Advantages of Public Transport
Transportation plays an important role to visit goods and personnel from one place to another. People prefer public and private transportation according to their need. Transportation is the good source and has the mobility of persons and goods from one place to another.There are a lot of advantages of public transport as compared to private vehicles which I will discuss in the upcoming paragraph.
There are five primary areas of transportation such as Motor vehicles, railroad transportation, air transportation, waste transportation and pipelines. The government should invest funds for maintaining the infrastructure of this transportation system. These funds may come from the state government or the city through which the system runs. There are many advantages of transportation.
There are various kinds of transportation such as water, air rail and land. The growth in economic development depends on the transportation sector. Freight trains are used all across the nation to transport the goods and materials. Passengers’ trains are used to transport people. Improved technology has usually lowered the cost of air transport. So due to increase in the income of middle group they prefer to travel by air as compared to other types of transportation. So these days everyone can enjoy the advantages of transportation.
Water transport is used by people mostly for vacation purposes; there are some companies who used water transportation to load the goods and personnel from one place to another it is important that company charge less fare according to company output.
Public transportation has a lot of advantages to the society as well as an individual. Traffic problems will reduce to some extent if more people usage of public transportation on the roads.
Secondly, more utilization of public transport means more consumption of fossils fuels and in future, due to the shortage of fossils fuels, everyone will suffer from various kinds of problems. Moreover, more utilization of public transportation reduces air pollution and makes the environment net and clean as well as solve the issues of global warming.
If the number of passengers travels in public transportation, as a result, they get an opportunity to increase their social contacts with each other.
So the government should make improvements in public transportation in this way it may be possible more people prefer to travel by public buses rather than using private cars. A government should be fixed the cost of public transportation must cheaper as compared to private cars. It promotes and inclines more people towards public transportation as compared to private cars
Disadvantages of Public Transportation
On the flip side, some people prefer private cars because they believe that public transportation is not safe because some criminal activities are reported on public buses.
Public transportation is not reliable in terms of preciseness and accuracy. People have to wait for a long time to move from one place to another. So it negatively affects the study time as well as their work. There is no proper timetable and schedule of public transportation. So it generates hurdles to their work.
Taxi is one of the popular means of transportation in metropolitan cities. Taxi considers a comfortable vehicle for transportation in overseas countries. It provides the facility of a door to door services to people. In foreign countries, people prefer taxi services because they do not wait for a long time to get public transport. Due to hectic lifestyle, a majority of people prefer to visiting on the private cars rather than local buses.
There was the survey in Malaysia it is estimated that Malaysia taxi services were lower-ranking services as compared to other countries. The behavior of the taxi drivers has tarnished the image of Malaysia. They often refuse to use a meter and charge extra rates to the public. There are only few taxi drivers who change prices based on the meter rates. Due to the bad reputation of some drivers disturbs the big companies that provide the same services. Nowadays in foreign countries, people install apps in the smartphones to trace the taxi.
There are many reasons people prefer taxi services than other types of public transportation. Passengers do not like to wait for the bus before they do the journey. Secondly, the route of the bus has totally depended on the schedule on the other hand taxi also reduces the wait time of the passengers so people demands for the taxi is rising day by day they can easily access to any destination as compared to buses. Moreover, people do not like to wait for public transportation so they choose taxi for reaching a destination.
There are many people who like to visit the private cars. First and foremost reason is that due to very busy lifestyle people like to travel on private cars because local transport consumes more time to reach a destination as compared to public buses.
On the flip side, the use of more private cars and taxi rather than local buses causes air and noise pollution which is dangerous for human beings as well animals. People suffer from breathing and skin problems due to pollution. Moreover, pollution from these vehicles pollutes the ambience. Not only have these traffic jams are also increasing day by day which is harmful to people and a lot of accidents occurred on the roads. Apart from that due to more consumption of petrol and diesel oil there is the hike in prices of petrol.
Also, there is need to bridge the gap between consumer and company output. It is essential the company who deals in the transportation of goods from one place to another (through trucks) must charge nominal prices from the consumer with this step gap will reduce between consumer and company output.