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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@randomdazzle have little data but know that transportation dpt data shows nearly 3/4 billion gallons fuel for school buses each year
rovybranon (Rovy Branon) Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:38:16 -0000
@randomdazzle have little data but know that transportation dpt data shows nearly 3/4 billion gallons fuel for school buses each year
Getting ready to head to GreenCove to participate in REALITY CHECK - visioning NE FL's future resource and transportation use.
ericjaffe (ericjaffe) Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:38:11 -0000
Getting ready to head to GreenCove to participate in REALITY CHECK - visioning NE FL's future resource and transportation use.
RT "@Veronica: I really, really, REALLY do not enjoy it when people use their cell phones as boomboxes on public transportation." I agree
iainalexander (Iain Alexander) Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:36:18 -0000
RT "@Veronica: I really, really, REALLY do not enjoy it when people use their cell phones as boomboxes on public transportation." I agree
I just sent my senators a quick email to let them know I stand with them on clean transportation! Join me at http://bit.ly/2Y0Pz8
JourneyHomeBook (Paul Burke) Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:35:55 -0000
I just sent my senators a quick email to let them know I stand with them on clean transportation! Join me at http://bit.ly/2Y0Pz8
@MashUpNicole public transportation blows- is ANY of that a coherent sentence??
MStarrett2009 (Mike Starrett ) Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:35:13 -0000
@MashUpNicole public transportation blows- is ANY of that a coherent sentence??
The strike starts Oct 30. They pay air fair round trip, transportation to and from work. Nurses go to health soucre global.com.
genacf (Gena) Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:34:27 -0000
The strike starts Oct 30. They pay air fair round trip, transportation to and from work. Nurses go to health soucre global.com.

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