Question

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We use many items in our daily life. From toothpaste to our bed tea, milk, clothes, soaps, food items, etc., are required every day. All these can be purchased from the market. Have you ever thought as to how these items are brought from the site of production? All the production is meant for consumption. From the fields and factory, the produce is brought to the place from where consumers purchase it. It is the transportation of these items from the site of their production to the market which make them available to the consumer. We not only use material things, like fruits, vegetables, books, clothes, etc., but also use ideas, views and messages in our daily life. Do you know we exchange our views, ideas and messages from one place to another or one individual to another while communicating with the help of various means? The use of transport and communication depends upon our need to move things from place of their availability to the place of their use. Human beings use various methods to move goods, commodities, ideas from one place to another.

1. Explain the utility of transportation.
2. Define the term 'Communication'.
3. Differentiate between Transport and Communication. 

Answer 1

1. The purpose of transportation is to offer a facility or service for the movement of people and goods from one location to another.
2. Exchange of thoughts, opinions, and messages between people.

3. Transport	Communication
   Movement of people and/or goods between locations.	From the source to the destination, information is transmitted.
   Time consuming and expensive	Instant transfer and secrecy maintained.
   Means - Airways, Roadways, Railways, Waterways.	Means - Personal communication - Let- ters/Telephone Mass communication.