Outline of transport
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
- 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
- Private transport
- Public transport
Modes">Mode of transport">Modes and [vehicle]s
- Intermodal passenger transport
Aviation
- Aircraft
- Airship
- Autogyro
- Balloon
- Blimp
- Helicopter
- Human-powered aircraft
- Parachute
- Rocket
- Projectile / Human cannonball
- Supersonic transport
- Zeppelin
Animal-powered transport
Animals domesticated for transport
- Camel
- Dog
- Donkey
- Elephant
- Homing pigeon
- Horse
- Mule
- Llama
- Ox
- Pigeon
- Reindeer
- Yak
Animal-powered vehicles
- Carriage
- Cart
- Chariot
- Horse-drawn boat
- Sled
- Stagecoach
Cable transport
- Aerial tramway
- Cable car
- Chairlift
- * Detachable chairlift
- Elevator
- Funicular
- Gondola lift
- List of aerial lift manufacturers
- Paternoster lift
- chain ferry
Conveyor transport
- Conveyor belt
- Escalator
- Moving walkway
Human-powered transport
- Baby transport
- Bicycle
- Boda-boda
- Buggy
- Filanzane
- Human-powered aircraft
- Ice skate
- Heelies
- Kick scooter
- Litter
- Punt
- Rickshaw
- Roller skates
- Shopping cart
- Skateboard
- Ski
- Snakeboard
- Swimming
- Tricycle
- Unicycle
- Walking
- *Walking bus
- Watercraft rowing
- Wheelbarrow
- Wheelchair
Hybrid transport
- Amphibious vehicle
- Hybrid vehicle
- Moped
- Motorized bicycle
Military transport
[Air force] transport
- Military aircraft
Army transport
- Armoured fighting vehicle
- Armoured personnel carrier
- Jeep
- Landing craft
- Limbers and caissons
- Mega Tank
- Mini-Tank
- German Panzer
Navy transport
- Aircraft carrier
- *Escort carrier
- Naval ship
- PT boat
- Submarine
- *U-boat
- Torpedo boat
- *Naval Tank ship
Ground transportation
Motorized road transport
- Automobile
- * Car body styles
- Auto rickshaw
- Bus
- * Midibus
- * Minibus
- * School bus
- * Trolleybus
- Minivan
- Motorcycle
- Share taxi
- Truck
- * Trucking industry in the United States
- Unimog
- Van
- Sports car
Motorized off-road transport
- All-terrain vehicle
- Engineering vehicle
- Hovercraft
- Ice boat
- Snowmobile
- Sport utility vehicle
- Tank
- Traction engine
- Tractor
Rail transport
- Accessibility
- Glossary of rail terminology
- High-speed rail
- Locomotive
- Maglev
- Monorail
- Mountain railway
- * Cable car
- * Funicular
- * Rack railway
- Multiple unit
- * Diesel multiple unit
- * Electric multiple unit
- People mover
- Personal rapid transit
- Rail tracks
- Rail transport by country
- * History of rail transport by country
- Rapid transit ; see also List of rapid transit systems
- Train
- Tram, light rail ; see also List of tram and light-rail transit systems
Pipeline transport
- Natural gas
- Petroleum
- Pneumatic tube
- Sanitary sewer
- Slurry
- Water
Ship transport
- Barge
- Boat
- * Jet Ski
- * Jetboat
- * Lifeboat
- * Lifeboat
- * Narrowboat
- * Punt
- * Wherry
- Ferry
- *Cable ferry
- Horse-drawn boat
- Hydrofoil
- Sailing
- Ship
- Tank ship
- Yacht
Space transport
- Interplanetary spaceflight
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Space station
- Spacecraft
- * Spacecraft propulsion
Transport on the Moon and Mars
- Lunar rover
- Lunokhod programme
- Nomad rover
- Opportunity rover
- Sojourner
- Spirit rover
Space transport launched from the surface of the Moon
- Ascent stage of Apollo Lunar Module, manned, six times, 1969-1972
Transportation systems
Networks
- Airlines
- Bridges
- Canals
- Foreshoreways
- Freeways
- Greenways
- Highways
- Motorways
- Personal rapid transit
- Pipeline transport
- Railroads
- Rivers
- Roads
- * List of roads and highways
- Cycling infrastructure
- Sidewalks
- Skyways
- Stairways, ladders
- Tunnels
Nodes
- Transport hub
- Airport, Heliport, List of airports
- Air traffic control
- Bus stop and tram stop
- Harbor, Port
- Metro station
- * Cross-platform interchange
- * List of London Underground stations
- * Architecture of the Paris Métro
- Junction, Parking
- Spaceport
- Train station
- * Railway platform
Subsystems
- Air safety
- Containerization
- Continuous track
- Engine
- Foot
- Wheel
History of transport
- 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
- Engineering
- * Civil engineering
- * Highway engineering
- * Traffic engineering
- * Transport engineering
- Fuel efficiency in transportation
- Intelligent transportation system
- Locomotion - self-powered motion of a human, non-human animal or vehicle
- Logistics
- Navigation
- Queueing theory
- Sustainable transport
- Tourism
- * Ecotourism
- Traffic congestion
- Traffic psychology
- Transport economics
- Transport finance
- Transport Logistic
- Transportation forecasting
- Transportation planning
- Travel
- * Travel behavior
- * Travel class
- Urban economics
- Urban planning
Fictional and proposed future transport
- Broomstick
- Flying car
- Flying sled
- Interstellar travel
- Launch loop
- Magic carpet
- Moller Skycar M400
- Space elevator
- Starship
- Teleportation
- Transporter
Transport by region
- United States Department of Transportation
- Worldwide transportation infrastructure
Transport lists