Transport or transportation is the movement of people and goods from one place to another.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to transport:
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Essence of transport
- Main article: Transport
- Driving involves controlling a vehicle, usually a motor vehicle such as a truck, bus, or car. For motorcycles, bicycles and animals it is called riding.
- Shipping, transporting of goods and cargo, by land, sea, and air
- Travel, movement of people, by land, sea, and air
Types of transport
By ownership
- Private transport
- Public transport (also called public transit)
Modes and vehicles
Aviation
- Aircraft (Airplane, Plane)
- Airship
- Autogyro
- Balloon
- Blimp
- Dirigible (see Airship)
- Helicopter
- Human-powered aircraft
- Parachute (downward air transport only)
- Supersonic transport
- Zeppelin
Non-human animal-powered transport
Non-human animal power sources
Non-human animal-powered vehicles
Cable transport
- Aerial tramway
- Cable car (railway)
- Chairlift
- Detachable chairlift
- Elevator
- Paternoster
- Gondola lift
- Funicular (Inclined plane)
- List of aerial lift manufacturers
Conveyor transport
- Conveyor belt
- Escalator
- Moving sidewalk (moving walkway, travelator), including the inclined moving sidewalk (moving ramp)
Human-powered transport
- Bicycle
- Bodaboda
- Baby transport
- Buggy, cart
- Human-powered aircraft
- Ice skate
- Punt (boat)
- Rickshaw
- Rowing
- Roller skate
- Kick scooter
- Shopping cart
- Skateboard
- Snakeboard
- Unicycle
- Wheelbarrow
- Wheelchair
Hybrid transport
Military transport
Airforce transport
Army transport
- Armoured fighting vehicle
- Armoured personnel carrier
- Gun carriage
- Jeep
- Landing craft
- Mega Tank
- Mini-Tank
- German Panzer
Navy transport
Motorized road transport
Motorized off-road transport
- All-terrain vehicle
- Construction equipment
- Hovercraft
- Ice yacht
- sports-utility/four-wheel-drive vehicles
- Snowmobile
- Tank
- Tractor
- Traction engine
Pipeline transport
- Natural gas
- Oil
- Pneumatic tube
- Sewer
- Slurry
- Water
- crap Vent
Rail transport
- High-speed rail
- Low floor
- Locomotive
- Maglev train
- Monorail
- Mountain railway
- Cable car or Funicular
- Rack railway (Cog railway)
- Multiple unit
- People mover
- Personal rapid transit
- Rail transport by country
- Rail terminology
- Rail tracks
- Rapid transit (metro, underground, subway); see also List of rapid transit systems
- Train
- Tram, light rail (streetcar, trolley); see also List of light-rail transit systems
Ship transport
Space transport
Transport on the Moon and Mars
- Lunokhod
- Lunar rover (various, manned and unmanned, Moon, 1971-1973)
- MER-A (unmanned, Mars, 2004)
- MER-B (unmanned, Mars, 2004)
- Nomad rover (unmanned test vehicle, has not been in space, 1997)
- Sojourner (unmanned, Mars, 1997)
Space transport launched from the surface of the Moon
- Ascent stage of Apollo Lunar Module, manned, six times, 1969-1972 (return to Earth in the Apollo program)
Transportation systems
Networks
- Airlines
- Bridges
- Canals
- Cycleways
- Foreshoreways
- Freeways
- Greenways
- Highways
- Motorways
- Personal rapid transits
- Pipelines
- Railroads (also called railways)
- Rivers
- Roads, List of roads and highways
- Sidewalks
- Skyways
- Staircases, ladders
- Tunnels
Nodes
- Airport, Heliport, List of airports
- Air traffic control
- Bus stop (including bus station, bus depot) and tram stop
- Harbor, Seaport, List of seaports
- Metro station
- Road junction, Parking
- Spaceport
- Railway station
- Terminal station (Terminus)
- Railway platform
Subsystems
Politics
History of transport
- Main article: Timeline of transportation technology
- Domestication of the horse
- Horse-drawn vehicle
- Maritime history
- History of rail transport
- History of the automobile
- History of aviation
- Transport museums
Transport by region
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Design
- Civil engineering
- Engineering
- Highway engineering
- Transport engineering
- Transport traffic engineering
- Transportation planning
- Urban planning
Theory
- Ecotourism
- Fuel efficiency in transportation
- Locomotion - self-powered motion of a human, non-human animal or vehicle
- Logistics
- Navigation
- Queueing theory
- Tourism
- Traffic congestion
- Traffic forecasting
- Transport logistics
- Traffic psychology
- Transport economics
- Transport efficiency
- Transport finance
- Transport puzzle
- Travel behavior
- Travel class
- Urban economics
Fictional and proposed future transport
- Broomstick
- Flying car
- Flying sled (see Santa Claus)
- Interstellar travel
- Launch loop
- Magic carpet
- Skycar
- Space elevator
- Teleportation
- Transporter (Star Trek)
- Starship
Transport scholars
Leaders in transport
Transport lists
- Main article: List of transport topics
Transportation • transport museums
- List of aviation topics • • Aircraft • Manufacturers • Engines • Engine manufacturers • Weapons • By date and use
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- Aviation accidents • By airline • By location • By year
- Land transport
- Automobiles • Manufacturers • List of truck types
- List of convoy codes
- Cycles: bicycle parts
- Rail transport
- Road systems
- Nautical / Shipping technology: ships • fictional ships • sailboat types • Marinas
- Space transport: spacecraft
See also
External links
Textbooks from Wikibooks
Quotations from Wikiquote
Source texts from Wikisource
Images and media from Commons
News stories from Wikinews
- Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Berkeley
- "Friedrich List" Faculty of Transportation and Traffic Sciences, Dresden - Germany
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