it can beat against rail transport because of the geography to clarify, mountain or river that hard to build a railway and connect to neighbor countries likes Myanmar (Burma), and the time savings of air transport is on demand mostly for just-in-time businesses. Anyway, it also depend on the type of its product, a product which is fragile, perishable and high-value is more suitable for air transport but rail transport will compete for agricultural products which is perishable by a cold storage rail that a cost reduction and it usually ships an industrial product. Not only competing with rail transport but also contend with Singapore Changi Airport, the top busiest AEC's busiest airports by cargo traffic. Next the passenger, I also divide into two parts, first in a centre of Thailand and less than 300 kilometres from Bangkok, second is the remote area where is more than 300 kilometres far from the capital. In a short distance (less than 300 kilometres from Bangkok) and the centre part of a country where the rail transport is the better choice to be in services because railway network is very dispersed than any parts, many stations, lower fare and time saving in operation likes transit or boarding period, moreover the government promotes a rail transport to be a centre of tourism in a region. In the

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