Transport or transportation is the movement of people and goods from one place to another. The term is derived from the Latin trans ("across") and portare ("to carry").

Aspects of transport

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The field of transport has several aspects: loosely they can be divided into a triad of infrastructure, vehicles, and operations. Infrastructure includes the transport networks (roads, railways, airways, waterways, canals, pipelines, etc.) that are used, as well as the nodes or terminals (such as airports, railway stations, bus stations and seaports). The vehicles generally ride on the networks, such as automobiles, bicycles, buses, trains, airplanes. The operations deal with the control of the system, such as traffic signals and ramp meters, railroad switches, air traffic control, etc, as well as policies, such as how to finance the system (for example, the use of tolls or gasoline taxes).

Broadly speaking, the design of networks are the domain of civil engineering and urban planning, the design of vehicles of mechanical engineering and specialized subfields such as nautical engineering and aerospace engineering, and the operations are usually specialized, though might appropriately belong to operations research or systems engineering.

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Lol. Amelia's having transportation issues from the city.
Randyy_Mean (Randyy) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:14:23 -0000
Lol. Amelia's having transportation issues from the city.
Oh, here it is. Exactly on time. Creepily on time. I love tempe public transportation.
queenofzan (queenofzan) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:14:05 -0000
Oh, here it is. Exactly on time. Creepily on time. I love tempe public transportation.
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Newell Rubbermaid is Hiring: Distribution and Transportation Coord... (Brodnica, POL) http://bit.ly/1Hdqi #Jobs #TweetMyJOBS
anyone else wasting their saturday because they dont have transportation?
t_kos (trevor koscevic) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:13:43 -0000
anyone else wasting their saturday because they dont have transportation?
VANOC is the same entity that is behind the 2010 Olympic transportation plan. Only silence from its press office on ticket trouble. Yikes.
bobmackin (Bob Mackin) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:12:44 -0000
VANOC is the same entity that is behind the 2010 Olympic transportation plan. Only silence from its press office on ticket trouble. Yikes.
@OGOchoCinco hey contact @busbank they can help you out. They did presidents transportation before election.
brandondud (Brandon) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:10:19 -0000
@OGOchoCinco hey contact @busbank they can help you out. They did presidents transportation before election.

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