Transportation Method: Air transportation & UPS

Transportation is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as

1. a system or means of transporting.
2. the action of transporting or the state of being transported.
3. a large vehicle, ship, or aircraft for carrying troops or stores.
4. (transports) overwhelmingly strong emotion.
   (http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/transport?view=uk)
   

For this blog the first three definitions are of interest.


This video serves as a very good introduction to Logistics, it sees Logistics as a pipeline. "A pipeline that controls the flow of gods" (at 2:30)


Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_in_Europe) says that transportation throughout Europe can be divided into:

• Road transportation
• Rail transportation
• Air transportation and
• Water(sea and river) transportation.
  

Those transportation categories are predominant and very important for Europe.

I wanted to have a deeper look at air transportation to find out how air airfreight works. I have read an interesting article on "How Airline Freight Works" (http://science.howstuffworks.com/air-freight.htm) and I would like to summarize it in this post:

Today it is possible to transport a lot of things by air: Letters, packages, cars, horses, construction equipment and even, what I think is most impressive: Other airplanes!

This picture shows an air-freight plane that can move anything that can be bought or sold. (http://science.howstuffworks.com/air-freight.htm)

According to this article, air freight can be divided into four main categories: