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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RT: @Kamszz Public transportation/mta is my motivation to get my license and a car smh --->WERD!
jamaican_queen (jamaican_queen) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:36:59 -0000
RT: @Kamszz Public transportation/mta is my motivation to get my license and a car smh --->WERD!
CDN transportation minister going to announce new airport security measures @ 3pm EST
twiternair (M@ni with an I) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:34:33 -0000
CDN transportation minister going to announce new airport security measures @ 3pm EST
@wrongposture I was going to North Indiana from O'Hare and there were buses running. So there should be transportation to U of I, I guess.
mackrauss (Armin) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:32:30 -0000
@wrongposture I was going to North Indiana from O'Hare and there were buses running. So there should be transportation to U of I, I guess.
The #iCar would be hailed as the savior of transportation, even though it would be incapable of going in reverse.
ikepigott (Ike Pigott) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:31:41 -0000
The #iCar would be hailed as the savior of transportation, even though it would be incapable of going in reverse.
@karinLA24 #soyoumadnow ha? #OMGFacts public transportation sucks :p
smeza85 (sergio meza) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:31:38 -0000
@karinLA24 #soyoumadnow ha? #OMGFacts public transportation sucks :p
One Person Future Transportation Cassette Vehicle | Tuvie – Industrial Design and Future Technology http://ow.ly/SlND @mlomb
noxhanti (Noxi) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:30:40 -0000
One Person Future Transportation Cassette Vehicle | Tuvie – Industrial Design and Future Technology http://ow.ly/SlND @mlomb

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