georgia’s transportation system. how does transportation affect cost? send a document… a stamp...

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.