Outline of transport

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

Main article: 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)

Modes and vehicles

See also Category: Transportation by mode.

• Intermodal passenger transport

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

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

• Aerial tramway
• Cable car (railway)
• Chairlift
  • Detachable chairlift
• Elevator
• Funicular (inclined plane)
• Gondola lift
• List of aerial lift manufacturers
• Paternoster

Conveyor transport

• Conveyor belt
• Escalator
• Moving walkway (moving sidewalk, travelator, and the inclined moving sidewalk, a moving ramp)

Human-powered transport

• 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

• 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

• 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

Motorized off-road transport

• All-terrain vehicle
• Engineering vehicle
• Hovercraft
• Ice boat
• Snowmobile
• Sport utility vehicle
• Tank
• Traction engine
• Tractor

Pipeline transport

• Natural gas
• Petroleum
• Pneumatic tube
• Sanitary sewer
• Slurry
• Water

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

• Barge
• Boat
  • Jet Ski
  • Jetboat
  • Lifeboat (rescue)
  • Lifeboat (shipboard)
  • Narrowboat
  • Punt (boat)
  • Wherry
• Ferry
• Horse-drawn boat
• Hydrofoil
• Sailing
• Ship
• Tank ship
• Yacht

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)

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
• Segregated cycle facilities
• Sidewalks
• Skyways
• Stairways, ladders
• Tunnels

Nodes

• 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
  • 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

See also: Timeline of transportation technology

• 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

For a more comprehensive list, see List of proposed future transport.

• 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

• United States Department of Transportation
• Worldwide transportation infrastructure

Transport lists

See also Category: Transportation lists.

Transportation:

Aviation articles:

Aircraft • Manufacturers • Engines • Engine manufacturers • Weapons • By date and usage

Aviation accidents and incidents:  By airline • By location • By year

Airports:  AU • BE • FR • GR • JP • PL • UK

History:

Transport museums

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 • USA • Longest suspension bridge spans

Tunnels:  NL • NZ • UK

Maritime:  Ships • Fictional ships • Sailing boat types • Marinas

Space transport:  Spacecraft

See also

Transport portal

• Index of environmental articles

External links

• Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Berkeley
• "Friedrich List" Faculty of Transportation and Traffic Sciences, Dresden - Germany
• Northwestern University Transportation Library