Outline of transport
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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to transport:
Transport or transportation – movement of people and goods from one place to another.
Essence of transport[]
- Driving involves controlling a vehicle, usually a motor vehicle such as a truck, bus, or automobile. For motorcycles, bicycles and animals, it is called riding.
- Shipping, transporting of goods and cargo, by land, sea, and air
- Travel, movement of people, by land, sea, and air
Types of transport[]
By availability[]
- Private transport
- Public transport (public transit)
Modes and vehicles[]
Aviation[]
Aviation
- Fixed-wing aircraft
- Airship (dirigible)
- Autogyro
- Balloon
- Blimp
- Helicopter
- Human-powered aircraft
- Parachute (downward air transport only)
- Rocket
- Projectile (goods only, normally explosives) / Human cannonball
- Supersonic transport
- Zeppelin
Animal-powered transport[]
Animal-powered transport
Animals domesticated for transport[]
- Camel
- Dog
- Donkey (burro)
- Elephant
- Homing pigeon
- Horse
- Mule
- Llama
- Ox
- Pigeon (goods only)
- Reindeer
- Yak
Animal-powered vehicles[]
- Carriage
- Chariot
- Horse-drawn boat
- Sled
- Stagecoach
Cable transport[]
Cable transport
- Aerial tramway
- Cable car (railway)
- Chairlift
- Detachable chairlift
- Elevator
- Funicular (inclined plane)
- Gondola lift
- List of aerial lift manufacturers
- Paternoster lift
- chain ferry
Conveyor transport[]
Conveyor transport
- Conveyor belt
- Escalator
- Moving walkway (moving sidewalk, travelator, and the inclined moving sidewalk, a moving ramp)
Human-powered transport[]
Human-powered transport
- Baby transport
- Bicycle
- Boda-boda
- Buggy (cart)
- Filanzane
- Human-powered aircraft
- Ice skate
- Heelies
- Kick scooter
- Litter
- Punt (boat)
- Rickshaw
- Roller skates
- Shopping cart
- Skateboard
- Ski
- Snakeboard
- Swimming
- Tricycle
- Unicycle
- Walking
- Walking bus
- Watercraft rowing
- Wheelbarrow
- Wheelchair
Hybrid transport[]
- Amphibious vehicle
- Hybrid vehicle
- Moped
- Motorized bicycle
Military transport[]
Air force transport[]
- Military aircraft
Army transport[]
- Armoured fighting vehicle
- Armoured personnel carrier
- Jeep
- Landing craft
- Limbers and caissons (military)
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- Aircraft carrier
- Escort carrier
- Naval ship
- PT boat
- Submarine
- U-boat
- Torpedo boat
Ground transportation[]
Ground transportation
Motorized road transport[]
Road transport
- Automobile (car)
- Auto rickshaw
- Bus
- Midibus
- Minibus
- School bus
- Trolleybus
- Minivan
- Motorcycle
- Share taxi
- Truck
- Trucking industry in the United States
- Unimog
- Van
- Sports car
Motorized off-road transport[]
Off-road transport
- All-terrain vehicle
- Engineering vehicle
- Hovercraft
- Ice boat
- Snowmobile
- Sport utility vehicle
- Tank
- Traction engine
- Tractor
Rail transport[]
Rail transport
- Accessibility
- Glossary of rail terminology
- High-speed rail
- Locomotive
- Maglev (transport)
- Monorail
- Mountain railway
- Cable car (railway)
- Funicular
- Rack railway (cog railway)
- Multiple unit
- Diesel multiple unit
- Electric multiple unit (EMU)
- People mover
- Personal rapid transit
- Rail tracks
- Rail transport by country
- History of rail transport by country
- Rapid transit (metro, underground, subway); see also List of rapid transit systems
- Train
- Tram, light rail (streetcar, trolley); see also List of tram and light-rail transit systems
Pipeline transport[]
Pipeline transport
- Natural gas
- Petroleum
- Pneumatic tube
- Sanitary sewer
- Slurry
- Water
Ship transport[]
Ship transport
- Barge
- Boat
- Jet ski
- Jetboat
- Lifeboat (rescue)
- Lifeboat (shipboard)
- Narrowboat
- Punt (boat)
- Wherry
- Ferry
- Horse-drawn boat
- Hydrofoil
- Sailing
- Ship
- Tank ship
- Yacht
Space transport[]
Space transport
- Interplanetary spaceflight
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Space station
- Spacecraft
- Spacecraft propulsion
Transport on the Moon and Mars[]
- Lunar rover (various, manned and unmanned, Moon, 1971–1973)
