List of transport topics

This is a list of transport related topics.

For more topics there is a collection of transportation related lists and a .

General topics

Design

* Civil engineering
* Engineering
* Highway engineering
* Transport engineering
* Transport traffic engineering
* Transportation planning
* Urban planning

Theory

* Ecotourism
* Logistics
* Navigation
* Queueing theory
* Tourism
* Traffic congestion
*Traffic forecasting
* Traffic psychology
* Transport economics
* Transport finance
* Transport puzzle
* Travel behavior
* Travel class
* Urban economics

History and geography

* List of transport museums
* Timeline of transportation technology
* U.S. Department of Transportation
* Transportation by country,
* Economy of Earth (transportation section)

Ownership

* Private transport
* Public transport (also called public transit)

= Technologies =

* Caterpillar track
* Containerization
* Engine
* Foot
* Wheel

Networks

External links

* Airline
* Bridge
* Canal
* Freeway
* Highway
* Motorway
* Personal rapid transit
* Pipeline
* Railroad (also called railway)
* River
* Road, List of roads and highways
* Sidewalk
* Skyway
* Staircase, ladder
* Tunnel

Nodes

* Airport, Heliport, List of airports
* Air traffic control
* Bus stop (including bus station, bus depot) and tram stop
* Harbor, Seaport, List of seaports
* Metro station
** Cross-platform interchange
** List of London Underground stations
** Stations of the Paris Metro
* Road junction, Parking
* Spaceport
* Railway station
** Terminal station (Terminus)
** Railway platform

See also Intermodal passenger transport.

= Modes and vehicles =

Aviation

* Aircraft (Airplane, Plane)
* Airship
* Autogyro
* Balloon
* Blimp
* Dirigible (see Airship)
* Helicopter
* Human-powered aircraft
* Parachute (downward air transport only)
* Supersonic transport
* Zeppelin

Non-human animal-powered transport

Non-human animal power sources

* Burro
* Camel
* Dog
* Donkey
* Elephant
* Homing pigeon
* Horse
* Mule
* Llama
* Ox
* Reindeer
* Yak

Non-human animal-powered vehicles

* Carriage
* Cart
* Chariot
* Horse-drawn boat
* Sled
* Stagecoach

Cable transport

* Aerial tramway
* Cable car (railway)
* Chairlift
* Detachable chairlift
* Elevator
* Paternoster
* Gondola lift
* Funicular (Inclined plane)
* List of aerial lift manufacturers

Conveyor transport

* Conveyor belt
* Escalator
* Moving sidewalk (moving walkway, travelator), including the inclined moving sidewalk (moving ramp)

Human-powered transport

* Bicycle
* Bodaboda
* Baby transport
* Buggy, cart
* Human-powered aircraft
* Ice skate
* Punt (boat)
* Rickshaw
* Rowing
* Roller skate
* Kick scooter
* Shopping cart
* Skateboard
* Snakeboard
* Unicycle
* Wheelbarrow
* Wheelchair

Hybrid transport

* Amphibian vehicle
* Moped
* Ciao Piaggio
* motorcycle-bicycle
* Power-assisted bicycle

Military transport

= Airforce transport =

* Military aircraft

Army transport

* Armoured fighting vehicle
* Armoured personnel carrier
* Gun carriage
* Jeep
* Landing craft
* Mega Tank
* Silly Putty

Navy transport

* Naval ship
* Aircraft carrier
**Escort aircraft carrier
* PT boat
* Submarine
**U-boat
* Torpedo boat

Motorized road transport

* Automobile or Car
** Car body styles
* Auto rickshaw
* Bus
* Trolleybus
* Minivan
* Motorcycle
* School bus
* Truck
* Unimog
* Van
* Share taxi

Motorized off-road transport

* All-terrain vehicle
* Construction equipment
* Hovercraft
* Ice yacht
* sports-utility/four-wheel-drive vehicles
* Snowmobile
* Tank
* Tractor
* Traction engine

Pipeline transport

* Natural gas
* Oil
* Pneumatic tube
* Sewer
* Slurry
* Water

Rail transport

* High-speed rail
* Low floor
* Locomotive
* Maglev train
* Monorail
* Mountain railway
** Cable car or Funicular
** Rack railway (Cog railway)
* Multiple unit
** Diesel multiple unit
* People mover
* Personal rapid transit
* Rail transport by country
** History of rail transport by country
* Rail terminology
* Rail tracks
* Rapid transit (metro, underground, subway); see also List of rapid transit systems
* Train
* Tram, light rail (streetcar, trolley); see also List of light-rail transit systems

Ship transport

* El Nino
* Barge
* Boat
** Jetboat
** Jet ski
** Lifeboat and liferaft
** Punt
** Wherry
** Narrowboat
* Ferry
* Horse-drawn boat
* Hydrofoil
* Sailing Yacht
* Ship
* Shipping
* Tanker

Space transport

* spaceships that go wee-woo
* Propulsion method
* Rocket
* Space shuttle
* Space station
* Spacecraft, Spacecraft propulsion

Transport on the Moon and Mars

*Lunokhod
*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)

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)

Fictional and proposed future transport

* Broomstick
* Flying car
* Flying sled (see Santa Claus)
* Interstellar travel
* Launch loop
* Magic carpet
* Skycar
* Space elevator
* Teleportation
* Transporter (Star Trek)
* Starship

Related terms and topics

* Air safety
* Alternative Transportation Movement
* Driving involves controlling a vehicle, usually a motor vehicle such as a truck, bus, or car. For motorcycles, bicycles and animals it is called riding.
* Locomotion - self-powered motion of a human, non-human animal or vehicle
* Transport efficiency

See also

*list of environment topics

External links

* [http://www.its.berkeley.edu/ Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Berkeley]
* [http://transportation.trarevo.com/ Listing of Logistic companies]
* [http://tu-dresden.de/die_tu_dresden/fakultaeten/vkw?set_language=en&cl=en|"Friedrich List" Faculty of Transportation and Traffic Sciences, Dresden - Germany]