Transport or transportation is the movement of people and goods from one place to another. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to transport:
Essence of transport[edit | edit source]
- 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[edit | edit source]
By availability[edit | edit source]
- Private transport
- Public transport (public transit)
Modes and vehicles[edit | edit source]
Aviation[edit | edit source]
- Airship (dirigible)
- Autogyro
- Balloon
- Blimp
- Helicopter
- Human-powered aircraft
- Parachute (downward air transport only)
- Rocket
- Projectile (goods only, normally explosives)
- Supersonic transport
- Zeppelin
Animal-powered transport[edit | edit source]
Animals domesticated for transport[edit | edit source]
- Camel
- Dog
- Donkey (burro)
- Elephant
- Homing pigeon
- Horse
- Mule
- Llama
- Ox
- Pigeon (goods only)
- Reindeer
- Yak
Animal-powered vehicles[edit | edit source]
Cable transport[edit | edit source]
- Aerial tramway
- Cable car (railway)
- Chairlift
- Elevator
- Funicular (inclined plane)
- Gondola lift
- List of aerial lift manufacturers
- Paternoster
Conveyor transport[edit | edit source]
- Conveyor belt
- Escalator
- Moving walkway (moving sidewalk, travelator, and the inclined moving sidewalk, a moving ramp)
Human-powered transport[edit | edit source]
- Baby transport
- Bicycle
- Boda-boda
- Buggy (cart)
- Human-powered aircraft
- Ice skate
- Kick scooter
- Punt (boat)
- Rickshaw
- Roller skates
- Shopping cart
- Skateboard
- Ski
- Snakeboard
- Unicycle
- Watercraft rowing
- Wheelbarrow
- Wheelchair
Hybrid transport[edit | edit source]
Military transport[edit | edit source]
Air force transport[edit | edit source]
Army transport[edit | edit source]
- Armoured fighting vehicle
- Armoured personnel carrier
- Jeep
- Landing craft
- Limbers and caissons (military)
- Mega Tank
- Mini-Tank
- German Panzer
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Motorized road transport[edit | edit source]
Motorized off-road transport[edit | edit source]
- All-terrain vehicle
- Engineering vehicle
- Hovercraft
- Ice boat
- Snowmobile
- Sport utility vehicle
- Tank
- Traction engine
- Tractor
Pipeline transport[edit | edit source]
Rail transport[edit | edit source]
- Accessibility
- Glossary of rail terminology
- High-speed rail
- Locomotive
- Maglev (transport)
- Monorail
- Mountain railway
- Cable car (railway)
- Funicular
- Rack railway (cog railway)
- Multiple unit
- People mover
- Personal rapid transit
- Rail tracks
- 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
Ship transport[edit | edit source]
Space transport[edit | edit source]
Transport on the Moon and Mars[edit | edit source]
- 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[edit | edit source]
- Ascent stage of Apollo Lunar Module, manned, six times, 1969-1972 (return to Earth in the Apollo program)
Transportation systems[edit | edit source]
Networks[edit | edit source]
- Airlines
- Bridges
- Canals
- Foreshoreways
- Freeways
- Greenways
- Highways
- Motorways
- Personal rapid transit
- Pipeline transport
- Railroads (also called railways)
- Rivers
- Roads
- Segregated cycle facilities
- Sidewalks
- Skyways
- Stairways, ladders
- Tunnels
Nodes[edit | edit source]
- Airport, Heliport, List of airports
- Air traffic control
- Bus stop (including bus station, bus depot) and tram stop
- Harbor, Port, List of seaports
- Metro station
- Junction (road), Parking
- Spaceport
- Train station
Subsystems[edit | edit source]
History of transport[edit | edit source]
- Aviation history
- Domestication of the horse
- Horse-drawn vehicle
- Horse transports in the Middle Ages
- History of rail transport
- History of rapid transit
- History of the automobile
- List of transport museums
- Maritime history
Theory and design[edit | edit source]
- Engineering
- Fuel efficiency in transportation
- Intelligent transportation system
- Locomotion - self-powered motion of a human, non-human animal or vehicle
- Logistics
- Navigation
- Queueing theory
- Sustainable transport
- Tourism
- Traffic congestion
- Traffic psychology
- Transport economics
- Transport efficiency
- Transport finance
- Transport Logistic (trade show)
- Transport puzzle
- Transportation forecasting
- Transportation planning
- Travel
- Urban economics
- Urban planning
Fictional and proposed future transport[edit | edit source]
- Broomstick
- Flying car
- Flying sled (see Santa Claus)
- Interstellar travel
- Launch loop
- Magic carpet
- Moller Skycar M400
- Space elevator
- Starship
- Teleportation
- Transporter (Star Trek)
Transport by region[edit | edit source]
Transport lists[edit | edit source]
- History:
- Land transport:
- 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
- Maritime: Ships • Fictional ships • Sailing boat types • Marinas
- Space transport: Spacecraft