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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Kansas City Star: Local News

Funkhouser urges quicker action on closed Northland bridge
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:06:00 -0500
Frustrated over the length of time it will take to replace the Rush Creek Bridge on Barry Road, Kansas City Mayor Mark Funkhouser on Friday called on the city to speed up the project.
Authorities charge man who allegedly killed KC bank guard
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:17:00 -0500
Federal prosecutors on Thursday charged a man in connection with a bungled bank robbery in Kansas City two years ago that left a 70-year-old security guard dead.
Four KC homicides lead to deadliest month in a decade
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:25:00 -0500
Four homicides recorded in less than 24 hours — including the shooting death of a pregnant woman Wednesday — pushed Kansas City's monthly total to a level not seen this decade.
‘Bodies Revealed' form not signed by Chinese donors, Union Station says
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:17:00 -0500
With the “Bodies Revealed” exhibit in its final days here, Union Station officials now acknowledge a donation form they provided to the press months ago was not authentic.
Major discussions over major works of art
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:15:00 -0500
Patrons of the arts still exist, even in this lousy economy. Starving artists looking for a meal ticket hereabouts, hey, try knocking on doors in Mission Hills. If you don’t land a commission within a block or two, you might at least hook on as a gardener, pool boy or gigolo, which is practically the same thing, my artist friends tell me.
Two awarded Missouri Medal of Valor
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:23:00 -0500
One pulled a man from burning truck wreckage, while the other braved water breaking over his boat in 6-foot waves to save a woman from drowning.

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ColumbiaTribune.com - News

Body turns up on farm in county
By the Tribune’s staff Boone County sheriff’s deputies arrested and charged a man with first-degree murder after discovering a body buried on his former property south of Columbia.
Teen drowns at city park
By SARA SEMELKA of the Tribune’s staff When Margaret Travis thinks of her grandson, Jared Healea, one of her favorite memories is of him as a toddler, climbing up on the bumper of his great-grandfather’s car to help work on the engine.
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By JOE MEYER of the Tribune’s staff After about six hours of deliberations, a Boone County jury recommended last night that Brian Dorsey should receive the death penalty for killing his cousin and her husband days before Christmas in 2006.

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