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Animal-powered Aviation Human-powered Ship Rail Road Transport title, both photos from sxc. ... (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. ... First flight, December 17, 1903 Aviation or air transport refers to the activities surrounding human flight and the aircraft industry. ... Human-powered transport is transport powered by human muscle. ... Ship Transport is the process of moving people, goods, etc. ... Rail transport is the transport of passengers and goods along railways or railroads. ... Disruptions in organized traffic flow can create delays lasting hours. ...

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Mode of transport (or means of transport or transport mode or transport modality or form of transport) is a general term for the different kinds of transport facilities that are often used to transport people or cargo. This is a list of transport related topics. ... Cargo is a term used to denote goods or produce being transported generally for commercial gain, usually on a ship, plane, train or truck. ...

Where more than one mode of transport is used for a journey, or for transport analysis, the journey can be described as multi-modal. Journey can refer to: Journey (band), an American rock band. ...

Components of a mode of transport

A transport mode is a combination of the following:

• Traffic infrastructure: traffic routes, networks, nodes (stations, terminals), etc.
• Vehicles and containers: trucks, wagons, ships, aircraft and trains.
• A stationary or mobile workforce
• Propulsion system and power supply (traction)
• Operations: driving, management, traffic signals, railway switching, air traffic control, etc.

A transport network, or transportation network in American English, is typically a network of roads, streets, pipes, aqueducts, power lines, or nearly any structure which permits either vehicular movement or flow of some commodity. ... See: Station (telecommunication) Radio station Television station Station (network) Primary station Control station Slave station Station (Australian ranch) (the Australian equivalent of the North American Ranch) Public transport railway station or train station metro station (underground or elevated ) bus station Ground station Space station Gas station Power station (see Battersea... The term Terminal can be used in several way and includes various topics: Usually terminal means forming or pertaining to an end. ... Vehicles are non-living means of transportation. ... Thousands of shipping containers at the terminal at Port Elizabeth, New Jersey A container ship being loaded by a portainer crane in Copenhagen Harbour A container freight train in England Part of an American doublestack container train Containerization is a system of intermodal cargo transport using standard ISO containers that... The driver of this DAF tractor with an auto-transport semi-trailer prepares to offload Škoda Octavia cars in Cardiff, Wales For other meanings, see Truck (disambiguation). ... A wagon (in old British English waggon) is a wheeled vehicle, ordinarily with four wheels, usually pulled by an animal such as a horse, mule or ox, which was used for transport of heavy goods in the past. ... Italian ship-rigged vessel Amerigo Vespucci in New York Harbor, 1976 A ship is a large, sea-going watercraft, usually with multiple decks. ... Airbus A380 An aircraft is any machine capable of atmospheric flight. ... For other uses, see Train (disambiguation). ... The workforce is the labour pool in employment. ... Propulsion method may refer to a number of different articles: For a list of space transport methods, see spacecraft propulsion. ... A power supply (sometimes known as a power supply unit or PSU) is a device or system that supplies electrical or other types of energy to an output load or group of loads. ... Traction usually refers to friction between a drive member and the surface it runs on, where friction is used to provide motion. ... Driving is the controlled operation of a vehicle, which is usually a motor vehicle such as a truck, bus, or car. ... Management (from Old French ménagement the directing, from Latin manu agere to lead by the hand) characterises the process of leading and directing all or part of an organisation, often a business, through the deployment and manipulation of resources (human, financial, material, intellectual or intangible). ... Traffic lights will sometimes differ where there are several lanes of traffic. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Railroad switch. ... 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. ...

Examples of modes of transport

• Animal powered transport

• Aviation
  • Aircraft
  • Airship
  • Balloon (aircraft)
• Human-powered transport
  • Cyclist (Cycling)
  • Pedestrian (walking)
• Ship transport
  • Boat
  • Ship
  • Submarine
• Rail transport
  • Metro
  • Tram
  • Train
• Road transport
  • Bus
  • Car
  • Motorbike
  • Truck
• Other
  • Cable car
  • Escalator
  • Lift
  • People mover
  • Spacecraft

-1... First flight, December 17, 1903 Aviation or air transport refers to the activities surrounding human flight and the aircraft industry. ... Airbus A380 An aircraft is any machine capable of atmospheric flight. ... USS Akron (ZRS-4) in flight, November 2, 1931 An airship is a buoyant aircraft that can be steered and propelled through the air. ... Balloons are a type of lighter than air aircraft that remain aloft due to their buoyancy. ... Human-powered transport is transport powered by human muscle. ... A cyclist is a person who engages in cycling whether as a sport or rides a bicycle for recreation or transportation. ... This road bicycle is built using lightweight, shaped aluminium tubing and carbon fiber stays and forks. ... Look up Pedestrian in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Woman walking downstairs Walk redirects here. ... Ship Transport is the process of moving people, goods, etc. ... Some pleasure craft boats in a harbor in Miami Beach, Florida. ... Italian ship-rigged vessel Amerigo Vespucci in New York Harbor, 1976 A ship is a large, sea-going watercraft, usually with multiple decks. ... German UC-1 class World War I submarine A model of Gunter Priens Unterseeboot 47 (U-47), German WWII Type VII diesel-electric hunter-killer (SSK) submarine Inside of the Argonaute, showing the typical obstructed, tiny space of a post-WWII diesel attack submarine. ... Rail transport is the transport of passengers and goods along railways or railroads. ... Metro is: a general term, synonymous with rapid transit, subway or underground, for an urban underground rail public transit system (see list of rapid transit systems); any of several specific public transport systems, including: Bi-State Development Agency in Missouri and Illinois, d/b/a Metro since 2003 Buffalo Metro... TW2000 car in Hanover Volkswagen Cargo-Tram in Dresden on a section of grassed track. ... For other uses, see Train (disambiguation). ... Disruptions in organized traffic flow can create delays lasting hours. ... An early motorized bus - a Benz truck modified by Netphener company (1895) A bus is a large automobile intended to carry numerous persons in addition to the driver and sometimes a conductor. ... CAR is a three letter-acronym, that may stand for: Canadian Airborne Regiment Canadian Aviation Regulations Canonical anticommutation relation Caribou Municipal Airport (IATA airport code CAR) in Caribou, Maine, United States Center Axis Relock, a new shooting technique developed by Paul Castle Central African Republic Computer-assisted reporting Cordillera Administrative... A motorcycle (or motorbike) is a two-wheeled vehicle powered by an engine. ... The driver of this DAF tractor with an auto-transport semi-trailer prepares to offload Å koda Octavia cars in Cardiff, Wales For other meanings, see Truck (disambiguation). ... The Other or constitutive other is a key concept in continental philosophy, opposed to the Same. ... A cable car is any of a variety of transportation systems relying on cables to pull vehicles along or lower them at a steady rate, or a vehicle on these systems. ... Escalators at Westminster tube station, London. ... There are multiple definitions of lift: Lift, an aerodynamic force. ... A people mover is a fully-automated light rail or tram system. ... A spacecraft is designed to leave Earths atmosphere and operate beyond the surface of the Earth in outer space. ...

Worldwide comparison of the most important transport modes

Worldwide, the most widely used modes for passenger transport are the Automobile (16,000 bn passenger km), followed by Buses (7,000), Air (2,800), Railways (1,900), and Urban Rail (250) [1].

The most widely used modes for freight transport are Sea (40,000 bn ton km), followed by Road (7,000), Railways (6,500), Oil pipelines (2,000) and Inland Navigation (1,500) [2].

See also

• Dual mode transit
• Intermodal transport
• Transshipment
• Transportation hub
• Transport network
• Modal shift
• Mode choice