We all use transport to get around. People use transport for different reasons.
People need to get to work (commute) and children need to get to school using transport infrastructure.
People who live in rural areas need to access urban areas for shops and services.
People use transport for leisure/tourism and for socialising.
Industry needs transport for accessing raw materials, for getting the finished product to the market and for labour to get to work.
Factories use transport to move goods and materials.
Most transport routes are built to link factories with their raw materials and customers.
People use transport to travel between settlements or within towns and cities.
Quality of life is improved for people who have good access to transport infrastructure and it also brings an increase in the value of property.
All forms of transport (road, rail, sea and air) prefer to take the easiest route between places. Ideally, this is a straight line but, when obstacles get in the way, they can take an alternative route. For example, to avoid hills, roads and rail lines can tunnel through, take a by-pass or find a valley.
The Channel Tunnel is a 50.45-kilometre (31.35 mi) rail tunnel linking Folkstone, Kent, in the United Kingdom, with Coquelles, Pas-de-Calais, near Calais in northern France, beneath the English Channel.
It is easy to think of all the problems that cars and road building cause, but have you thought about what the car does for our economy?
Britain's car manufacturing sector has a turnover of over £52 billion, making around 1.5 million passenger vehicles and 200,000 commercial vehicles each year.
Around 180,000 people are directly employed in car manufacturing in Britain, with a further 640,000 people employed in car supply, sales and servicing.
Britain is a major centre for engine manufacturing and around 3 million engines are produced in the country each year.
Recent figures suggest the amount of goods moved in Britain totals 139 billion ton per annum.
In the 2011 census, driving was the most common form of transport for commuting to work, used by 15.3 million people (57.5 per cent of the working population).
Add to this the thousands of jobs created in Britain from road construction and maintenance and the economic importance of the car cannot be ignored.