Outline of transport
Overview of and topical guide to transport
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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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
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
- 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
Military transport
Air force transport
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
- Naval ship
- PT boat
- Submarine
- Torpedo boat
- Naval Tank ship
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
- 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
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 – 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
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
- Junction (road), Parking
- Spaceport
- Train station
Subsystems
History of transport
Theory and design
- 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
Transport by region
Transport lists
- Airports: Busiest • Africa • Asia • Europe • North America • Oceania • South America
- 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
External links
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Media from Commons
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Quotations from Wikiquote
Texts from Wikisource
Textbooks from Wikibooks
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