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Different modes of road transport, on a road in India

Transport (in British English) or transportation (in American English) is the intentional movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to another. Modes of transport include air, land (rail and road), water, cable, pipelines, and space. The field can be divided into infrastructure, vehicles, and operations. Transport enables human trade, which is essential for the development of civilizations.

Transport infrastructure consists of both 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 fuel docks and fuel stations), and seaports. Terminals may be used both for the interchange of passengers and cargo and for maintenance.

Means of transport are any of the different kinds of transport facilities used to carry people or cargo. They may include vehicles, riding animals, and pack animals. Vehicles may include wagons, automobiles, bicycles, buses, trains, trucks, helicopters, watercraft, spacecraft, and aircraft. (Full article...)

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The Port of New York and New Jersey grew from the original harbor at the convergence of the Hudson River and the East River at the Upper New York Bay.

A port is a maritime facility comprising one or more wharves or loading areas, where ships load and discharge cargo and passengers. Although usually situated on a sea coast or estuary, ports can also be found far inland, such as Hamburg, Manchester and Duluth; these access the sea via rivers or canals. Because of their roles as ports of entry for immigrants as well as soldiers in wartime, many port cities have experienced dramatic multi-ethnic and multicultural changes throughout their histories.

Ports are extremely important to the global economy; 70% of global merchandise trade by value passes through a port. For this reason, ports are also often densely populated settlements that provide the labor for processing and handling goods and related services for the ports. Today by far the greatest growth in port development is in Asia, the continent with some of the world's largest and busiest ports, such as Singapore and the Chinese ports of Shanghai and Ningbo-Zhoushan. As of 2020, the busiest passenger port in Europe is the Port of Helsinki in Finland. Nevertheless, countless smaller ports do exist that may only serve their local tourism or fishing industries. (Full article...)

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The following are images from various transport-related articles on Wikipedia.

