1. Transportation Technology Part 1
Alright class today we are going to be introducing Transportation Technology to you. Do any of you know what Transportation Technology is? Take a guess if you don’t know.
Mr. Barber
Transportation Technology Part 1

2. What is transportation technology
Transportation Technology refers to the systems that we use to … Move people and/or freight from one location to another.
The definition of Transportation Technology Is moving people and or freight from one location to another. Can an of you give me an example of this definition and why it is considered transportation and or why it fits with this definition?

3. What are some examples of transportation systems?
Here are three main examples of transportation can anybody give any others?

4. Transportation Environments
When talking about transportation, the term environment refers to “where” the vehicle travels. There are four environments of transportation.
When you see the title of this slide what do you think of? What do you think transportation environments mean? And can you maybe give an example?
What does “where” mean to you?
The picture at the bottom of the slide shows all four environments. Can you name them?

5. Environments Land- Sea- Air- Space-
Can three students give me one example of each type of transportation for each of these?

6. There are two categories of land transportation.
Stationary
Vehicular
When it comes to land transportation there are two categories Stationary and Vehicular? What do you think that these mean and what the difference of the two are?

7. Land Transportation Cont.
Stationary refers to systems that have a permanently set path.
Vehicular refers to systems that do not have a permanently set path.
Stationary refers to systems that have a permanently set path. I have an example of that in the picture below. This is a picture of a bullet train in Japan. It is the worlds fastest train and transports people from one are to another very quickly using magnets. Can any of you give me another example of a stationary land transportation?
Vehicular refers to systems that do not have a permanently set path. The picture that I put on here for an example is a four wheeler. They can pretty much go anywhere they want and are not on a specific path. Anyone have any other examples of a vehicular type of transportation?

8. Air Tranportation
There are two categories of air transportation systems. Lighter-than-air Heavier-than-air
When it comes to air transportation there are two types. The first type is lighter than air and the second type is heavier than air. There is clearly a major difference between the two and how they work.

9. Air Transportation CONT.
Lighter-than-air refers to a vehicle that use a “lighter-than-air” gas to stay in the air.
Heavier-than-air refers to a vehicle that must create “lift” to stay in the air.
Lighter-than-air refers to a vehicle that use a “lighter-than-air” gas to stay in the air. This means that the type of transportation can be in the air and can move in the air because it is filled with a substance that is lighter than air like helium. Do you know of any more examples of this ?
Heavier-than-air refers to a vehicle that must create “lift” to stay in the air. The picture that I chose here for an example is an airplane wing because it creates lift. When I say lift to stay in the air do any of you know what I mean by that? I will give an example by blowing on the piece of paper.
This piece of paper lifts up because of something called the Bernoulli’s principle. This principle states that when wind passes over a wing of an airplane that the pressure on top will decrease and the pressure underneath the wing will increase a little bit. This will cause the airplane to become airborn.

10. Water Transportation
There are two categories of water transportation systems. Inland Oceanic
The two types of water transportation above are very similar. Can any of you tell me what you think the difference between the two are and tell me why you think that?

11. Water Transportation Cont.
Inland refers to vehicles that are designed to travel on smaller bodies of water like rivers and lakes.
Oceanic refers to vehicles that are designed to withstand the forces of the ocean.
Inland refers to vehicles that are designed to travel on smaller bodies of water like rivers and lakes.
Oceanic refers to vehicles that are designed to withstand that forces of the ocean.
Can any of you tell me how the two designs are different and what separates the two types from each other? The difference between the two is that boats that travel in the ocean are built to withstand way bigger waves and are built to sit deeper in the water. Boats that are built for inland are more for recreation and not as much for doing things like transferring thousands of goods or people over hundreds or thousands of miles.

12. There are two categories of space vehicles. Staffed Unstaffed
Space Transportation
There are two categories of space vehicles. Staffed Unstaffed
The two categories listed above for space travel are staffed and unstaffed. The two names seem self explanatory so can someone try and tell me the difference between the two and maybe give an example?

13. Space transportation cont.
“Staffed” refers to vehicles are a designed to carry people.
“Unstaffed” refers to vehicles that are not designed to carry people.
“Staffed” refers to vehicles are a designed to carry people. The picture I have above is of a spaceship that carries and is controlled by humans from the inside of the ship. Its purpose is to carry astronauts into space to collect data, fix things, etc.
“Unstaffed” refers to vehicles that are not designed to carry people. The example that I showed here is an example of unstaffed space travel because it is a satellite that orbits earth and does not carry people. This satellite is controlled from earth and helps use have things like XM radio and Google Earth. Does anybody have any questions?

14. Your Assignment Land Air Water Space
Create a chart like you see below and list the assigned number of examples of each category.
Land
Air
Water
Space
Stationary
Vehicular
Lighter-than-air
Heavier-than-air
Inland
Oceanic
Staffed
Unstaffed 5 2 3 1
This is an assignment that should be done tonight and brought in for a grade tomorrow. Make a chart and fill in the spaces with the number that is shown below for each example.