Engineering:Outline of transport

Short description: Overview of and topical guide to 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

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

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

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

Conveyor transport

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

Convoy

caravan
- Camel train

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

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

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

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

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

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-B – robotic, 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

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

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

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: Automotive industry • 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:

Bridges: UK • US • Longest suspension bridge spans

Tunnels: NL • NZ • UK

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

Space transport: Spacecraft

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