Monday, January 21, 2008

What is Transportation?

The Transportation is the movement of people and goods from one place to another. The word is derived from the portare ("to carry") and Latin Trans ("across"). Industries which have the business of providing equipment, actual transport, transport of people or goods and services used in transport of goods or people frame a huge broad and vital segment of most national economies, and are jointly referred to as transport industries.

The field of transport has numerous aspects: loosely they can be divided into a triad of infrastructure, operations and vehicles. Infrastructure contains the transport networks (roads, railways, airways, waterways, canals, pipelines, etc.) that are used, with the nodes or terminals (like airports, railway stations, bus stations and seaports). The vehicles normally traverse on the networks, like automobiles, bicycles, buses, trains, and aircrafts.

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