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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samuraipunch (Ken) Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:28:24 -0000
@meghin_ @paulfogle for the right price it includes a scooter transportation vehicle too!
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i seriously need to get myself together cause this public transportation crap is for the birds, i need "a car and a driver "*t howards voice
bexy718 (Tamikha Sims) Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:26:19 -0000
i seriously need to get myself together cause this public transportation crap is for the birds, i need "a car and a driver "*t howards voice
Bay Area Transportation Commission starts climate sustainability fund http://bit.ly/5TIx6A
SafeRoutesNow (SafeRoutesNow) Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:25:43 -0000
Bay Area Transportation Commission starts climate sustainability fund http://bit.ly/5TIx6A
http://bit.ly/GB4dq City Plows Still at Work; Road Damage Worries Start: To keep potholes at bay - transportation o... http://bit.ly/7VmxZ6
atlantapaving (Michael Bush) Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:24:52 -0000
http://bit.ly/GB4dq City Plows Still at Work; Road Damage Worries Start: To keep potholes at bay - transportation o... http://bit.ly/7VmxZ6
Hey Wynne Transportation driver! You didn't look. I honked. Blocking traffic in a pathetic attempt at revenge was stupid.
KevinWiecek (Kevin Wiecek) Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:24:26 -0000
Hey Wynne Transportation driver! You didn't look. I honked. Blocking traffic in a pathetic attempt at revenge was stupid.

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