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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It's funny how deciding not to tweet negative comments has made me realise how negative I am, esp. on public transport.
ptheknightsman (P the KNIGHTSMAN) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:31:10 -0000
It's funny how deciding not to tweet negative comments has made me realise how negative I am, esp. on public transport.
Solar Powered Transport System in Bologna, Italy - http://thehub.c-hab.com/C7G | theHub // Your Creativity Our Passion
CreativeHabitat (C-Hab) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:30:40 -0000
Solar Powered Transport System in Bologna, Italy - http://thehub.c-hab.com/C7G | theHub // Your Creativity Our Passion
Bus into London has completely stalled at Hillingdon. Did I anger the public transport gods?
benwerd (Ben Werdmuller) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:30:05 -0000
Bus into London has completely stalled at Hillingdon. Did I anger the public transport gods?
editors at Mode magazine get their own town cars when they work late. u bet i would work late every night just to save on transport
dfantasy (dfantasy) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:27:05 -0000
editors at Mode magazine get their own town cars when they work late. u bet i would work late every night just to save on transport
Our viewers on shoutbox seem to all be against public transport - sardines on wheels, sweaty, crowded, just some of... http://bit.ly/1M96jj
BlogtvSG (BlogtvProducers) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:26:18 -0000
Our viewers on shoutbox seem to all be against public transport - sardines on wheels, sweaty, crowded, just some of... http://bit.ly/1M96jj
london transport,just like travel west midlands,just with an accent!
Libertinenation (Blake Chadwick) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:25:50 -0000
london transport,just like travel west midlands,just with an accent!

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