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
Types of transport, by mode and vehicles
- Intermodal passenger transport
Aviation
- Fixed-wing 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, Arabian, and Bactrian
- carabao
- deer
- dog
- * sled dog
- * Dogcart
- elephant
- equine
- * donkey
- * hinny
- * horse
- ** riding horse
- ** packhorse
- ** driving horse
- ** draft horse
- * mule
- llama
- moose
- ostrich
- ox
- reindeer
- sheep
- yak
- Turtles were used for riding as a sport in early 20th-century Australia
- Dolphins
- Pigeon
Animal-powered vehicles
- barge
- berlin
- Brougham
- carriage
- cart
- chaise
- charabanc
- chariot
- coach
- Conestoga wagon
- curricle
- dogcart
- drag
- dray
- ferry
- float
- gig
- governess cart
- Hansom cab
- horsecar
- horse-drawn boat
- horse-powered boat
- Experiment
- howdah
- litter
- mail coach
- Michigan logging wheels
- omnibus
- bullock cart
- pantechnicon van
- phaeton
- postchaise
- pulka
- railway
- rockaway
- sled
- sledge
- sleigh
- stagecoach
- streetcar
- sulky
- tangah
- team boat
- telega
- towboat
- travois
- trolley
- van
- vardo
- Victoria
- vis-a-vis
- wagon
- wain
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
Convoy
- caravan
- * Camel train
Human-powered transport
- Human-powered land vehicles
- * Pedal-powered vehicles
- ** Bicycle
- ** Bicycle trailer
- ** BMX bike
- ** Boneshaker
- ** City bicycle
- ** Cold-weather biking
- ** Cruiser bicycle
- ** Cycle rickshaw
- ** Cyclo-cross bicycle
- ** Fatbike
- ** Flat bar road bike
- ** Folding bicycle
- ** Freight bicycle
- ** Hybrid bicycle
- ** Mountain bike
- ** Party bike
- ** Pedelec
- ** Penny-farthing
- ** Porteur bicycle
- ** Prone bicycle
- ** Quadracycle
- ** Recumbent bicycle
- ** Road bicycle
- ** Roadster
- ** Safety bicycle
- ** Small wheel bicycle
- ** Tandem bicycle
- ** Touring bicycle
- ** Trailer bike
- ** Tricycle
- ** Unicycle
- ** Utility bicycle
- ** Velocar
- ** Velocipede
- ** Velomobile
- * Treadle-powered vehicles
- ** Treadle bicycle
- * Hand-powered vehicles
- ** Handcar
- ** Handcycle
- ** Hobcart
- ** Wheelchair
- * Row action-powered vehicles
- ** Rowing cycle
- * Foot-powered vehicles
- ** Balance bicycle
- ** Dandy horse
- ** Kick scooter
- ** Inline skating
- ***** skates
- ** Roller skating
- ***** skates
- ** Walking
- * Board-based vehicles
- ** Brakeboard
- ** Caster board
- ** Freeboard
- ** Freeline skates
- ** Longboard
- ** Skateboard
- ** Snakeboard
- ** Street luge
- * Pushed or pulled vehicles
- ** Baby transport
- ** Baggage cart
- ** Cart
- ** Hand truck
- ** Pulled rickshaw
- ** Shopping cart
- ** Stairclimber
- ** Stretcher
- ** Wheelbarrow
- * Carried vehicles
- ** Litter/sedan chair
- ** Scoop stretcher
- * Weight-shifting vehicles
- ** Trikke
- Human-powered watercraft
- * Canoe
- * Hydrocycle
- * Hydrofoil
- * Kayak
- * Paddleboarding
- * Pedalo
- * Rowing
- Human-powered amphibious vehicles
- * Amphibious cycle
- Human-powered snow and ice vehicles
- * Alpine touring skis
- * Cold-weather biking
- * Crampons
- * Cross-country skis
- * Fatbiking
- * Ice skates
- * Kicksled
- * Sled
- * Snowboard
- * Snowshoes
- * Telemark skis
- Aircraft
- * Helicopter
- * Ornithopter
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
- * Campervan
- * Trailer
- ** Caravan
- 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, crewed, six times, 1969-1972
Transmission
- Power transmission
- * Electric power transmission
- Telecommunication
- * Transmission
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
- Infrastructure
- Locomotion - self-powered motion of a human, non-human animal or vehicle
- Logistics
- Navigation
- Queueing theory
- Resource management
- 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
- Starship
- Teleportation
- Transporter
Transport by region
- United States Department of Transportation
- Worldwide transportation infrastructure
Transport lists