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Transportation types
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Transport or transportation is the movement of people, animals and goods from one location to another. Modes of transport include air, rail, road, water, cable, pipeline and space. The field can be divided into infrastructure, vehicles and operations. Transport is important because it enables trade between people, which is essential for the development of civilizations.
Transport infrastructure consists of the fixed installations including roads, railways, airways, waterways, canals and pipelines and terminals such as airports, railway stations, bus stations, warehouses, trucking terminals, refueling depots (including fueling docks and fuel stations) and seaports. Terminals may be used both for interchange of passengers and cargo and for maintenance.
traveling on these networks may include automobiles, bicycles, buses, trains, trucks, people, helicopters, watercraft, spacecraft and aircraft.Operations deal with the way the vehicles are operated, and the procedures set for this purpose including financing, legalities and policies. In the transport industry, operations and ownership of infrastructure can be either public or private, depending on the country and mode.
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| Plane |
Passenger transport may be public, where operators provide scheduled services, or private. Freight transport has become focused on containerization, although bulk transport is used for large volumes of durable items. Transport plays an important part in economic growth and globalization, but most types cause air pollution and use large amounts of land. While it is heavily subsidized by governments, good planning of transport is essential to make traffic flow and restrain urban sprawl.
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Scientific and technical uses
Transport of molecules or ions across cell membranes or via the bloodstream, including active transport and passive transport.
Transport of electrons in electron transport chainsTransport phenomena, in physics, mechanisms by which particles or quantities move from one place to anotherTransport, in computer networking, the function of issuing and responding to service requests in transport layers and associated transport protocolsTransport (recording), a device that handles a storage medium and extracts or records the information from and to itTransport of products of erosion, e.g. by a river, prior to their deposition as a sedimentary rockMPEG transport stream, a communications protocol for audio, video, and dataTransport (SAP), a process of moving some or all the modifications from one SAP installation to anotherTransport of blood and other bodily fluids in the circulatory systemTransport layer, the fourth layer of the OSI model for networking.
