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Outline of transport

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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to transport:

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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
  • By availability

  • Private transport
  • Public transport (public transit)
  • Modes and vehicles

  • Intermodal passenger transport
  • Aviation

    Aviation

  • Aircraft
  • Fixed-wing aircraft
  • 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

    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
  • Cart
  • 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
  • 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)
  • Human-powered aircraft
  • Ice skate
  • Heelies
  • Kick scooter
  • Punt (boat)
  • Rickshaw
  • Roller skates
  • Shopping cart
  • Skateboard
  • Ski
  • Snakeboard
  • Tricycle
  • Unicycle
  • 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)
  • Mega Tank
  • Mini-Tank
  • German Panzer
  • Navy transport
  • Aircraft carrier
  • Escort carrier
  • Naval ship
  • PT boat
  • Submarine
  • U-boat
  • Torpedo boat
  • Naval Tank ship
  • Motorized road transport

    Road transport

  • Automobile (car)
  • Car body styles
  • 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
  • Pipeline transport

    Pipeline transport

  • Natural gas
  • Petroleum
  • Pneumatic tube
  • Sanitary sewer
  • Slurry
  • Water
  • 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
  • Steam Train
  • Ship transport

    Ship transport

  • Barge
  • Boat
  • Jet Ski
  • Jetboat
  • Lifeboat (rescue)
  • Lifeboat (shipboard)
  • Narrowboat
  • Punt (boat)
  • Wherry
  • Ferry
  • Cable 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)
  • Networks

  • Airlines
  • Bridges
  • Canals
  • Foreshoreways
  • Freeways
  • Greenways
  • Highways
  • Motorways
  • Personal rapid transit
  • Pipeline transport
  • Railroads (also called railways)
  • Rivers
  • Roads
  • List of roads and highways
  • 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 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
  • Locomotion - self-powered motion of a human, non-human animal or vehicle
  • Logistics
  • Navigation
  • Queueing theory
  • Sustainable transport
  • Tourism
  • Ecotourism
  • Traffic congestion
  • Traffic psychology
  • Transport economics
  • Transport finance
  • Transport Logistic (trade show)
  • Transport puzzle
  • 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
  • Transport lists

    Transportation:

    Aviation articles: Aircraft • Manufacturers • Engines • Engine manufacturers • Weapons • By date and usage History: Transport museums Land transport: Automobiles:  Manufacturers • Truck types • Convoy codes Maritime:  Ships • Fictional ships • Sailing boat types • Marinas Space transport:  Spacecraft

    References

    Outline of transport Wikipedia