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
Definitions from Wiktionary
Textbooks from Wikibooks
Quotations from Wikiquote
Source texts from Wikisource
Images and media from Commons
News stories from Wikinews
Learning resources from Wikiversity- Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Berkeley
- "Friedrich List" Faculty of Transportation and Traffic Sciences, Dresden - Germany
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