Test: Transport And Communication - UPSC MCQ

Horses and mules were the chief beasts of burden.

Optical fibres help transmit data at a very high speed.

USA has a very long network of roads.

Human portage is still important in thickly-forested regions or the areas of extremely rugged terrain mountains where it is very difficult to construct roads.

The best mode of transporting fuel oil and water in a thickly forested area and on mountains is pipelines. It is so, because humans cannot move on rough terrains where metalled roads cannot be constructed.

HBJ pipeline has been constructed by Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) to transport gas. It is 1,750 km long and connects Hazira in Maharashtra to Bijapur in M.P. and Jagdishpur in U.P.

USA accounts for 33% of the world's total motorable road length.

It is the longest national highway in India with a length of 3,745 kilometres running from Srinagar in the north to Kanyakumari in the South. This highway connects 11 states and about 30 important cities with each other.

The longest double tracked and electrified transcontinental railway in the world is the Trans-Siberian railway.

In Europe, there are approximately 4,40,000 km of railways.