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(Non-human) animal-powered transport is a broad category of the human use of non-human animals (also known as beasts of burden) for the movement of people and goods. ...
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Human-powered transport is the movement of people (locomotion) and goods through their own power, or the power of other humans. ...
Ship Transport is the process of moving people, goods, etc. ...
Diesel and electric trains and locomotives replaced steam in many countries in the decades after World War II. Many countries since the 1960s have adopted High-speed railways. ...
Disruptions in organized traffic flow can create delays lasting hours. ...
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For more topics there is a collection of transportation related lists and a transportation category. See also:Wikipedia:List of lists and Wikipedia:List of lists/uncategorized This is a list of reference tables, similar to the collection of reference tables found at the back of almanacs, dictionaries and encyclopedias (or an index of them, if theyre scattered throughout the work). ...
General topics
Design In modern usage, civil engineering is a broad field of engineering that deals with the planning, construction, and maintenance of fixed structures, or public works, as they related to earth, water, or civilization and their processes. ...
Licensure and Qualifications for the Practice of Engineering The Engineers Ring The Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer Engineering Disasters and Learning from Failure American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) ASEE engineering profile (2003) PDF Categories: Architecture and engineering occupations | Engineering ...
Highway engineering is the process of design and construction of efficient and safe highways and roads. ...
Transport engineering aims to ensure the safe and efficient movement of people and goods. ...
For another meaning of the term traffic engineering, please see telecommunications traffic engineering. ...
Transportation planning is the field involved with the siting of transportation facilities (generally streets and highways and public transport lines). ...
Urban, city, or town planning, deals with design of the built environment from the municipal and metropolitan perspective. ...
Theory Ecotourism essentially means ecological tourism, where ecological has both environmental and social connotations. ...
Inside Nexus Distribution, a United States logistics provider. ...
There are several traditions of navigation. ...
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A tourist boat travels the River Seine in Paris, France Beaches make popular tourist resorts Beaches make popular tourist resorts Tourism can be defined as the act of travel for the purpose of recreation, and the provision of services for this act. ...
Traffic jams are common in heavily populated areas. ...
Traffic psychology is a young expanding field in psychology. ...
Transport economics is a cross-disciplinary study linking civil engineering and economics. ...
Transport finance is the subject that explores how transport networks are paid for. ...
Transport puzzles are logistical puzzles, which represent real-life transport problems. ...
Travel behavior is the study of what people do over space, and how people use transport. ...
A travel class is a quality of accommodation on public transport. ...
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History and geography This is a list of transport museums throughout the world. ...
Timeline of transportation technology 3500 BC - Wheeled carts are invented 3500 BC - River boats are invented 2000 BC - Horses are tamed and used for transport 770 - Iron horseshoes come into common use 1492 - Leonardo da Vinci describes a flying machine 1662 - Blaise Pascal invents a horse-drawn public bus which...
The United States Department of Transportation (DOT) is a Cabinet department of the United States government concerned with transport. ...
Transportation by country A Afghanistan - Albania - Algeria - Andorra - Angola - Anguilla - Antigua and Barbuda - Argentina - Armenia - Australia - Austria - Azerbaijan B Bahamas - Bahrain - Bangladesh - Barbados - Belarus - Belgium - Belize - Benin - Bermuda - Bhutan - Bolivia - Bosnia and Herzegovina - Botswana - Brazil - Brunei - Bulgaria - Burkina Faso - Burma - Burundi C Cambodia - Cameroon - Canada - Cape Verde - Central African Republic...
The world economy can be represented various ways, and broken down in various ways. ...
Ownership Private transport, as opposed to public transport, is transport in ones own vehicle (e. ...
A taxi serving as a bus Public transport (Commonwealth English) comprises all transport systems in which the passengers do not travel in their own vehicles. ...
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Caterpillar tracks are large (modular) tracks used on tanks, construction equipment and certain other off-road vehicles. ...
Containerization is a system of intermodal cargo transport using standard ISO containers that can be loaded on container ships, railroad cars, and trucks. ...
An engine is something that produces some effect from a given input. ...
High-heeled shoe Footwear consists of garments worn on the feet. ...
Tack is any of the various accessories worn by horses in the course of their use as domesticated animals. ...
The Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) program is an initiative of the United States Department of Transportation to add information technology to transport infrastructure and vehicles. ...