Image 1LZ 129 Hindenburg at Lakehurst Naval Air Station, 1936 (from Aviation)
Image 2The Cessna 172 is the most produced aircraft in history (from Aviation)
Image 3The Lockheed SR-71 remains unsurpassed in many areas of performance. (from Aviation)
Image 4Cast iron fishbelly edge rail manufactured by Outram at the Butterley Company ironworks for the Cromford and High Peak Railway (1831). These are smooth edgerails for wheels with flanges. (from Rail transport)
Image 5Interior view of a high-speed bullet train, manufactured in China (from Rail transport)
Image 6A prototype of a Ganz AC electric locomotive in Valtellina, Italy, 1901 (from Rail transport)
Image 7Freight train with shipping containers in the United Kingdom (from Transport)
Image 8Transport is a key component of growth and globalization, such as in Seattle, Washington, United States.
Image 9San Diego Trolley over Interstate 8 (from Road transport)
Image 10Trans-Alaska Pipeline for crude oil
Image 11Eastlink - Wellington Rd Nortbound Toll Gantry (from Road transport)
Image 12Lilienthal in mid-flight, Berlin c. 1895 (from Aviation)
Image 130-Series Shinkansen, introduced in 1964, triggered the intercity train travel boom. (from Rail transport)
Image 14Water vapor contrails left by high-altitude jet airliners. These may contribute to cirrus cloud formation. (from Aviation)
Image 15A bullock team hauling wool in Australia (from Transport)
Image 16Intercity Express, a German high-speed passenger train
Image 17A Sr1-pulled lumber train crossing the drawbridge along the Savonia railway in Kuopio, Finland (from Rail transport)
Image 18NASA's Helios researches solar powered flight. (from Aviation)
Image 19Thomas Telford, the "Colossus of the Roads" in early 19th century Britain. (from Road transport)
Image 20The Boeing 737 series of aircraft, as seen here in the United Airways livery, is a popular choice for airlines that operate narrow-body aircraft. (from Aviation)
Image 21A bulk carrier, BW Fjord (from Transport)
Image 22Bridges, such as Golden Gate Bridge, allow roads and railways to cross bodies of water. (from Transport)
Image 23An ambulance from World War I (from Transport)
Image 24Swiss & German co-production: world's first functional diesel–electric railcar 1914 (from Rail transport)
Image 25Road transport (from Transport)
Image 26A replica of a "Little Eaton Tramway" wagon; the tracks are plateways. (from Rail transport)
Image 27Highway D1 in Slovakia. (from Road transport)
Image 2816th-century minecart, an early example of unpowered rail transport (from Rail transport)
Image 29The VR Class Sm3 Pendolino high-speed train at the Central Railway Station of Tampere, Finland (from Rail transport)
Image 30A Fiat Uno in 2018 (from Transport)
Image 31Traffic congestion persists in São Paulo, Brazil, despite the no-drive days based on license numbers.
Image 32Bulk cargo of minerals on a train (from Rail transport)
Image 33Lichterfelde tram, 1882 (from Rail transport)
Image 34Arizona - North America - Southwest - Interstate Highway System (4893585908) (from Road transport)
Image 35A Hot bearing detector with dragging equipment unit (from Rail transport)
Image 36Northwest Airlines Airbus A330-323 (from Aviation)
Image 37An Air France Airbus A318 landing at London Heathrow Airport
Image 38Air traffic control towers at Amsterdam Airport (from Aviation)
Image 39Passengers waiting to board a tube train on the London Underground in the early 1900s (sketch by unknown artist)
Image 40Bardon Hill box in England (seen here in 2009) is a Midland Railway box dating from 1899, although the original mechanical lever frame has been replaced by electrical switches. (from Rail transport)
Image 41Various modes of transport (from Transport)
Image 42A Boeing 747 (from Aviation)
Image 43A local transit bus operated by ACTION in Canberra, Australia
Image 44The Beijing Subway is one of the world's largest and busiest rapid transit networks. (from Transport)
Image 45Tunnels, such as the Tampere Tunnel, allow traffic to pass underground or through rock formations. (from Transport)
Image 46A replica of Trevithick's engine at the National Waterfront Museum, Swansea (from Rail transport)
Image 47Bronocice pot with the earliest known image of a wheeled vehicle in the world, found in Poland (from Transport)
Image 48Goods station in Lucerne, Switzerland (from Rail transport)
Image 49First powered and controlled flight by the Wright brothers, December 17, 1903 (from Aviation)
Image 50The engineering of this roundabout in Bristol, United Kingdom, attempts to make traffic flow free-moving.
Image 51A train in Alaska transporting crude oil (from Rail transport)
Image 52European rail subsidies in euros per passenger-km for 2008 (from Rail transport)
Image 53Tire components -- NHTSA The Pneumatic Tire (from Road transport)
Image 54Human-powered transport remains common in developing countries. (from Transport)
Image 551940 Piper Cub (from Aviation)
Image 56A USAF Thunderbird pilot ejecting from his F-16 aircraft at an air show in 2003 (from Aviation)
Image 57Map of world railway network as of 2022 (from Rail transport)
Image 58According to Eurostat and the European Railway Agency, the fatality risk for passengers and occupants on European railways is 28 times lower when compared with car usage (based on data by EU-27 member nations, 2008–2010). (from Rail transport)
Image 59The Wright brothers' first flight in 1903 (from Transport)
Image 60The Polish transport company Bedmet uses a special vehicle to transport two large silos. (from Road transport)
Image 61Automobile ferry in Croatia (from Transport)
Image 62The Great North Road near High gate on the approach to London before turnpiking. The highway was deeply rutted and spread onto adjoining land. (from Road transport)
Image 63German soldiers in a railway car on the way to the front in August 1914. The message on the car reads Von München über Metz nach Paris ("From Munich via Metz to Paris"). (from Rail transport)

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The Glacier Express from Zermatt to St. Moritz (or Davos Platz [Summer only]) in Switzerland is one of the great train journeys in the world. It is not an "express" in the sense of being a high-speed train (it isn't) but rather in the sense that it provides a one-seat ride from end to end, even though the train travels over several different railroad lines; reputedly it is the slowest "express" in the world. The trip on the Glacier Express is a 7½ hour railway journey across 291 bridges, through 91 tunnels and across the Oberalp Pass at 2,033 metres in altitude. The entire line is metre gauge, and large portions of it use a rack-and-pinion system both for ascending steep grades and to control the descent of the train on the back side of those grades.

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... that United States Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg wrote an essay in 2000 on Bernie Sanders, his future competitor in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries?
... that the route of the former Waycross Air Line Railroad is now an important CSX Transportation line?
... that the National Transportation Safety Board concluded that the probable cause of the 2014 Bedford Gulfstream IV crash was the flight crew's failure to perform the flight-control check before takeoff?
... that the Sanford station was often confused with the Stamford station?
... that a guerrilla garden established atop an abandoned railroad in Long Island City became legally recognized by the MTA?
... that only about a quarter of New York City's 472 subway stations had elevators in 2018, among the lowest accessibility rates of the world's major transit systems?
... that when Charles P. Gross became the chairman of the New York City Board of Transportation, the mayor told him that "if you think war is Hell, then you have something waiting for you on this job"?
... that a section of Mississippi Highway 489 was designated as the Jason Boyd Memorial Highway to commemorate the MDOT superintendent who was killed while removing debris from the road?

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Aerial tramway across the Yangtze river in the Chongqing CBD, China

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