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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@Sirthinks I would be cool with that if pvt. transportation was subsidized - is unnecessary and/or too expensive for a lot of people. #yeg
livingsanctuary (Paula Kirman) Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:34:36 -0000
@Sirthinks I would be cool with that if pvt. transportation was subsidized - is unnecessary and/or too expensive for a lot of people. #yeg
RT @Storm4Wheel: Get out the word in MD, PA, DE, NY & NJ - neighbors helping neighbors with 4WD transportation during storm - #Storm4Wheel
ctwebsites (Connecticut Websites) Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:33:50 -0000
RT @Storm4Wheel: Get out the word in MD, PA, DE, NY & NJ - neighbors helping neighbors with 4WD transportation during storm - #Storm4Wheel
@livingsanctuary Public Transportation should be abolished. They just get in the way of my PRIVATE TRANSPORTATION #yeg
Sirthinks (John Winslow) Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:33:11 -0000
@livingsanctuary Public Transportation should be abolished. They just get in the way of my PRIVATE TRANSPORTATION #yeg
Malls are closing and even Public Transportation is shut down. They weren't kidding when they said not to go outside!
wendystewart (wendystewart) Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:33:02 -0000
Malls are closing and even Public Transportation is shut down. They weren't kidding when they said not to go outside!
Get out the word in MD, PA, DE, NY & NJ - neighbors helping neighbors with 4WD transportation during storm - #Storm4Wheel
Storm4Wheel (Tim Tracey) Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:32:50 -0000
Get out the word in MD, PA, DE, NY & NJ - neighbors helping neighbors with 4WD transportation during storm - #Storm4Wheel
@numberjohnny5 Isn't that the best?? I took public transportation to go out after the date and people looked at me with angst for smiling.
senor_mc (Señor Marc Carter) Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:31:24 -0000
@numberjohnny5 Isn't that the best?? I took public transportation to go out after the date and people looked at me with angst for smiling.

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