A Pratt and Whitney turbofan engine for the F-15 Eagle is tested at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, USA. The tunnel behind the engine muffles noise and allows exhaust to escape. ...
Magnetic levitation is the process by which an object is suspended above another object with no other support but magnetic fields. ...
A motor is a device that converts energy into mechanical power, and is often synonymous with engine. ...
The Apollo 15 capsule landed safely despite a parachute failure. ...
Older children can use personal rapid transit without adult help. ...
Passenger door of a low-floor tram Passenger door of a non-low-floor tram In public transportation, low floor is a term describing vehicles such as busses, trolleybusses and trams whose passenger compartment has a floor which is considerably lower than that of traditional cars. ...
Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) describes airplanes that can lift off vertically. ...
A wheel is a circular object that together with an axle allows low friction motion, e. ...
A wide variety of systems of interconnected components are called networks. ...
Links A Boeing 747-400 belonging to Virgin Atlantic Airways, one of the UKs largest airlines. ...
The Golden Gate Bridge connecting San Francisco and its peninsula to Marin County A bridge is a structure built to span a gorge, valley, road, railroad track, river, body of water, or any other physical obstacle. ...
The Canal du Midi in Toulouse, France Canals are man-made waterways, usually connecting existing lakes, rivers, or oceans. ...
A typical rural freeway (Interstate 5 in the Central Valley of California). ...
Mitchell Freeway in Perth, Western Australia For other uses, see Highway (disambiguation). ...
A motorway (Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and some Commonwealth nations) is both a type of road and a classification. ...
Older children can use personal rapid transit without adult help. ...
This is the top-level page of WikiProject trains Rail tracks Rail transport refers to the land transport of passengers and goods along railways or railroads. ...
For the Second World War frigate class, see River class frigate The Murray River in Australia A river is a large natural waterway. ...
A road is a strip of land, smoothed or otherwise prepared to allow easier travel, connecting two or more destinations. ...
List of articles related to roads and highways around the world. ...
For the former Microsoft owned website see: Sidewalk. ...
A skyway is a path that is traversed without touching the ground. ...
Stairs, staircase, stairway, flight of stairs are all names for a construction designed to bridge a large vertical distance by dividing it into smaller vertical distances, called steps. ...
Disused railway tunnel now converted to pedestrian and bicycle use, near Houyet, Belgium A tunnel is an underground passage. ...
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Air Traffic Control Towers (ATCTs) at Schiphol Airport Air traffic control (ATC) is a service provided by ground based controllers who direct aircraft on the ground and in the air to ensure safe, orderly and efficient traffic flow. ...
For other meanings, see Bus stop (disambiguation). ...
A harbor (AmE), harbour (CwE) or haven is a place where ships may shelter from the weather or are stored. ...
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This is a list of the worlds seaports: // Atlantic Ocean Accra, Ghana Banana, Democratic Republic of the Congo Barranquilla, Colombia Belém, Brazil Bergen, Norway Bilbao, Spain Boston, Massachusetts, United States Buenos Aires, Argentina Cabinda, Angola Cádiz, Spain Cape Town, South Africa Casablanca, Morocco Cayenne, French Guiana Charleston...
Exterior open entrance to a metro station (Tribunal station in Madrid) A metro station is a railway station for a metro. ...
This is a list of currently-open stations on the London Underground and the Docklands Light Railway. ...
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In the field of road transport, a road junction is a place where two or more roads either meet or cross. ...
Parking is the act of stopping a vehicle, exiting it, and leaving the vehicle unoccupied for more than a brief time. ...
A spaceport is a site for launching spacecraft, by analogy with airport for aircraft. ...
Passengers bustle around the typical grand edifice of Londons Broad Street Station in 1865. ...
A terminal station, or terminus (plural: termini) is commonly used to describe a bus station or rail station (US: train station, UK: railway station). ...
Vehicles are non-living means of transport. ...
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An aircraft is any machine capable of atmospheric flight. ...
Akron in flight, 2 November 1931 An airship is a buoyant aircraft that can be steered and propelled through the air. ...
An autogyro (only an autogiro when made by Cierva (see below), sometimes called a gyroplane or Gyrocopterâ„¢) is an aircraft with an unpowered rotary wing, or rotor, that resembles a helicopter. ...
Balloons are often used or given on special occasions, like greeting cards or flowers. ...
Blimp is an informal term typically applied to non-rigid airships. ...
