List of transport topics - Definition and Overview

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
  • List of London Underground stations
  • Stations of the Paris Metro
• Road junction, Parking
• Spaceport
• Railway station
  • Terminal station (Terminus)

Modes and vehicles

Aviation

• Aircraft (Airplane)
• 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

• Burro
• Camel
• Dog
• Donkey
• Elephant
• Homing pigeon
• Horse
• Mule
• Llama
• Ox
• Reindeer
• Yak

Non-human animal powered vehicles

• Carriage
• Cart
• Chariot
• Horse-drawn boat
• Sled
• Stagecoach

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

• Amphibian vehicle
• Moped
• Segway HT

Military transport

Airforce transport

• Military aircraft

Army transport

• Armoured fighting vehicle
• Armoured personnel carrier
• Gun carriage
• Jeep
• Landing craft
• Tank

Navy transport

• Naval ship
• Aircraft carrier
  • Escort aircraft carrier
• PT boat
• Submarine
  • U-boat
• Torpedo boat

Motorized road transport

• Automobile or Car
  • Car body styles
• 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

• Natural gas
• Oil
• Pneumatic tube
• Sewer
• Slurry
• Water

Rail transport

• High-speed rail
• Low floor
• Locomotive
• Maglev
• Metro (underground, subway); see also List of metro systems
• Monorail
• Mountain railway
  • Cable car or Funicular
  • Cog railway
• Multiple unit
  • Diesel multiple unit
• People mover
• Personal rapid transit
• Rail transport by country
  • History of rail transport by country
• Rail terminology
• Rail tracks
• Train
• Tram, light rail (streetcar, trolley); see also List of light-rail transit systems

Ship transport

• Barge
• Boat
  • Jetboat
  • Lifeboat
  • Punt
  • Wherry
  • Narrowboat
• Ferry
• Horse-drawn boat
• Hydrofoil
• Sailing Yacht
• Ship
• Shipping
• Tanker

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