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Ask yourself: Are electricity, water, sewage, and gas important to you? Why?
Ask yourself: Are electricity, water, sewage, and gas important to you? Why?
While utilities are not directly an issue in transportation, they can become critically important when a company is considering operating a warehouse or establishing a corporate office.
2.5.1 Electricity
2.5.1 Electricity
Common problem : availability and reliability of electrical power, i.e. the rate of economic growth outpaces the rate of growth in electricity production = blackouts!
Disruptions happen in both developed and developing countries.
Question: Which country do you think has abundance of electrical resources?
2.5.2 Water and Sewer
2.5.2 Water and Sewer
Water
Problem: interruptions, rationing, and recurring water shortages, e.g. drought.
Populations increase - problems: leaky pipes and wastage.
Bacterial contamination? Boil before drink! How about in Singapore?
Sewer
Inadequate or overburdened sewer treatment facilities, resulting in the pollution of water tables and adjacent bodies of water, or problems with sewer backups at times of heavy rains, for example.
Sewer service is important as it can be a nuisance to have employees deal with stench or frequent clean-ups.
Municipality service when unreliable, e.g. strikes, no pickup = problem in the operation of any type of business.
2.5.3 Energy Pipelines
2.5.3 Energy Pipelines
Most easily accessible oil and gas fields are near the end of their life expectancies, energy resources now come from remote areas that are difficult to operate and from where it is difficult to ship.
Building energy pipelines: challenge, obstacles e.g. weather, natural barriers, political issues, environmental challenges, and bickering between the oil companies and the governments of the countries in which they were building.
It is growing and allows an ever-greater percentage of the energy needs of the world to no longer be transported by ships, trucks, and railroads.
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