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List of transport topics
This is a list of transport related topics.
For more topics there is a collection of transportation related lists and a transportation category.
General topics
Design
- Civil engineering
- Engineering
- Highway engineering
- Transport engineering
- Transport traffic engineering
- Transportation planning
- Urban planning
Theory
- Logistics
- Navigation
- Queueing theory
- Tourism
- Traffic congestion
- Transport finance
- Transport economics
- Traffic psychology
- Transport puzzle
- Travel class
- Travel behavior
- Urban economics
History and geography
- List of transport museums
- Timeline of transportation technology
- U.S. Department of Transportation
- Transportation by country,
- Economy of Earth (transportation section)
Ownership
- Private transport
- Public transport (also called public transit)
Technologies
- Caterpillar track
- Containerization
- Engine
- Footwear
- Horse tack (Saddle, Stirrup)
- Intelligent transportation system
- Jet engine
- Magnetic levitation (transport)
- Motor
- Parachute
- Personal rapid transit
- Low floor
- Vertical take-off and landing
- Wheel
Networks
Links
- Airline
- Bridge
- Canal
- Freeway
- Highway
- Motorway
- Personal rapid transit
- Pipeline
- Railroad (also called railway)
- River
- Road, List of roads and highways
- Sidewalk
- Skyway
- Staircase, ladder
- Tunnel
Nodes
- Airport, Heliport, List of airports
- Air traffic control
- Bus stop (including bus station, bus depot) and tram stop
- Harbor, Seaport, List of seaports
- Metro station
- Road junction, Parking
- Spaceport
- Railway station
- Terminal station (Terminus)
Modes and vehicles
Aviation
- Aircraft (Airplane, Plane)
- Airship
- Autogyro
- Balloon
- Blimp
- Dirigible (see Airship)
- Helicopter
- Human-powered aircraft
- Parachute (downward air transport only)
- Zeppelin
Non-human animal-powered transport
Non-human animal power sources
Non-human animal powered vehicles
Cable transport
- Aerial tramway
- Cable car (railway)
- Chairlift
- Detachable chairlift
- Elevator
- Paternoster
- Gondola lift
- Funicular (Inclined plane)
- List of aerial lift manufacturers
Conveyor transport
- Conveyor belt
- Escalator
- Moving sidewalk (moving walkway, travelator), including the inclined moving sidewalk (moving ramp)
Human-powered transport
- Bicycle
- Baby transport
- Buggy, cart
- Crawling
- Human-powered aircraft
- Ice skate
- Punt (boat)
- Rickshaw
- Rowing
- Roller skate
- Running
- Scooter
- Shopping cart
- Skateboard
- Swimming
- Walking
- Wheelbarrow
- Wheelchair
Hybrid transport
Military transport
Airforce transport
Army transport
Navy transport
Motorized road transport
- Automobile or Car
- Auto rickshaw
- Bus
- Electric trolleybus
- Minivan
- Motorcycle
- School bus
- Truck
- Unimog
- Van
Motorized off-road transport
- All-terrain vehicle
- Hovercraft
- Ice yacht
- sports-utility/four-wheel-drive vehicles
- Snowmobile
- Tank
- Tractor
Pipeline transport
Rail transport
- High-speed rail
- Low floor
- Locomotive
- Maglev
- Metro (underground, subway); see also List of metro systems
- Monorail
- Mountain railway
- Multiple unit
- People mover
- Personal rapid transit
- Rail transport by country
- Rail terminology
- Rail tracks
- Train
- Tram, light rail (streetcar, trolley); see also List of light-rail transit systems
Ship transport
Space transport
- Interplanetary travel
- Propulsion method
- Rocket
- Space shuttle
- Space station
- Spacecraft, Spacecraft propulsion
Transport on the Moon and Mars
- Lunar rover (various, manned and unmanned, Moon, 1971-1973)
- MER-A (unmanned, Mars, 2004)
- MER-B (unmanned, Mars, 2004)
- Nomad rover (unmanned test vehicle, has not been in space, 1997)
- Sojourner (unmanned, Mars, 1997)
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)
Fictional and proposed future transport
- Broomstick
- Flying car
- Flying sled (see Santa Claus)
- Interstellar travel
- Magic carpet
- Skycar
- Space elevator
- Teleportation
- Transporter (Star Trek)
- Starship
Related terms and topics
- Air safety
- Alternative Transportation Movement
- Driving involves controlling a vehicle, usually a motor vehicle such as a truck, bus, or car. For motorcycles, bicycles and animals it is called riding.
- Locomotion - self-powered motion of a human, non-human animal or vehicle
External links
- http://artzia.com/Recreation/Travel/Mode/ - links
- http://www.archenzo.it A new concept in motorway design - Rethink the highways
- http://www.dasautoshippers.com Auto Transport Specialists Since 1954
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