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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1/2 I know I owe a lot of you some replies - those will need to wait a bit - for now, I am trying to re-imagine our transportation situation
notthatkate (Kate Harris) Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:09:14 -0000
1/2 I know I owe a lot of you some replies - those will need to wait a bit - for now, I am trying to re-imagine our transportation situation
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postjobsnow (Paul Allen) Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:06:59 -0000
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Transportation halted in Janakpur http://bit.ly/8eFhrt
ekantipur_ (ekantipur) Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:04:56 -0000
Transportation halted in Janakpur http://bit.ly/8eFhrt
@Georgiabelle08 I looked up the 594th and from what I understand transportation is dangerous enough, but choppers are fun too.
aldamario (Al D'Amario) Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:04:27 -0000
@Georgiabelle08 I looked up the 594th and from what I understand transportation is dangerous enough, but choppers are fun too.
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