Akron in flight, 2 November 1931 An airship is a buoyant aircraft that can be steered and propelled through the air. ...
A helicopter is an aircraft which is lifted and propelled by one or more large horizontal rotors (propellers). ...
Three human powered vehicles: the Gossamer Albatross II and two bicycles. ...
The Apollo 15 capsule landed safely despite a parachute failure. ...
LZ127 Graf Zeppelin, the most travelled airship in history A Zeppelin is a type of rigid airship (or dirigible) pioneered by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin in the early 20th century, and based on a design by David Schwarz. ...
(Non-human) animal-powered transport is a broad category of the human use of non-human animals (also known as beasts of burden) for the movement of people and goods. ...
Non-human animal power sources Phyla Porifera (sponges) Ctenophora (comb jellies) Cnidaria Placozoa Subregnum Bilateria Acoelomorpha Orthonectida Rhombozoa Myxozoa Superphylum Deuterostomia Chordata (vertebrates, etc. ...
Binomial name Equus asinus The donkey or ass (Equus asinus) is a domesticated animal of the horse family, Equidae. ...
Species Camelus bactrianus Camelus dromedarius A camel is either of the two species of large even-toed ungulate in the genus Camelus, the Dromedary (Single hump) and the Bactrian Camel (Double hump). ...
Trinomial name Canis lupus familiaris (Linnaeus, 1758) The Dog is a canine carnivorous mammal that has been domesticated for at least 14,000 years and perhaps for as long as 150,000 years based on recent evidence. ...
Binomial name Equus asinus Linnaeus, 1758 The donkey or ass or Spaniard (Equus asinus) is a domesticated animal of the horse family, Equidae. ...
Genera and Species Loxodonta Loxodonta cyclotis Loxodonta africana Elephas Elephas maximus Elephas recki (extinct) Stegodon (extinct) Deinotherium (extinct) Mammuthus (extinct) Elephantidae (the elephants) is the only extant family in the order Proboscidea. ...
The homing pigeon is a variety of domesticated Rock Dove (Columba livia) that has been selectively bred to be able to find its way home over extremely long distances. ...
Binomial name Equus caballus Linnaeus, 1758 The Horse (Equus caballus) is a sizeable ungulate mammal, one of the seven modern species of the genus Equus. ...
In its common modern meaning, a mule is the offspring of a male donkey and a female horse. ...
Binomial name Lama glama (Linnaeus, 1758) The Llama (Lama glama) is a large camelid native to South America. ...
Binomial name Bos taurus Linnaeus, 1758 Cattle are domesticated ungulates, a member of the subfamily Bovinae of the family Bovidae. ...
Binomial name Rangifer tarandus The reindeer, known as caribou in North America, is an Arctic-dwelling deer (Rangifer tarandus). ...
Binomial name Bos gruniens Linnaeus, 1766 Yak - n. ...
Non-human animal powered vehicles Vehicles are non-living means of transport. ...
Tourists in a vis-a-vis, Prague The classic definition of a carriage is a four-wheeled horse-drawn private passenger vehicle with leaf springs or leather strapping for suspension, whether light, smart and fast or large and comfortable. ...
Note: A cart may also be short for cartridge, particularly in the radio industry, where precursors of 8-track cartridges (and later CDs and zip drives) were used. ...
Chariot was the name of a WW2 naval weapon, the British manned torpedo. ...
A horse-drawn boat or tow-boat is a historic boat operating on a canal, pulled by a horse walking on a special road along the canal, the tow-path. ...
A sled, sledge or sleigh is a vehicle with runners for sliding instead of wheels for rolling. ...
For the 1939 film starring John Wayne see Stagecoach. ...
Cable transport refers to the broad class of transport modes that rely on vehicles pulled by cables, rather than having an internal power source. ...
Cable car at Zell am See in the Austrian Alps. ...
Cable Car in San Francisco A San Francisco cable car A cable car or cable railway is a mass transit system using rail cars that are propelled by a continuously moving cable running at a constant speed. ...
A chairlift in Bad Gastein, Austria A chairlift is a type of aerial lift, which consists of a constantly moving loop of steel cable strung between two end terminals and generally over intermediate towers. ...
A detachable chairlift A detachable chairlift or high-speed chairlift is a type of aerial lift, which, like a chairlift, consists of numerous chairs that are connected to a constantly moving steel cable that is strung between two terminals over intermediate towers. ...
