Georgia’s Transportation System
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Georgia’s Transportation System
How does Transportation affect
Cost?• Send a Document… A Stamp costs 47¢ (7-10
days) A Three-Day Delivery
is $10 Overnight Costs $50• Freight … Sent by Truck? Sent by Plane? Sent by Rail ? Taken by Cargo
Ship?
Georgia’s International Airports
World’s Busiest Every Year Since 2000
Georgia’s Transportation Air
Georgia’s Transportation –
Interstate Highways
I-95
I-75
I-20
I-85
Georgia Transportation – Deepwater Ports
Georgia Transportation – Deepwater Ports
Modern Methods
• Super Highways
• Trucks • Trains• Cargo Ships • Video
Economic Impact• Georgia’s two deep water ports – Savannah and
Brunswick• Generate over $1.8 Billion in annual income. • Provide over 81,000 jobs and pay $585 million
in taxes. • Over 90 steamship lines serve Georgia Ports. • 100 Trucking companies serve metropolitan
Georgia. • More than 25,000 Interstate truckers serve the
state. • Two major rail lines operate in Georgia • From Georgia, goods are two truckload days
from 82%• Of the industrial and 79% of the largest
consumer markets.
Georgia’s Transportation
• Located at the crossroads of north-south and east-west travel in North America, Georgia is a natural launching point from which people and products are quickly transported via air, ground and ocean among the Americas, Europe and Asia.