- Lunokhod programme
- Nomad rover (unmanned test vehicle, has not been in space, 1997)
- Opportunity rover (MER-B – unmanned, Mars, 2004)
- Sojourner (unmanned, Mars, 1997)
- Spirit rover (MER-A – unmanned, Mars, 2004)
Space transport launched from the surface of the Moon[]
- Ascent stage of Apollo Lunar Module, manned, six times, 1969-1972 (return to Earth in the Apollo program)
Transmission[]
Transmission
- Power transmission
- Electric power transmission
- Telecommunication
Transportation systems[]
Networks[]
- Airlines
- Bridges
- Canals
- Foreshoreways
- Freeways
- Greenways
- Highways
- Motorways
- Personal rapid transit
- Pipeline transport
- Railroads (also called railways)
- Rivers
- Roads
- Cycling infrastructure
- Sidewalks
- Skyways
- Stairways, ladders
- Tunnels
Nodes[]
- Transport hub
- Airport, Heliport, List of airports
- Air traffic control
- Bus stop (including bus station, bus depot) and tram stop
- Harbor, Port
- Metro station
- Cross-platform interchange
- List of London Underground stations
- Architecture of the Paris Métro
- Junction (road), Parking
- Spaceport
- Train station
- Railway platform
Subsystems[]
- Air safety
- Containerization
- Continuous track
- Engine
- Foot
- Wheel
History of transport[]
- Aviation history
- Domestication of the horse
- Horse-drawn vehicle
- Horse transports in the Middle Ages
- History of the bicycle
- History of rail transport
- History of rapid transit
- History of the automobile
- List of transport museums
- Maritime history
Theory and design[]
- Engineering
- Civil engineering
- Highway engineering
- Traffic engineering (transportation)
- Transport engineering
- Fuel efficiency in transportation
- Intelligent transportation system
- Infrastructure
- Locomotion - self-powered motion of a human, non-human animal or vehicle
- Logistics
- Navigation
- Queueing theory
- Resource management
- Sustainable transport
- Tourism
- Ecotourism
- Traffic congestion
- Traffic psychology
- Transport economics
- Transport finance
- Transport Logistic (trade show)
- Transportation forecasting
- Transportation planning
- Travel
- Travel behavior
- Travel class
- Urban economics
- Urban planning
Fictional and proposed future transport[]
- Broomstick
- Flying car (disambiguation)
- Flying sled (see Santa Claus)
- Interstellar travel
- Launch loop
- Magic carpet
- Moller Skycar M400
- Space elevator
- Starship
- Teleportation
- Transporter (Star Trek)
Transport by region[]
- United States Department of Transportation
- Worldwide transportation infrastructure
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Transport lists[]
Transportation:
- Aviation articles:
- Aircraft • Manufacturers • Engines • Engine manufacturers • Weapons • By date and usage
- Aviation accidents and incidents: By airline • By location • By year
- History:
- Land transport:
- Automobiles: Manufacturers • Truck types • Convoy codes
- Cycles: Bicycle parts • Bicycle types • Motorcycle manufacturers
- Rail transport: Heritage railways • Tram and light-rail transit systems • Melbourne tram routes • Metro systems (subways) • London Underground stations • Closed London Underground stations • Melbourne railway stations • Closed Melbourne railway stations • Named passenger trains • UK railway stations
- Road systems:
- Roads and highways: Highways in Australia • UK motorways • Interstate Highways in the U.S. • U.S. Numbered Highways • State highways in the U.S.
- Space transport: Spacecraft
See also[]
- Index of environmental articles
- Outline of vehicles
- Journal of Transport and Land Use
- List of emerging technologies
- Taxicabs by country
- Public transport
External links[]
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Media from Wikimedia Commons
News from Wikinews
Quotations from Wikiquote
Texts from Wikisource
Textbooks from Wikibooks
Resources from Wikiversity
- Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Berkeley
- "Friedrich List" Faculty of Transportation and Traffic Sciences, Dresden - Germany
- Northwestern University Transportation Library
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