A modern elevator has buttons to allow passengers to select the desired floor. ...
This article is about the paternoster lift. ...
An example of a gondola lift at the Canyons in Park City, Utah. ...
Angels Flight, Los Angeles, California with gantlet track configuration A funicular, also called funicular railway or inclined railway, inclined plane, or in the United Kingdom a cliff railway, consists of a system of transport in which cables attach to a tram-like vehicle on rails to move it up and...
This is a list of the worlds current and former aerial lift manufacturers. ...
Conveyor transport is the broad category of transport that includes modes developed from the idea of a conveyor belt. ...
Point of contact between a power transmission belt and its pulley. ...
Escalators at Westminster tube station, London An escalator is a conveyor transport device to transport people, consisting of a staircase whose steps move up or down on tracks which keep the surfaces of the individual steps horizontal. ...
An inclined moving sidewalk at Beaudry metro station in Montreal This article or section should be merged with escalator. ...
Human-powered transport is the movement of people (locomotion) and goods through their own power, or the power of other humans. ...
This racing bicycle is built using lightweight, shaped aluminum tubing and carbon fiber stays and forks. ...
For transportation of a baby or toddler there are special vehicles, special car seats, and devices for carrying. ...
Buggy can refer to various types of carts: a dune buggy or swamp buggy; a shopping cart (Southern American English); a form of baby transport also called a pushchair (British English) or stroller (American English); or a lightweight carriage, as in horse and buggy. ...
Crawling is a form of moving around by some animals and in some cases by humans. ...
Three human powered vehicles: the Gossamer Albatross II and two bicycles. ...
Modern recreational skates Ice skates are boots with blades attached to the bottom, used to propel ones self across ice surfaces. ...
Punts on the Cam A punt is a flat-bottomed boat with a square-cut bow, designed for use in small rivers or other shallow water. ...
Japanese rickshaws c. ...
Rowing refers to several forms of physical activity: For rowing boats in general, see Watercraft rowing. ...
The roller skate is a type of skate with wheels to be used on solid ground (as opposed to the ice skate which is to be used on ice. ...
Man Running - Edward Muybridge Horse Running - Edward Muybridge Running is by definition the fastest means for an animal to move on foot. ...
A typical mid 1980s twist and go scooter Another scooter A scooter is any of several related types of vehicle, used for transport for recreational or medical purposes. ...
A shopping cart/trolley A shopping cart (also called a buggy, or a trolley in British English; sometimes referred to as a carriage or shopping carriage in the U.S. region of New England) is a cart supplied by a shop, especially a supermarket, for use by customers inside the...
A modern skateboard. ...
Swimming is the method by which humans (or other animals) move themselves through water without walking on the bottom. ...
Walking is the main form of animal locomotion on land, distinguished from running and crawling. ...
A common wheelbarrow A wheelbarrow is a small one or two-wheeled cart designed to be pushed by a single person using two handles to the rear. ...
Wheelchair seating A wheelchair is a device used for mobility by people for whom walking is difficult or impossible, due to illness or disability. ...
A hybrid transport is a form of transportation that combines human power with machine or other power, and is not easily classified in the other categories. ...
An amphibian or amphibious vehicle, is a vehicle that, like an amphibian, can move on land as well as on water. ...
Wiktionary has a definition of: Moped A moped is a motorized two-wheeled vehicle subject to local speed regulations. ...
Inventor Dean Kamen demonstrates the Segway HT at the U.S. Department of Commerce on February 14, 2002. ...
Military transport
An air force is a military organization that primarily operates in air-based war. ...
Military aircraft are airplanes used in warfare. ...
Army transport A nations army is its military, or more specifically, all of its land forces. ...
An armoured fighting vehicle (AFV) is a military vehicle, equipped with protection against hostile attacks and often mounted weapons. ...
The M113, one of the most common APCs, on duty during the Vietnam War Armoured personnel carriers (APCs) are light armoured fighting vehicles for the transport of infantry. ...
Jeep is an automobile marque of DaimlerChrysler. ...
Landing craft Rapière A landing craft is a type of boat used to convey infantry and vehicles on to a shore during an assault from sea to land. ...
Navy transport U.S. Navy supercarrier USS Nimitz on November 3, 2003. ...
