10 FACTORS THAT HAVE INFLUENCED THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TRANSPORT SECTOR IN UGANDA
Looking at the transport network distribution in Uganda , the southern half has more developed transport routes than the northern part; this is due to historical, physical and economical factors. The location of major economic resources like agricultural regions, mining centers, forestry , fishing, etc. for instance transport routes have been constructed to link areas with tourist attractions like water transport to Ssese islands, air transport to Kasese near Queen Elizabeth and Kampala-Mbarara road. Transport routes have been constructed to link industrial areas for raw-materials, labour, and manufactured goods transportation like roads linking Kampala’s Bugolobi, Kawempe and Nakawa industrial areas. The railway route was extended to northern Uganda to facilitate the marketing of cotton, tobacco, maize, millet, simsim, etc. Roads and railway have been constructed to link areas with a mineral resource like a railway line to Kasese to serve copper mines at Kirembe, road tra...