Car vs. public transport

Traveling with car or with public transport

Have you ever thought about what means of transport should you choose? Every people use vehicles for transportation. Among many means of transportation, the most common ones are the buses and peoples’ private cars. Many people choose them because of their different aspects of thinking. From a general overview, these aspects are categorized into comfortableness, expensiveness and the effects tot he environment etc. Both ways of transportation has their pros and contras. These properties need to be examined in detail to be able to evaluate the most appropriate means of transportation. One of the areas that one should investigate is the comfortableness of the vehicles. People, of course, would like to use their own cars. Because, they are more comfortable than the public transportation vehicles. People feel more comfortable because there are not any people apart from themselves. They can listen to the radio according to their wish. They do not worry about whether they are standing or sitting. They can make telephone calls in their own cars. They don’t have to wait or catch the buses. When we consider this situation from this aspect, private cars are chosen for transportation. The second point we should compare is the expensiveness. Contrary to comfortableness, when we consider the expensiveness aspect, we conclude that public transportation should be chosen. In as much as, the buses hold and transport more passengers in comparison to the private cars. Thanks to their transportation capacity, energy saving and cheap cost of transportation would be possible with buses and public vehicles. Therefore, staff and personnel transport services and student transport services are performed through these vehicles. Finally, the last comparison point we should mention would be the speed and the traveling time. People got used to that cars are faster than any public transports but that is not true in every case. For instance, in rush hours buses can easily get through the traffic because there are lanes for buses in the motorway as well as in cities, while cars get stuck in the traffic jam. Furthermore, this type of vehicle is delivering ten times more people than a car, so it is more environmentally friendly than cars.As a conclusion, we can say that both kinds of means of transport has its advantages and disadvantages the decision always depends on what is good for the passenger.

Written by: Boglárka Varga , Réka Kecskeméti and Vivien Kiss