What are the advances in land transportation?

Answer 1

1. people walked barefoot
2. people built simple trails and roads to make travel to frequently visited places easier
3. people invented shoes of various types to protect their feet and make it easier and safer to walk on certain surfaces
4. people began inventing various types of navigation devices to prevent getting lost
5. people domesticated animals and invented the equipment to use them for transport (e.g. saddle, chariot, wagons, carriages, sleighs, stagecoaches, omnibus)
6. people invented various machines and the infrastructure needed to use them for transportation (e.g. trains, cable cars, subways, automobiles, trucks, busses)

Answer 2

The biggest advance in civilization from transportation is that it shrunk the world. When the wheel was invented it made the transportation off people and goods easier which brought peoples closer together. Further advances; trains, planes and the automobile shrunk the world even more. It once took a family a whole day to walk the 20 miles to grandma's house and now they can zip there in a few minutes in air-conditioned comfort.

Answer 3

The energy transformer and the motor were invented, triggering the invention of the car, bus, train, taxi, etc.