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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The Toyota is sold and gone... an era of transportation has actually passed for me. I miss the old gray tin can already...
LepelstatCrafts (Michael Lepelstat) Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:44:39 -0000
The Toyota is sold and gone... an era of transportation has actually passed for me. I miss the old gray tin can already...
I just read an ENTIRE magazine in the time it took for my stalled train to move again. Sooo hating public transportation right now.
southern_bella (southern_bella) Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:38:21 -0000
I just read an ENTIRE magazine in the time it took for my stalled train to move again. Sooo hating public transportation right now.
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engineers_jobs (Engineers Directory) Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:35:08 -0000
SENIOR CIVIL/TRANSPORTATION ENGINEER - Chicago IL - Job Title SENIOR CIVIL/TRANSPORTATION ENGINhttp://bit.ly/5hmINV
Another cold day. How long will it last? I hate the public transportation. At least it is in time.
Red_Saendi (Sandra Eckhoff) Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:31:09 -0000
Another cold day. How long will it last? I hate the public transportation. At least it is in time.
MnDOT issues travel advisory: The Minnesota Department of Transportation advises motorists not to travel unnece.. http://bit.ly/4vJxKS
jamatravel (Travel Fun) Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:29:47 -0000
MnDOT issues travel advisory: The Minnesota Department of Transportation advises motorists not to travel unnece.. http://bit.ly/4vJxKS
Bicycling: Palm Beach County developing transportation plan for ... http://bit.ly/60Cdbr
peteraholst (Peter A. Holst, D.C.) Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:26:52 -0000
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