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    Transportation is fundamental to Ethiopia's economy and society. The main types of transportation in Ethiopia are traditional methods like pack animals, roads which have expanded significantly in recent decades but road density remains low, rail which connects Addis Ababa to Djibouti, limited waterways, and air. Transportation plays important economic roles like creating jobs, promoting investment, enabling trade, and generating income. It also has social and political impacts such as maintaining stability and linking rural and urban areas.

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    Transportation is fundamental to Ethiopia's economy and society. The main types of transportation in Ethiopia are traditional methods like pack animals, roads which have expanded significantly in recent decades but road density remains low, rail which connects Addis Ababa to Djibouti, limited waterways, and air. Transportation plays important economic roles like creating jobs, promoting investment, enabling trade, and generating income. It also has social and political impacts such as maintaining stability and linking rural and urban areas.

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    Transportation is fundamental to Ethiopia's economy and society. The main types of transportation in Ethiopia are traditional methods like pack animals, roads which have expanded significantly in recent decades but road density remains low, rail which connects Addis Ababa to Djibouti, limited waterways, and air. Transportation plays important economic roles like creating jobs, promoting investment, enabling trade, and generating income. It also has social and political impacts such as maintaining stability and linking rural and urban areas.

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    Examine types, roles and distribution of transportation infrastructure and services in


    Ethiopia.

    Transportation is a service or facility by which persons, manufactured goods, and property are
    physically carried from one location to another. Transportation is fundamental to civilization.
    Transportation, it is usually said, is the lifeline or the blood vessel of an economy.

    Types of Transportation in Ethiopia

    1. Traditional Transportation
    The usage of pack animals (donkeys, mules, horses, camel) and goods carried by
    humans. The contribution of these means of transport to the national economy is not known in
    statistical terms. In rural Ethiopia where modern transport systems are very few, it is obvious
    that they make immense contributions. Even in urban areas like Addis Ababa, modern means
    of transport has not totally done away with the traditional means.

    2. Road Transportation
    In Ethiopia road transportation is relatively a recent phenomenon. Italians basically started it
    during their period of occupation. These roads were essentially built for military movement
    purposes. In other words, they were not built for the purpose of economic integration of the
    country. Later on, with Addis Ababa growing as the political center of the country, the roads
    built in subsequent periods were constructed for administrative connections. The radial
    patterns of network development with the center being Addis Ababa, exhibits administrative
    integration rather than economic integration.
    A. Road Network: Data obtained from the Ethiopian Roads Authority showed that during
    2004/05 classified road network in Ethiopia was 37,018 km while the total road network
    increased rapidly and reached 126,773 km during 2017/18 (this includes 35,958 km rural road
    (28.3%).
    B. Road Density: The rugged terrain in Ethiopia makes road construction difficult and
    expensive. If we compare the length of roads to the total area of the country, we observe that
    it serves a small area. 1 km road serves an area of about 66 km2 . If we generously assume a
    distance 10 km on either side of a road as being accessible only about 370, 000, km2 area or
    30 percent of the country is accessible. The road density/1000 persons was 0.5 in 2004/5 that
    increased to 1.27 in 2017/18. Likewise the road density/1000square kilometer was 33.7 in
    2004/5 that improved in a way to 115.2 in 2017/18.
    C. Road Accessibility: In 2016/17, annual average distance from all-weather roads declined by
    6.5 percent from 4.6 km in 2015/16 to 4.6 km. Similarly, the proportion of area more than 5
    km from all-weather roads dropped to 33.5 percent from 31.6 percent last year. By 2019/20, it
    is envisaged to narrow the proportion of area more than 5 Km from all-weather road to 13.5
    percent.

    3. Railway
    The major advantage of rail transport is that it helps transport bulky products. For more than a
    century, Ethiopia was served by an international meter gauge railway, from Addis Ababa to
    Djibouti City in Djibouti. The railway was built from 1897–1917 and was about 781 km long
    primarily served to move export- imports for a long time. Compared to those of the developed
    countries the railway was backward. It was also a single lane track. Eventually the Ethio-
    Djibouti Railway and its decades old rolling stock was lacking spare parts and forced to
    closed down over a number of years.Recently a new railway line of 750 km length connecting
    Addis Ababa to Djibouti, was officially inaugurated in Djibouti in 2018. The Addis Ababa–
    Djibouti Railway is a new standard gauge international railway that serves as the backbone of
    the new Ethiopian National Railway Network. The other important railway is Addis Ababa
    Light Rail Transit. It is the first light rail and rapid transit in eastern and sub-Saharan Africa.
    4. Waterways
    Ethiopia being a landlocked country does not have direct access to such areas. Presently, the
    Red Sea through the port of Djibouti is very important for Ethiopia's external trade. Inland
    waterways are classified in to two i.e., rivers and lakes. Because of the nature of the
    topography over which Ethiopian rivers flow, Ethiopian rivers with the exception of Baro and
    Omo in their lower courses, cannot be used for transportation. On some of the lakes like Tana
    and Abaya there is small-scale transportation. The contribution of inland waterways to the
    Ethiopian economy is very small.

    5. Airways
    Air transport is the fastest means of transportation from one place to the other. It has
    reduced distances by minimizing the travel time. It is very essential for a country like
    Ethiopia, where the topography is difficult for communication. There is no problem of laying
    the track for airways. The problem with air transportation is that they are expensive and
    cannot be used for transporting bulky products. EAL serve some forty-five cities and towns in
    the country. The reputed Ethiopian Airlines also gives impressive international service.

    Roles of Transportation
    Transportation plays important economic, social and political roles some of which are
    indicated hereunder:
     It creates job opportunity.
     It promotes investment sector - on infrastructure development.
     Transportation plays a big role for both national and international trade.
     It serves as a source of income generation both for governments and the public.
     It contributes to the maintaining a country‟s peace, political well being and stability.
     Plays the role of linking rural areas and rural products to urban centers and helps in
     increasing and interconnecting market outlets.
     Makes big contribution to the development of tourism, entertainment, sports and
    peaceful relationship among people.

    Distribution of Transportation

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