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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. 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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An intermodal container, often called a shipping container, or a freight container, (or simply "container") is a large metal crate designed and built for intermodal freight transport, meaning these containers can be used across different modes of transport – such as from ships to trains to trucks – without unloading and reloading their cargo. Intermodal containers are primarily used to store and transport materials and products efficiently and securely in the global containerized intermodal freight transport system, but smaller numbers are in regional use as well. It is like a boxcar that does not have wheels. Based on size alone, up to 95% of intermodal containers comply with ISO standards, and can officially be called ISO containers. These containers are known by many names: cargo container, sea container, ocean container, container van or sea van, sea can or C can, or MILVAN, or SEAVAN. The term CONEX (Box) is a technically incorrect carry-over usage of the name of an important predecessor of the ISO containers: the much smaller steel CONEX boxes used by the U.S. Army.

Intermodal containers exist in many types and standardized sizes, but 90 percent of the global container fleet are "dry freight" or "general purpose" containers: durable closed rectangular boxes, made of rust-retardant weathering steel; almost all 8 feet (2.4 m) wide, and of either 20 or 40 feet (6.1 or 12.2 m) standard length, as defined by International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standard 668:2020. The worldwide standard heights are 8 feet 6 inches (2.6 m) and 9 feet 6 inches (2.9 m) – the latter are known as High Cube or Hi-Cube (HC or HQ) containers. Depending on the source, these containers may be termed TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units), reflecting the 20- or 40-foot dimensions. (Full article...)

