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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@LaKeshiaL my girl got her car..im stuck doing home work....no transportation...sorry
JayP56 (Joshua Person) Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:44:54 -0000
@LaKeshiaL my girl got her car..im stuck doing home work....no transportation...sorry
Everything is coming together for the World Snowshoe Invitational - Transportation of athletes, course(s) design and media attention!
Yeti2010 (Marc Campbell) Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:44:52 -0000
Everything is coming together for the World Snowshoe Invitational - Transportation of athletes, course(s) design and media attention!
Watchin 'Beyond #Detroit' on @klrn about history of car culture/public transportation & ways fwd. If D can get light rail, wtf #satx??
nykcsa (chuck robinson) Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:37:54 -0000
Watchin 'Beyond #Detroit' on @klrn about history of car culture/public transportation & ways fwd. If D can get light rail, wtf #satx??
A Look at Bike Fort Worth | Fort Worthology: Bike Fort Worth, the ambitious new bicycle transportation plan, will ... http://bit.ly/a4f3kW
BicycleStyle (Christa) Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:31:54 -0000
A Look at Bike Fort Worth | Fort Worthology: Bike Fort Worth, the ambitious new bicycle transportation plan, will ... http://bit.ly/a4f3kW
Beautiful work Jeff! @zingbot http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/transportation/jan-june10/detroit_02-08.html Transpo-love-baby.
leftoverleftist (Elizabeth Caplan) Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:30:59 -0000
Beautiful work Jeff! @zingbot http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/transportation/jan-june10/detroit_02-08.html Transpo-love-baby.
Washington: Snowstorm Limits Public Transportation In DC Area http://bit.ly/aQKBOo
washingtoncp (Washington CP) Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:29:17 -0000
Washington: Snowstorm Limits Public Transportation In DC Area http://bit.ly/aQKBOo

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