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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Private transport
- Public transport (public transit)
Types of transport, by mode and vehicles
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Aviation
[edit]- 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
[edit]Animals domesticated for transport
[edit]- camel, Arabian, and Bactrian
- carabao
- deer
- dog
- elephant
- equine
- 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
[edit]- 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
- 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
- Park drag
- 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
[edit]- Aerial tramway
- Cable car (railway)
- Chairlift
- Elevator
- Funicular (inclined plane)
- Gondola lift
- List of aerial lift manufacturers
- Paternoster lift
- chain ferry
Conveyor transport
[edit]- Conveyor belt
- Escalator
- Moving walkway (moving sidewalk, travelator, and the inclined moving sidewalk, a moving ramp)
Convoy
[edit]Human-powered transport
[edit]- 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
- Hand-powered vehicles
- Row action-powered vehicles
- Foot-powered vehicles
- Board-based vehicles
- Pushed or pulled vehicles
- Carried vehicles
- Weight-shifting vehicles
- Pedal-powered vehicles
- Human-powered watercraft
- Human-powered amphibious vehicles
- 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)
Hybrid transport
[edit]Military transport
[edit]Army transport
[edit]- Armoured fighting vehicle
- Armoured personnel carrier
- Jeep
- Landing craft
- Limbers and caissons (military)
- Mega Tank
- Mini-Tank
- German Panzer
Navy transport
[edit]Ground transportation
[edit]Motorized road transport
[edit]Motorized off-road transport
[edit]- All-terrain vehicle
- Engineering vehicle
- Hovercraft
- Ice boat
- Snowmobile
- Sport utility vehicle
- Tank
- Traction engine
- Tractor
Rail transport
[edit]- 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
Pipeline transport
[edit]Ship transport
[edit]Space transport
[edit]Transport on the Moon and Mars
[edit]- 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 – robotic, Mars, 2004)
- Sojourner (robotic, Mars, 1997)
- Spirit rover (MER-Arobotic, Mars, 2004)
Space transport launched from the surface of the Moon
[edit]- Ascent stage of Apollo Lunar Module, crewed, six times, 1969-1972 (return to Earth in the Apollo program)
Transmission
[edit]Transportation systems
[edit]Networks
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Transport hub
- Airport, Heliport, List of airports
- Air traffic control
- Bus stop (including bus station, bus depot) and tram stop
- Harbor, Port
- Metro station
- Junction (road), Parking
- Spaceport
- Train station
Subsystems
[edit]History of transport
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
- Traffic congestion
- Traffic psychology
- Transport economics
- Transport finance
- Transport Logistic (trade show)
- Transportation forecasting
- Transportation planning
- Travel
- Urban economics
- Urban planning
Fictional and proposed future transport
[edit]- 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
[edit]
Transport lists
[edit]- 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
See also
[edit]- 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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Transport at Wikipedia's sister projects
Definitions from Wiktionary
Media from Commons
News from Wikinews
Quotations from Wikiquote
Texts from Wikisource
Textbooks from Wikibooks
Resources from Wikiversity
