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  2. Transport - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Timeline of transportation technology - Wikipedia

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    "Drones for parcel and passenger transportation: A literature review." Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives 4 (2020): 100088. online; Knowles, Richard D., Fiona Ferbrache, and Alexandros Nikitas. "Transport's historical, contemporary and future role in shaping urban development: Re-evaluating transit oriented development."

  4. Mode of transport - Wikipedia

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    A mode of transport is a method or way of travelling, or of transporting people or cargo. [1] The different modes of transport include air, water, and land transport, which includes rails or railways, road and off-road transport. Other modes of transport also exist, including pipelines, cable transport, and space transport.

  5. History of transport - Wikipedia

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    The history of transport is largely one of technological innovation. Advances in technology have allowed people to travel farther, explore more territory, ...

  6. Transportation engineering - Wikipedia

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    The engineering of this roundabout in Bristol, England, attempts to make traffic flow free-moving. Transportation engineering or transport engineering is the application of technology and scientific principles to the planning, functional design, operation and management of facilities for any mode of transportation to provide for the safe, efficient, rapid, comfortable, convenient, economical ...

  7. Transport phenomena - Wikipedia

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    In chemical engineering, transport phenomena are studied in reactor design, analysis of molecular or diffusive transport mechanisms, and metallurgy. The transport of mass, energy, and momentum can be affected by the presence of external sources: An odor dissipates more slowly (and may intensify) when the source of the odor remains present.

  8. Means of transport - Wikipedia

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    Means of transport are transport facilities used to carry people or cargo. [1] Examples of means of transport. Space space travel Spacecraft; Air. transport in air ...

  9. Intelligent transportation system - Wikipedia

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    ITS graphical user interface displaying the Hungarian highway network and its data points. An intelligent transportation system (ITS) is an advanced application that aims to provide services relating to different modes of transport and traffic management and enable users to be better informed and make safer, more coordinated, and 'smarter' use of transport networks.