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:For other article subjects named transport see transport (disambiguation).
Transport, or transportation in American English, is the movement of people and goods from one place to another. The term is derived from the Latin trans, meaning across, and portare, meaning to carry.
1 Aspects of transport
The field of transport has several aspects: loosely they can be divided into a triad of infrastructure, vehicles, and operations. Infrastructure includes the transport networks ( roads, railways, airways, canals, pipelines, etc.) that are used, as well as the nodes or terminals (such as airports, railway stations, bus stations and seaports). The vehicles generally ride on the networks, such as automobileAn automobile usually called a car (an old word for carriage) or a truck is a wheeled vehicle that carries its own engine. Older terms include horseless carriage and motor car with "motor" referring to what is now usually called the engine. The act of opes, trainThis article is about trains in rail transport. For other types of train see train (disambiguation Coventry, England In rail transport, a train consists of several connected rail vehicles that are capable of being moved together along a guideway to transps, airplanes. The operations deal with the control of the system, such as traffic signals and ramp meterA ramp meter is a device, usually a basic traffic light, that regulates traffic entering freeways according to current traffic conditions. They have several aims. One is to break up platoons entering freeways, ensuring that traffic can merge easily. A secs, railroad switchA railroad switch (known in British English as a point a set of points or occasionally a turnout is a construction where rail track A splits into two tracks B and C. It can be in two positions, which determine (as opposed to steering) whether a train comies, air traffic controlSchiphol Airport The air traffic control system gives guidance to aircraft, to prevent collisions and manage efficient traffic flow. See also air traffic controller. Air traffic control can be divided into two major subspecialties, terminal control and en, etc, as well as policies, such as how to finance the system (e.g. use of tolls or gasoline taxes in the case of highway transport).
Broadly speaking, the design of networks are the domain of civil engineering and urban planning, the design of vehicles of mechanical engineering and specialized subfields such as nautical engineering and aerospace engineering, and the operations are usually specialized, though might appropriately belong to operations research or systems engineering.
