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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SANTA CRUZ MISSION TODAY! All day. the ridiculous part is that it would take so much less time if we weren't taking public transportation.
maliarosemay (Malia Polsky) Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:09:05 -0000
SANTA CRUZ MISSION TODAY! All day. the ridiculous part is that it would take so much less time if we weren't taking public transportation.
DeGIS 2010: Integrating GIS Functionality into Transportation Infrastructure Decision Support Systems: A Case Study (http://is.gd/5RtKH)
DelawareGIS (DE Geo. Data Comm.) Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:08:51 -0000
DeGIS 2010: Integrating GIS Functionality into Transportation Infrastructure Decision Support Systems: A Case Study (http://is.gd/5RtKH)
is creating a series of maps to help push the USDG! http://www.charmeck.org/Departments/Transportation/Urban+Street+Design+Guidelines.htm
KatieTempleton (Katie Templeton) Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:08:49 -0000
is creating a series of maps to help push the USDG! http://www.charmeck.org/Departments/Transportation/Urban+Street+Design+Guidelines.htm
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Student Voice: No transportation, no education—the fight continues: At 7 a.m.on Tuesday, I and 15 of my f.. http://bit.ly/8tgWmV
AFCNewYork (AdvocatesforChildren) Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:06:37 -0000
Student Voice: No transportation, no education—the fight continues: At 7 a.m.on Tuesday, I and 15 of my f.. http://bit.ly/8tgWmV
RT @LENetwork: RT @SCUpstate: CNBC ranks SC workforce 6th best in US,4th for access to transportation,5th in terms of cost of doing business
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RT @LENetwork: RT @SCUpstate: CNBC ranks SC workforce 6th best in US,4th for access to transportation,5th in terms of cost of doing business

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