Outline of transport
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
| Part of a series on |
| Transport |
|---|
| Modes |
| Overview |
| Topics |
| Lua error in mw.title.lua at line 392: bad argument #2 to 'title.new' (unrecognized namespace name 'Portal'). |
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
[edit | edit source]- 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
[edit | edit source]- Private transport
- Public transport (public transit)
Types of transport, by mode and vehicles
[edit | edit source]

Aviation
[edit | edit source]- 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
[edit | edit source]Animals domesticated for transport
[edit | edit source]- camel, Arabian, and Bactrian
- carabao
- deer
- dog
- elephant
- equine
- 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
[edit | edit source]- 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
- drag
- 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
- 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
[edit | edit source]- Aerial tramway
- Cable car (railway)
- Chairlift
- Elevator
- Funicular (inclined plane)
- Gondola lift
- List of aerial lift manufacturers
- Paternoster lift
- chain ferry
Conveyor transport
[edit | edit source]- Conveyor belt
- Escalator
- Moving walkway (moving sidewalk, travelator, and the inclined moving sidewalk, a moving ramp)
Convoy
[edit | edit source]Human-powered transport
[edit | edit source]- 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
- Hand-powered vehicles
- Row action-powered vehicles
- Foot-powered vehicles
- Board-based vehicles
- Pushed or pulled vehicles
- Carried vehicles
- Weight-shifting vehicles
- Pedal-powered vehicles
- Human-powered watercraft
- Human-powered amphibious vehicles
- 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)
Hybrid transport
[edit | edit source]Military transport
[edit | edit source]Air force transport
[edit | edit source]Army transport
[edit | edit source]- Armoured fighting vehicle
- Armoured personnel carrier
- Jeep
- Landing craft
- Limbers and caissons (military)
- Mega Tank
- Mini-Tank
- German Panzer
Navy transport
[edit | edit source]Ground transportation
[edit | edit source]Motorized road transport
[edit | edit source]Motorized off-road transport
[edit | edit source]- All-terrain vehicle
- Engineering vehicle
- Hovercraft
- Ice boat
- Snowmobile
- Sport utility vehicle
- Tank
- Traction engine
- Tractor
Rail transport
[edit | edit source]- Accessibility
- Glossary of rail terminology
- High-speed rail
- Locomotive
- Maglev (transport)
- Monorail
- Mountain railway
- Cable car (railway)
- Funicular
- Rack railway (cog railway)
- Multiple unit
- People mover
- Personal rapid transit
- Rail tracks
- 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
[edit | edit source]Ship transport
[edit | edit source]Space transport
[edit | edit source]Transport on the Moon and Mars
[edit | edit source]- Lunar rover (various, crewed and robotic, Moon, 1971โ1973)
- 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
[edit | edit source]- Ascent stage of Apollo Lunar Module, crewed, six times, 1969-1972 (return to Earth in the Apollo program)
Transmission
[edit | edit source]Transportation systems
[edit | edit source]Networks
[edit | edit source]- Airlines
- Bridges
- Canals
- Foreshoreways
- Freeways
- Greenways
- Highways
- Motorways
- Personal rapid transit
- Pipeline transport
- Railroads (also called railways)
- Rivers
- Roads
- Cycling infrastructure
- Sidewalks
- Skyways
- Stairways, ladders
- Tunnels
Nodes
[edit | edit source]- Transport hub
- Airport, Heliport, List of airports
- Air traffic control
- Bus stop (including bus station, bus depot) and tram stop
- Harbor, Port
- Metro station
- Junction (road), Parking
- Spaceport
- Train station
Subsystems
[edit | edit source]History of transport
[edit | edit source]- 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
[edit | edit source]- 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
- Traffic congestion
- Traffic psychology
- Transport economics
- Transport finance
- Transport Logistic (trade show)
- Transportation forecasting
- Transportation planning
- Travel
- Urban economics
- Urban planning
Fictional and proposed future transport
[edit | edit source]- Broomstick
- Flying car (disambiguation)
- Flying sled (see Santa Claus)
- Interstellar travel
- Launch loop
- Magic carpet
- Moller Skycar M400
- Starship
- Teleportation
- Transporter (Star Trek)
Transport by region
[edit | edit source]Transport lists
[edit | edit source]- Aviation articles:
- Aircraft โข Manufacturers โข Engines โข Engine manufacturers โข Weapons โข By date and usage
- Airports: Busiest โข Africa โข Asia โข Europe โข North America โข Oceania โข South America
- History:
- Land transport:
- Automobiles: Manufacturers โข Truck types โข Convoy codes
- Cycles: Bicycle parts โข Bicycle types โข Motorcycle manufacturers
- Rail transport: Heritage railways โข Tram and light-rail transit systems โข Melbourne tram routes โข Metro systems (subways) โข London Underground stations โข Closed London Underground stations โข Melbourne railway stations โข Closed Melbourne railway stations โข Named passenger trains โข UK railway stations
- Road systems:
- Roads and highways: Highways in Australia โข UK motorways โข Interstate Highways in the U.S. โข U.S. Numbered Highways โข State highways in the U.S.
- Maritime: Ships โข Fictional ships โข Sailing boat types โข Marinas
- Space transport: Spacecraft
See also
[edit | edit source]Lua error in mw.title.lua at line 392: bad argument #2 to 'title.new' (unrecognized namespace name 'Portal').
- Index of environmental articles
- Outline of vehicles
- Journal of Transport and Land Use
- List of emerging technologies
- Taxicabs by country
- Public transport
External links
[edit | edit source]Lua error in Module:Sister_project_links at line 396: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).