Outline of transport#Nodes
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)
Types of transport, by mode and vehicles
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{{category see also|Transportation by mode}}
=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=
==Animals domesticated for transport==
- camel, Arabian, and Bactrian
- carabao
- deer
- dog
- sled dog
- Dogcart (dog-drawn)
- elephant
- equine
- donkey
- hinny
- horse
- riding horse
- packhorse
- driving horse
- draft horse
- mule
- llama
- moose
- ostrich
- ox
- reindeer
- sheep
- yak
- Turtles were used for riding as a sport in early 20th-century Australia
- Dolphins (to carry markers to attach to detected mines)
- Pigeon (for carrying messages)
==Animal-powered vehicles==
- barge (sometimes pulled by humans)
- berlin (vehicle)
- Brougham (carriage)
- carriage
- cart
- chaise
- charabanc
- chariot (ancient form sometimes used in combat, later a racing machine, later a name for something entirely different in carriages)
- coach
- Conestoga wagon
- curricle
- dogcart
- drag
- dray
- ferry
- float
- gig
- governess cart
- Hansom cab
- horsecar
- horse-drawn boat
- horse-powered boat
- Experiment (horse-powered boat)
- howdah
- litter (vehicle) (sometimes carried by humans, mainly used with equines, though occasionally camels)
- mail coach
- Michigan logging wheels
- omnibus
- bullock cart
- pantechnicon van
- phaeton (carriage)
- postchaise
- pulka
- railway
- rockaway (carriage)
- sled
- sledge
- sleigh
- stagecoach
- streetcar
- sulky
- tangah
- team boat
- telega
- towboat
- travois
- trolley
- van
- vardo
- Victoria (carriage)
- vis-a-vis (carriage)
- wagon
- wain
=Cable transport=
=Conveyor transport=
- Conveyor belt
- Escalator
- Moving walkway (moving sidewalk, travelator, and the inclined moving sidewalk, a moving ramp)
=Convoy=
= Human-powered transport =
- Human-powered land vehicles
- Pedal-powered vehicles
- Bicycle (outline)
- Bicycle trailer
- BMX bike
- Boneshaker
- City bicycle
- Cold-weather biking
- Cruiser bicycle
- Cycle rickshaw
- Cyclo-cross bicycle
- Fatbike
- Flat bar road bike
- Folding bicycle
- Freight bicycle
- Hybrid bicycle
- Mountain bike
- Party bike
- Pedelec
- Penny-farthing
- Porteur bicycle
- Prone bicycle
- Quadracycle
- Recumbent bicycle
- Road bicycle
- Roadster
- Safety bicycle
- Small wheel bicycle
- Tandem bicycle
- Touring bicycle
- Trailer bike
- Tricycle
- Unicycle
- Utility bicycle
- Velocar
- Velocipede
- Velomobile
- Treadle-powered vehicles
- Treadle bicycle
- Hand-powered vehicles
- Handcar
- Handcycle
- Hobcart
- Wheelchair
- Row action-powered vehicles
- Rowing cycle
- Foot-powered vehicles
- Balance bicycle
- Dandy horse
- Kick scooter
- Inline skating
- skates
- Roller skating
- skates
- Walking
- Board-based vehicles
- Brakeboard
- Caster board
- Freeboard
- Freeline skates
- Longboard
- Skateboard
- Snakeboard
- Street luge
- Pushed or pulled vehicles
- Baby transport
- Baggage cart
- Cart
- Hand truck
- Pulled rickshaw
- Shopping cart
- Stairclimber
- Stretcher
- Wheelbarrow
- Carried vehicles
- Litter/sedan chair
- Scoop stretcher
- Weight-shifting vehicles
- Trikke
- Human-powered watercraft
- Canoe
- Hydrocycle
- Hydrofoil
- Kayak
- Paddleboarding
- Pedalo
- Rowing
- Human-powered amphibious vehicles
- Amphibious cycle
- Human-powered snow and ice vehicles
- Alpine touring skis
- Cold-weather biking
- Crampons
- Cross-country skis
- Fatbiking (biking in snow with bikes with wide tires)
- Ice skates
- Kicksled
- Sled
- Snowboard
- Snowshoes
- Telemark skis
- Aircraft (list)
- Helicopter
- Ornithopter
=Hybrid transport=
=Military transport=
==[[Air force]] transport==
==Army transport==
==Navy transport==
=Ground transportation=
==Motorized road transport==
==Motorized off-road 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=
=Ship transport=
=Space transport=
==Transport on the Moon and Mars==
- Lunar rover (various, crewed and robotic, Moon, 1971–1973)
- Lunokhod programme
- Nomad rover (robotic test vehicle, has not been in space, 1997)
- Opportunity rover (MER-B{{spaced ndash}}robotic, Mars, 2004)
- Sojourner (robotic, Mars, 1997)
- Spirit rover (MER-Arobotic, Mars, 2004)
==Space transport launched from the surface of the Moon==
- Ascent stage of Apollo Lunar Module, crewed, six times, 1969-1972 (return to Earth in the Apollo program)
=Transmission=
Transportation systems
=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=
History of transport
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=
{{mainlist|List of proposed future transport}}
Transport by region
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Transport lists
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Transportation:
::Aircraft • Manufacturers • Engines • Engine manufacturers • Weapons • By date and usage
::Aviation accidents and incidents: By airline • By location • By year
::Airports: Busiest • Africa • Asia • Europe • North America • Oceania • South America
: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.
::Bridges: UK • US • Longest suspension bridge spans
:Maritime: Ships • Fictional ships • Sailing boat types • Marinas
:Space transport: Spacecraft
See also
External links
{{Sister project links|Transport}}
- [http://www.its.berkeley.edu/ Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Berkeley]
- [http://tu-dresden.de/die_tu_dresden/fakultaeten/vkw?set_language=en&cl=en "Friedrich List" Faculty of Transportation and Traffic Sciences, Dresden - Germany]
- [http://www.library.northwestern.edu/transportation/ Northwestern University Transportation Library]
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