Interstate Hwy
- national highway system established by the federal government in 1950’s.
Interstate Highway System
Who is the airport named for?
What is William B. Hartsfield and Maynard Jackson?
Name 2 advantages for local folks living near a port.
What is opportunities for jobs, roads well maintained, more travel means more money spent in the area.
What are some advantages to using a train versus a truck?
What is fast, few people needed to run the train, hold more cargo?
What does transportation help with?
World Trade, boost economy, travel
How does the Interstate Hwy System aid tourism in Georgia?
What is tourist travel from the airport throughout Georgia as well as just use the interstates to travel to/through Georgia spending money as they go!
Which of these would be LEAST likely to impact the shipment of agricultural goods into Georgia?
building two new runways at the airport
closing interstate 20
adding more lanes to interstate 75
expanding the ports
Georgia exports most of its goods through what port?
Savannah Port
What was Atlanta's name before becoming Atlanta?
What is Terminus?
What is an advantage of having an interstate access near the airport or ports?
What is quickly move imported goods throughout the state and exported goods to necessary vehicle of travel to the rest of the world.
Which transportation system moves people and goods the fastest?
Air transportation
What two interstates are directly connected the Savannah Port?
What is interstates I-95 and I-16 ?
History Question!!!- How was the railroad used against the South during the Civil War?
What is the railroad was destroyed so no goods or aid could be transported. Costly to rebuild later.
Why are Georgia’s interstates, railroads, and ports important to the state’s economy?
they move goods and people quickly, connecting Georgia to National and international markets
Name a disadvantage of the interstate hwy system.
What is traffic, pollution, decrease of habitat, often loss of homes/neighborhood.
What major airline has headquarters in Atlanta?
What is Delta?
What authority governs and runs the ports of Georgia?
What is the Georgia Ports Authority ?
History question!!-- This invention allowed the transfer of goods and people more effieciently and towns no longer had to be built next to a water source.
What is Trains?
What two interstates meet in Atlanta to form a major transportation hub?
I-75 and I-85
How do the airport, interstate, and railway work together to distribute goods?
Goods come in from airport, travel in trucks on the interstate to business or by railway then onto trucks.
Exported goods travel by rail or truck to the airport and then around the world.
What company operates most of Georgia’s freight railroads today
Norfolk Southern and CSX
Import means to ____________ goods and Export means to _________.
What is Import bring in and JExport send out.