ABSTRACT
The chief purpose of transport is to minimize the problem of movement between areas and settlements; recently, the demand for transport facilities has increased as a result of the growing popularity of travel as a pleasure in itself. Migration from rural to urban areas has brought serious problems to the countryside, the chief of these being a reduction in total population size and an unbalanced age-sex structure. Both have consequences for transport. Population densities are generally too low to support mass transit public transport systems. The main problems facing railways in rural areas were the existence of low traffic regions, competitive duplication, and the hostility of landowners to the construction of lines across their land with concomitant financial strains. The chief determinant of the demand for public transport is the level of car ownership in rural areas. Public transport demand is now largely a residual of private transport.
