“Transport in many ways is the life-blood of a nation’s economy; without it, no interchange of goods of people would be possible. The necessity that such interchange would become as cheap, quick and safe as possible has caused increasingly dramatic developments over centuries in both transportation methods and routes; from the times when slow vulnerable Camel caravans crossed the deserts of Africa and Asia to the modern Jet planes circling the world in twenty four hours in recent times. Efficient, up-to-date transport and communications systems are inevitably essential for the smooth working and growth of the economy of a developing nation. Mass production will have little economic value if the products cannot be distributed safely and quick to potential buyers, therefore the improvement in transport and industrial development have always reacted on one another. The British industrial Revolution of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries was as much a revolution in transport as in industrial techniques; as one could not have successfully taken place without the other. The present complex system of production in highly industrialized nations is only possible because of the improvement in their means of transportation which accompanied each stage of industrial development.

The development of transportation in most parts of the world in the early nineteen century bought a social as well as commercial revolution. In Nigeria for instance; the railway networks enabled exports to be brought to the coast for shipment and imports to be transported cheaply to the hinterland. In recent times, transportation brought about a great revolution, transport are now possible to previously inaccessible areas, where great distances have to be covered speedily in remote and difficult terrains.
All these developments have not occurred evenly over the earth’s surface, since any transport network is dependent on three major influences:
 Demand for mobility.
 The physical and climatic nature of the land.
 Political considerations
Obviously, the more densely populated an area is the greater will be its demand for goods, personal mobility and for the distribution of its produce. But the environment together with climatic considerations could put restraints on the type of transport system that is economical and practical to develop. The political restraints includes the amount of money the government is willing to spend, the territorial boundaries and the importance given to transport as a means of national unification and defense. Most traffic systems in industrialized as well as developing nations represents a highly co-ordination of roads, water, rail and air transport. This means that, with the rapid expansion of the world trade over the last few decades, many problems have arisen, particularly where seaports, railway stations, commercial bus stations and airports were originally built to accommodate a much smaller volume of traffic congestion in the inner cities as well as in these terminals is very common
As transport is the life-blood of trade, so is trade the life-force of a modern nation’s economy and without an up-to-date and efficient systems of both, no country can hope to compete in the market places of the world.