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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Gustav strengthens, pummels Jamaica
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:11:00 -0400
1/83/8MIAMI | Tropical Storm Gustav whipped Jamaica with fierce rain and wind Thursday and threatened to grow back into a hurricane before striking the Cayman Islands today.No fatalities were reported in Jamaica, but the death toll continued to mount throughout Gustav's wake in Hispaniola, with Haitian officials confirming at least 51 deaths.
Off and running
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:11:00 -0400
On a historic day echoing the dreams of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy, Democrat Barack Obama accepted the Democratic presidential nomination Thursday night and promised a clean break from the "broken politics in Washington and the failed policies of George W. Bush" as he embarked on the final lap of his bid to become the nation's first black president.Speaking to an audience of more than 80,000, Obama delivered an address that was alternately outraged and uplifting, personal and political. He blasted President Bush and Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, with some of his harshest language of the campaign, painting a grim picture of economic hardship: rising unemployment, falling wages, plunging home values and rising costs for gasoline and college tuition.Addressing critics who call his rhetoric vacant, Obama pledged "to end this war in Iraq responsibly and finish the fight against al-Qaida and the Taliban in Afghanistan," vowed to wean the U.S. from Middle Eastern oil in a decade, and cut taxes "for 95 percent of all working families," and he said he'd pay for it all in the budget.
FAA open to stretching deadline for terminal grant
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:06:00 -0400
The Federal Aviation Administration could give Horry County a helping hand in expanding the passenger terminal at Myrtle Beach International Airport by extending the deadline for part of a federal grant application, a county consultant said.Scott Seritt, manager of the FAA's Atlanta Airports District Office, said there has been no official extension request but that the agency would consider it.Rick Ott - a senior executive vice president of M.B. Kahn Construction Co., which was hired by the county to manage the expansion - said FAA staffers indicated in discussions they would allow an environmental assessment to be submitted three months after the usual March deadline.

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