USS Port Royal (CG-73), a Ticonderoga class cruiser. ...
An aircraft carrier is a warship whose main role is to deploy and recover aircraft. ...
The escort aircraft carrier or escort carrier, was a small aircraft carrier developed by the U.S. Navy in the early part of World War II to deal with the U-boat crisis of the Battle of the Atlantic. ...
PT boats in line A PT boat was a motor torpedo boat (hull classification symbol PT), a small, fast vessel used by the United States Navy in World War II to attack larger surface ships. ...
USS Los Angeles A submarine is a specialized watercraft that can operate underwater. ...
U-boat is also a nickname for some diesel locomotives built by GE; see List of GE locomotives October 1939. ...
A torpedo boat is a relatively small and fast naval ship designed to launch torpedoes at larger surface ships. ...
Disruptions in organized traffic flow can create delays lasting hours. ...
A small variety of cars, the most popular kind of automobile. ...
A small variety of cars, the most popular kind of automobile. ...
Cars can come in a large variety of different body styles. ...
Passengers and drivers meet at this auto rickshaw stand in Chennai. ...
TheBus, established by Mayor Frank Fasi, is Honolulus only public transit system. ...
A trolleybus in Arnhem An electric trolleybus (also known as trolley bus or trackless trolley or simply trolley) is a bus powered by two overhead electric wires, from which the bus draws electricity using two trolley poles. ...
A modern minivan - 2004 Chrysler Town & Country Typical early minivan (a Dodge Caravan) A minivan is a type of vehicle developed independently by Matra/Renault and the Chrysler Corporation. ...
A motorcycle (or motorbike) is a two-wheeled vehicle powered by an engine. ...
A new 1973 Wayne Lifeguard school bus won in national contest for safety ideas is presented to winning driver from Goochland County Public Schools by Wayne dealer Jeff Davis at Virginia State Capitol A school bus is a specially built, painted and equipped bus used to transport students to and...
The driver of a car transporter truck prepares to offload Skoda Octavia cars in Cardiff, Wales For further uses of the word truck, see Truck (disambiguation). ...
Unimog The Unimog (from the German UNIversal-MOtor-Gerät, meaning universal motor machine/equipment) is a series of trucks from Daimler-Benz designed shortly after WWII, originally to be used as slow-moving tractors for Germanys turnip harvest. ...
Van can mean: Van, a road vehicle. ...
Motorized off-road transport Off-road transport is a vehicle specially designed such that it can be used on a wider variety of surfaces than purposely designed roads. ...
A group of “quad bike†all terrain vehicles The term all-terrain vehicle is used to describe a number of small open motorised buggies and tricycles designed for off-road use. ...
A U.S. Navy hovercraft attached to the Amphibious assault ship Kearsarge (LHD-3) A hovercraft is a vehicle that is supported on a cushion of air. ...
An ice yacht or ice boat is a vehicle for travel over frozen lakes and sea, driven by a sail. ...
A sport utility vehicle (SUV) or off-roader is a vehicle that combines the load-hauling and passenger-carrying capacity of a large station wagon or minivan with features designed for off-road driving. ...
A snowmobile tour at Yellowstone National Park (NPS Photo) A snowmobile (or snow scooter) is a land vehicle propelled by one or two rubber tracks, with skis for steering. ...
An elevated section of the Alaska Pipeline Pipeline transport is a transportation of goods through a tube. ...
Natural gas rig Natural gas (commonly refered to as gas in many countries) is a gaseous fossil fuel consisting primarily of methane. ...
Oil is a generic term for organic liquids that are not miscible with water. ...
Pneumatic tubes are systems of air-driven containers in a network of tubes used for transporting physical objects. ...
Sewers transport wastewater from buildings to treatment facilities. ...
A slurry is a liquid mixture (especially involving water) composed of a mixture of various insoluble matter, such as mud or plaster of paris. ...
Water (from the Old English word wæter; c. ...
Diesel and electric trains and locomotives replaced steam in many countries in the decades after World War II. Many countries since the 1960s have adopted High-speed railways. ...
Japanese Shinkansen trains began the development of modern high-speed railways (shown here: West Japan Railway Company 500 Series Shinkansen at Kyoto). ...
Passenger door of a low-floor tram Passenger door of a non-low-floor tram In public transportation, low floor is a term describing vehicles such as busses, trolleybusses and trams whose passenger compartment has a floor which is considerably lower than that of traditional cars. ...