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Image 10-Series Shinkansen, introduced in 1964, triggered the intercity train travel boom. (from Rail transport)
Image 2Bardon 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 3Eastlink - Wellington Rd Northbound Toll Gantry (from Road transport)
Image 4Lichterfelde tram, 1882 (from Rail transport)
Image 5A bullock team hauling wool in Australia (from Transport)
Image 6The engineering of this roundabout in Bristol, United Kingdom, attempts to make traffic flow free-moving.
Image 71940 Piper Cub (from Aviation)
Image 8Elephant transporting a person and some cargo on a highway between Delhi and Jaipur, India (from Transport)
Image 9Incheon International Airport, South Korea
Image 10Lilienthal in mid-flight, Berlin c. 1895 (from Aviation)
Image 11A replica of Trevithick's steam engine at the National Waterfront Museum in Swansea, Wales (from Rail transport)
Image 12The 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 13A dragging equipment unit with hot bearing detector (from Rail transport)
Image 14A Boeing 747 in 1978 operated by Pan Am (from Aviation)
Image 15Technology trends in Air transportation: patent landscape in air transport (from Aviation)
Image 16Human-powered transport remains common in developing countries. (from Transport)
Image 17Customized motorcycle to maximize load capacity. Mobility is important for motorcycles, which are primarily used for transporting light cargo in urban areas. (from Transport)
Image 18Arizona - North America - Southwest - Interstate Highway System (4893585908) (from Road transport)
Image 19Map of world railway network as of 2022 (from Rail transport)
Image 20A Fiat Uno in 2018 (from Transport)
Image 21Air traffic control towers at Amsterdam Airport (from Aviation)
Image 22A USAF Thunderbird pilot ejecting from his F-16 aircraft at an air show in 2003 (from Aviation)
Image 23Delta Airlines Airbus A330-323 taking off at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport in July 2017. (from Aviation)
Image 24The VR Class Sm3 Pendolino high-speed train at the Central Railway Station of Tampere, Finland (from Rail transport)
Image 25European rail subsidies in euros per passenger-km for 2008 (from Rail transport)
Image 26Passengers waiting to board a tube train on the London Underground in the early 1900s (sketch by unknown artist)
Image 27Goods station in Lucerne, Switzerland (from Rail transport)
Image 28German 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)
Image 29A bulk carrier, BW Fjord (from Transport)
Image 30A United Airlines Boeing 777-200 taxiing on the tarmac of Heathrow Airport in January 2011. The Boeing 777 is a popular choice for airlines that operate a wide-body aircraft. (from Aviation)
Image 31Interior view of a high-speed bullet train, manufactured in China (from Rail transport)
Image 32LZ 129 Hindenburg at Lakehurst Naval Air Station, 1936 (from Aviation)
Image 33Main modes of transportation: air, land, water, and space. (from Transport)
Image 34First powered and controlled flight by the Wright brothers, December 17, 1903 (from Aviation)
Image 35Transport is a key component of growth and globalization, such as in Seattle, Washington, United States.
Image 36Tire components -- NHTSA The Pneumatic Tire (from Road transport)
Image 37Freight train with shipping containers in the United Kingdom (from Transport)
Image 38A train in Alaska transporting crude oil in March 2006 (from Rail transport)
Image 39Traffic congestion persists in São Paulo, Brazil, despite the no-drive days based on license numbers.
Image 40A replica of a "Little Eaton Tramway" wagon, 1795; the tracks are plateways. (from Rail transport)
Image 41Bridges, such as Golden Gate Bridge, allow roads and railways to cross bodies of water. (from Transport)
Image 42An Air France Airbus A318 landing at London Heathrow Airport
Image 43A prototype of a Ganz AC electric locomotive in Valtellina, Italy, 1901 (from Rail transport)
Image 44Trans-Alaska Pipeline for crude oil
Image 45NASA's Helios researches solar powered flight. (from Aviation)
Image 46Thomas Telford, the "Colossus of the Roads" in early 19th century Britain. (from Road transport)
Image 47Water vapor contrails left by high-altitude jet airliners. These may contribute to cirrus cloud formation. (from Aviation)
Image 48Intercity Express, a German high-speed passenger train
Image 49Bronocice pot with the earliest known image of a wheeled vehicle in the world, found in Poland (from Transport)
Image 50Tunnels, such as the Tampere Tunnel, allow traffic to pass underground or through rock formations. (from Transport)
Image 51Bulk cargo of minerals on a train (from Rail transport)
Image 52Road transport (from Transport)
Image 53San Diego Trolley over Interstate 8 (from Road transport)
Image 54A local transit bus operated by ACTION in Canberra, Australia
Image 55Automobile ferry in Croatia (from Transport)
Image 56According 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 57An ambulance from World War I (from Transport)
Image 58A Sr1-pulled lumber train crossing the drawbridge along the Savonia railway in Kuopio, Finland (from Rail transport)
Image 59A cast iron fishbelly edge rail manufactured by Outram at the Butterley Company for the Cromford and High Peak Railway in 1831; these are smooth edge rails for wheels with flanges. (from Rail transport)
Image 60The Beijing Subway is one of the world's largest and busiest rapid transit networks. (from Transport)
Image 61Swiss & German co-production: world's first functional diesel–electric railcar 1914 (from Rail transport)
Image 62The Lockheed SR-71 remains unsurpassed in many areas of performance. (from Aviation)
Image 63The Polish transport company Bedmet uses a special vehicle to transport two large silos. (from Road transport)
Image 64Highway D1 in Slovakia. (from Road transport)
Image 65Various modes of transport in Manchester, England (from Transport)
Image 66The Wright brothers' first flight in 1903 (from Transport)
Image 67The Cessna 172 is the most produced aircraft in history (from Aviation)
Image 68A 16th-century mine-cart, an early example of un-powered rail transport, used man power to operate. (from Rail transport)
Image 69An Italian InterCity electric train at Napoli Centrale railway station (from Rail transport)
Image 70The Italian Autostrada dei Laghi ("Lakes Motorway" in the 1950s; now parts of the Autostrada A8 and the Autostrada A9), the first controlled-access highway ever built in the world (from Road transport)
Image 71Modes of road transport in Dublin, 1929 (from Road transport)

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