Outline of transport explained

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

• 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

See main article: Mode of transport and vehicles.

• Intermodal passenger transport

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

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
• 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

Cable transport

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

Conveyor transport

Conveyor transport

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

Convoy

Convoy

• caravan
  • Camel train

Human-powered transport

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

• 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

Ground transportation

Ground transportation

Motorized road transport

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
  • Campervan
  • Trailer
    • Caravan
• Sports car

Motorized off-road transport

Off-road transport

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

Rail 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

Pipeline transport

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

Ship transport

Ship transport

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

Space transport

Space transport

• Interplanetary spaceflight
• Rocket
• Space Shuttle
• Space station
• Spacecraft
  • Spacecraft propulsion

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-Brobotic, 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

Transmission

• Power transmission
  • Electric power transmission
• Telecommunication
  • Transmission (telecommunications)

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

• Air safety
• Containerization
• Continuous track
• Engine
• Foot
• Wheel

History of transport

See also: History of transport.

• 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

• 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

See main article: List of proposed future transport.

• 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

• United States Department of Transportation
• Worldwide transportation infrastructure

Transport 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 • US • Longest suspension bridge spans

Tunnels

  NL • NZ • UK

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

Space transport:  Spacecraft

See also

• Index of environmental articles
• Outline of vehicles
• Journal of Transport and Land Use
• List of emerging technologies
• Taxicabs by country
• Public transport

External links

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