A locomotive is a railway vehicle that provides the motive power for a train, and has no payload capacity of its own; its sole purpose is to move the train along the tracks. ...
Maglev can refer to General Magnetic levitation Magnetic levitation trains This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
This page refers to urban rail mass transit systems. ...
This is an alphabetical list of cities worldwide that have a metro rail system . ...
The Walt Disney World Monorail A monorail is a metro or railroad with a track consisting of a single rail (actually a beam), as opposed to the traditional track with two parallel rails. ...
A mountain railway is a railway that ascends and descends a mountain slope that has a steep grade. ...
Cable Car in San Francisco A San Francisco cable car A cable car or cable railway is a mass transit system using rail cars that are propelled by a continuously moving cable running at a constant speed. ...
Angels Flight, Los Angeles, California with gantlet track configuration A funicular, also called funicular railway or inclined railway, inclined plane, or in the United Kingdom a cliff railway, consists of a system of transport in which cables attach to a tram-like vehicle on rails to move it up and...
The rack rail on a cog railway. ...
A classic Belgian multiple unit of type 74 A multiple unit is a passenger train whose carriages have their own motors, either diesel (DMUs) or electric (EMUs), and do not need to be hauled by a locomotive. ...
A diesel multiple unit can be: a multiple unit powered by a diesel engine; one or more of these form a passenger train; a combination of diesel powered locomotives operating under the control of one engine-driver, coupled together consecutively, usually at the head end of the train, which further...
A people mover is a fully-automated light rail or tram system. ...
Older children can use personal rapid transit without adult help. ...
This page provides an index of articles on Rail transport by country. ...
(wikiproject trains requests any relevant articles!!!) Europe Ireland Great Britain France Spain North America United States Canada Oceania Australia Categories: Rail stubs | Rail transport ...
Rail terminology is a form of technical terminology. ...
Railroad or railway tracks are used on railways, which, together with railroad switches (points), guide trains without the need for steering. ...
There are various types of trains designed for particular purposes, see rail transport operations. ...
Street cars in New Orleans A modern tram in the Töölö district of Helsinki, Finland For modern innovations aimed at increasing the capacity and speed of tramway systems, see light rail. ...
This article is about light rail systems in general. ...
The following is a list of cities that have tram / light-rail systems. ...
Ship Transport is the process of moving people, goods, etc. ...
Self propelled barge carrying bulk crushed stone A barge is a flat-bottomed boat, built mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods. ...
A boat is a watercraft, usually smaller than most ships. ...
A Yamaha Waverunner XL performing a high-speed turn A jetboat is a boat propelled by a jet of water ejected from the back of the craft. ...
Jet ski is the brand name of Kawasaki Heavy Industries personal water craft. ...
For the 1944 movie, see Lifeboat (movie). ...
Punts on the Cam A punt is a flat-bottomed boat with a square-cut bow, designed for use in small rivers or other shallow water. ...
A wherry (meaning boat) is a boat used for carrying cargo on rivers and canals in England. ...
A narrowboat is a boat or small barge used on narrow beam canals in Britain. ...
The Pride of Burgundy, a P&O Ferries car ferry on the Dover-Calais route A ferry is a boat or a ship carrying passengers, and sometimes their vehicles, on short-distance, scheduled services. ...
A horse-drawn boat or tow-boat is a historic boat operating on a canal, pulled by a horse walking on a special road along the canal, the tow-path. ...
Jetfoil Toppi is transporter which connects Yaku Island, Tanegashima Island and Kagoshima port in Japan A hydrofoil is a boat with wing-like foils mounted on struts below the hull. ...
Wooden sailing boat Sailing is motion across a body of water in a sailing ship, or smaller boat, powered by wind. ...
A yacht A yacht was originally defined as a light, fast sailing vessel used to convey important persons. ...
Italian ship-rigged vessel Amerigo Vespucci in New York harbor, 1976. ...
Shipping is the transport of cargo between seaports by ships, typically large steel vessels powered by diesel engines or steam turbine plants. ...
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Currently, the most common technology for space transport is rocket propulsion, which expels matter to provide a net forward thrust. ...
By definition, interplanetary travel is travel between bodies in a given star system. ...
Propulsion method may refer to a number of different articles: For a list of space propulsion methods, see spacecraft propulsion. ...
