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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#Virtual Events Don't Reduce Transportation Energy, They Eliminate It http://bit.ly/5ctqLm RT @GreenEnergyPol
iandavmcg (Ian McGonnigal) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:41:45 -0000
#Virtual Events Don't Reduce Transportation Energy, They Eliminate It http://bit.ly/5ctqLm RT @GreenEnergyPol
Guess who's taking public transportation to work?
cnyquist (Christina Nyquist) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:33:29 -0000
Guess who's taking public transportation to work?
"Whatever happens, the mayor said, it's important that there be some form of public transportation expansion..." http://bit.ly/7meUNF
bmccall17 (Brett A McCall) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:32:15 -0000
"Whatever happens, the mayor said, it's important that there be some form of public transportation expansion..." http://bit.ly/7meUNF
@sebastiankeil the best green car for a family of four is public transportation. ;-)
betterandgreen (betterandgreen) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:31:52 -0000
@sebastiankeil the best green car for a family of four is public transportation. ;-)
RT @lancearmstrong: Who said bikes were just for transportation and exercise? http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ff2_1261805235
Ejex (Jarl Ekström) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:29:04 -0000
RT @lancearmstrong: Who said bikes were just for transportation and exercise? http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ff2_1261805235
Tuk tuk. Possibly the cutest onomatapoeic transportation on earth #tuktuktuk
HannahSung (Hannah Sung) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:27:48 -0000
Tuk tuk. Possibly the cutest onomatapoeic transportation on earth #tuktuktuk

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