Questions

1. Outline four limitations of containerization. (4mks)

2. State four reasons why road transport is popular in Kenya. (4mks)

3.State four ways in which the nature of goods would influence the choice of transport. (4mks)

4. Outline four reasons why a transporter of goods from Mombassa to Nairobi may prefer rail transport to road transport. (4mks)

5.State the unit of carriage for each of the following modes of transport. (5mks) (4mks)

6. list four ways in which transport promotes growth of trade. (4mks)

7.State four reasons why road transport is popular in Kenya. (4mks)

8. Give 3 disadvantages of railway transport in Kenya.

9. List 4 disadvantages of using containers to transport goods. (4mks)

10.Explain five reasons that may account for continued use of hand carts as a mode of transport in Kenya. (12mks)

11 The oil pipeline has recently been extended from Nairobi to western Kenya. Explain five benefits that may be accounted to the country from the extension. (10mks)

12 Explain five ways in which an efficient road transport system may promote trade within a country. (10mks)

13. Discuss five factors that have hindered the expansion of railway transport in Kenya. (10mks) 5. 1999 Explain five features of an efficient transport system (8mks)

14. Explain the advantages of pipeline as a mode of transporting oil products. (12mks)

15. Outline five factors that should be considered when choosing a means of transport. (10mks)

16.Explain six advantages of containerization as a mode of transport. (10mks)

17. Discuss six factors that may discourage the use of pipeline as a means of transporting petroleum products in a country. (12mks)

18. Discuss 5 circumstances under which a trader may choose to transport goods by rail. (10mks)1. 1996 State four circumstances under which a businessman would choose to transport goods by air? (4mks)

19. Outline four reasons why a school in Kisumu may prefer to transport its sixty students to a music festival in Nairobi by train rather than by bus. (4mks)

20. Give five reasons why a manufacturing firm would be located in an area well served by good road network. (4mks)