A Redstone rocket, part of the Mercury program A rocket is a vehicle, missile or aircraft which obtains thrust by the reaction to the ejection of fast moving exhaust gas from within a rocket engine. ...
The Space Shuttle Columbia seconds after engine ignition, 1981 (NASA). ...
A space station is an artificial structure designed for humans to live on in outer space. ...
Ariane 5 lifts off with the Rosetta probe on 2nd of March, 2004. ...
A remote camera captures a close-up view of a Space Shuttle Main Engine during a test firing at the John C. Stennis Space Center in Hancock County, Mississippi Spacecraft propulsion is used to change the velocity of spacecraft and artificial satellites, or in short, to provide delta-v. ...
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)
Crust composition Oxygen 43% Silicon 21% Aluminium 10% Calcium 9% Iron 9% Magnesium 5% Titanium 2% Nickel 0. ...
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in the solar system, named after the Roman god of war (the counterpart of the Greek Ares), on account of its blood red color as viewed in the night sky. ...
Lunar Rover-Manned land vehicle (NASA) The Lunar Rover was a manned land vehicle for transport on the Moon. ...
MER-A (Spirit) is the first of the two Mars Exploration Rover Missions. ...
MER-B (Opportunity) is the second of the two rovers of NASAs Mars Exploration Rover Mission. ...
The Nomad rover is an unmanned vehicle designed as a test for such a vehicle to ride on other planets. ...
The Sojourner Rover is taking its Alpha Proton X-ray Spectrometer measurement of Yogi the Rock (NASA) The Mars Pathfinder, launched in December 4, 1996 by NASA, was a hugely successful Mars exploration probe. ...
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)
The Apollo Lunar Module was the lander portion of the Apollo spacecraft built for the US Apollo program to achieve the transit from Moon orbit to the surface and back. ...
Most transport media in use today are generally fossil fuel powered. ...
A broom is a cleaning tool with a stick, the broomstick. ...
Norman Bel Geddes flying car design (concept model), 1945 It wasnt long after the Wright Brothers made their first successful flight that aviation pioneers began to imagine a hybrid aircraft/automobile. ...
A sled, sledge or sleigh is a vehicle with runners for sliding instead of wheels for rolling. ...
A common portrayal of Santa Claus. ...
Interstellar space travel is unmanned or manned travel between stars, though the term usually denotes the latter. ...
A magic carpet is a carpet that would transport persons who were on it instantaneously or quickly to their destination. ...
A poster of the skycar The Moller Skycar is a theorized personal VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) aircraft: a flying car -- called a volantor by its inventor Paul Moller, who has been attempting to develop such vehicles for many years. ...
The Space Elevator would consist of a cable attached to the surface and reaching outwards into space. ...
Teleportation, or teletransportation, is the process of moving objects from one place to another more or less instantaneously, without using conventional transportation. ...
A transporter on the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) In the Star Trek fictional universe, transporters are teleportation machines. ...
This article is about the vehicle for interstellar travel. ...
Related terms and topics // Institutions Certification In most countries, aircraft have to be certified by the aviation authority to be allowed to fly. ...
The Alternative Transportation Movement is a type of environmental movement that challenges the widespread use of private automobiles and single occupant vehicles or SOVs, mostly in North America, where urban sprawl and automobile use are very widespread. ...
Driving is the controlled operation of a vehicle, which is usually a motor vehicle such as a truck, bus, motorcycle, or car. ...
Vehicles are non-living means of transport. ...
The driver of a car transporter truck prepares to offload Skoda Octavia cars in Cardiff, Wales For further uses of the word truck, see Truck (disambiguation). ...
TheBus, established by Mayor Frank Fasi, is Honolulus only public transit system. ...
A small variety of cars, the most popular kind of automobile. ...
A motorcycle (or motorbike) is a two-wheeled vehicle powered by an engine. ...
This racing bicycle is built using lightweight, shaped aluminum tubing and carbon fiber stays and forks. ...
Phyla Porifera (sponges) Ctenophora (comb jellies) Cnidaria Placozoa Subregnum Bilateria Acoelomorpha Orthonectida Rhombozoa Myxozoa Superphylum Deuterostomia Chordata (vertebrates, etc. ...
In a general sense, locomotion simply means active movement or travel, applying not just to biological individuals. ...
See also This page aims to list articles related to the environment. ...
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- 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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