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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jeremy_levine (Jeremy Levine) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:02:45 -0000
RT @shana_johnson: Economic Impact of Public Transportation Investment (TRB): http://ow.ly/yQrt
What is it with Cleveland RTA lately? They win 1 award for "North America's Best Transportation System" in '07 & then think they can slack?
BigRedEO (Eric Oswald) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:02:36 -0000
What is it with Cleveland RTA lately? They win 1 award for "North America's Best Transportation System" in '07 & then think they can slack?
Berkshire Hathaway buys Northern Santa Fe. Buffett betting on transportation to move America
mattceni (matt ceniceros) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:02:30 -0000
Berkshire Hathaway buys Northern Santa Fe. Buffett betting on transportation to move America
Ha! Not this time SEPTA! I have secondary transportation :-)!
eperor (Shawn Dorman) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:00:51 -0000
Ha! Not this time SEPTA! I have secondary transportation :-)!
: Septa: A union from the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA), a regional public authori.. http://tinyurl.com/ybltp3q
jitefaith (socializar) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:59:59 -0000
: Septa: A union from the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA), a regional public authori.. http://tinyurl.com/ybltp3q
See what happens when @cthagod is no longer on morning radio?!! The city goes BUCKWILD & shuts down all public transportation!!
PowerPublicist (Warren A. Thomas) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:59:28 -0000
See what happens when @cthagod is no longer on morning radio?!! The city goes BUCKWILD & shuts down all public transportation!!

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