Transportation Route

Use a mapping application such as Google Maps or MapQuest to map out transportation routes for a business.

Select the most efficient route using the following scenario:

You have just started working as a dispatcher for Cross-Country Transport, a new trucking and delivery service based in Cleveland, Ohio. Your first assignment is to plan a delivery of office equipment and furniture from Elkhart, Indiana (at the corner of E. Indiana Ave. and Prairie Street), to Hagerstown, Maryland (corner of Eastern Blvd. N. and Potomac Ave.). To guide your trucker, you need to know the most efficient route between the two cities.

Use your selected mapping application to find the route that is the shortest distance between the two cities.

Use the mapping application again to find the route that takes the least time.

Compare the results.

Explain which route Cross-Country should use and why it was the selected route.