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Transport

v. t. 1. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops.
[imp. & p. p. Transported; p. pr. & vb. n. Transporting.]
2. To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish.
3. To carry away with vehement emotion, as joy, sorrow, complacency, anger, etc.; to ravish with pleasure or ecstasy; as, music transports the soul.
[They] laugh as if transported with some fit
Of passion.
- Milton.
We shall then be transported with a nobler . . . wonder.
- South.
n. 1. Transportation; carriage; conveyance.
The Romans . . . stipulated with the Carthaginians to furnish them with ships for transport and war.
- Arbuthnot.
2. A vessel employed for transporting, especially for carrying soldiers, warlike stores, or provisions, from one place to another, or to convey convicts to their destination; - called also transport ship, transport vessel.
3. Vehement emotion; passion; ecstasy; rapture.
With transport views the airy rule his own,
And swells on an imaginary throne.
- Pope.
Say not, in transports of despair,
That all your hopes are fled.
- Doddridge.
4. A convict transported, or sentenced to exile.

Noun 1. transport - something that serves as a means of transportation
Synonyms: conveyance
2. transport - an exchange of molecules (and their kinetic energy and momentum) across the boundary between adjacent layers of a fluid or across cell membranes
3. transport - the commercial enterprise of transporting goods and materials
Synonyms: shipping, transportation
4. transport - a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion; "listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"- Charles Dickens
Synonyms: ecstasy, exaltation, rapture, raptus
5. transport - a mechanism that transport magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder
Synonyms: tape drive, tape transport
Verb 1. transport - move something or somebody around; usually over long distances
2. transport - move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body; "You must carry your camping gear"; "carry the suitcases to the car"; "This train is carrying nuclear waste"; "These pipes carry waste water into the river"
Synonyms: carry
3. transport - hold spellbound
Synonyms: enchant, enrapture, enthral, enthrall, ravish, delight
4. transport - transport commercially
Synonyms: ship, send
5. transport - send from one person or place to another; "transmit a message"
Synonyms: channel, channelise, channelize, transmit, transfer

For other article subjects named transport see transport (disambiguation).

Transport, or transportation in American English, is the movement of people and goods from one place to another. The term is derived from the Latin trans, meaning across, and portare, meaning to carry.

Aspects of transportThe field of transport has several aspects: loosely they can be divided into a triad of infrastructure, vehicles, and operations. Infrastructure includes the transport networks (roads, railways, airways, canals, pipelines, etc.) that are used, as well as the nodes or terminals (such as airports, railway stations, bus stations and seaports). The vehicles generally ride on the networks, such as automobiles, trains, airplanes. The operations deal with the control of the system, such as traffic signals and ramp meters, railroad switches, air traffic control, etc, as well as policies, such as how to finance the system (e.g. use of tolls or gasoline taxes in the case of highway transport).

Broadly speaking, the design of networks are the domain of civil engineering and urban planning, the design of vehicles of mechanical engineering and specialized subfields such as nautical engineering and aerospace engineering, and the operations are usually specialized, though might appropriately belong to operations research or systems engineering.

Modes of transport Modes are combinations of networks, vehicles, and operations, and include walking, the road transport system, rail transport, ship transport and modern aviation.

Categories of transport (Non-human) Animal-powered transport
Aviation
Cable transport
Conveyor transport
Human-powered transport
Hybrid transport
Motorized road transport
Pipeline transport
Rail transport
Ship transport
Space transport
Transport on other planets
Proposed future transport

Transport and communications Transport and communication are both substitutes and complements. Though it might be possible that sufficiently advanced communication could substitute for transport, one could telegraph, telephone, fax, or email a customer rather than visiting them in person, it has been found that those modes of communication in fact generate more total interactions, including interpersonal interactions. The growth in transport would be impossible without communication, which is vital for advanced transportation systems, from railroads which want to run trains in two directions on a single track, to air traffic control which requires knowing the location of aircraft in the sky. Thus, it has been found that the increase of one generally leads to more of the other.

Transport, activities and land use There is a well-known relationship between the density of development, and types of transportation. Density is defined as area of floorspace per area of land. As a rule of thumb, densities of 1.5 or less are well suited to automobiles. Densities of six and above are well suited to trains. The range of densities from about two up to about four is not well served by conventional public or private transport. Many cities have grown into these densities, and are suffering traffic problems. Personal rapid transit might fill this gap.

Land uses support activities. Those activities are spatially separated. People need transport to go from one to the other (from home to work to shop back to home for instance). Transport is a "derived demand," in that transport is unnecessary but for the activities pursued at the ends of trips. Good land use keeps common activities close (e.g. housing and food shopping), and places higher-density development closer to transportation lines and hubs. Poor land use concentrates activities (such as jobs) far from other destinations (such as housing and shopping).

There are economies of agglomeration. Beyond transportation some land uses are more efficient when clustered. Transportation facilities consume land, and in cities, pavement (devoted to streets and parking) can easily exceed 20% of the total land use. An efficient transport system can reduce land waste.

Transport, energy, and the environment Transport is a major use of energy. Most transport burns hydrocarbons. If partially burned, these create pollution. Though vehicles in the United States have been getting cleaner because of environmental regulations, this has been offset by more vehicles and more use of each vehicle. Low-pollution fuels can reduce pollution. The most popular low-pollution fuel at this time is liquified natural gas. Hydrogen is an even lower-pollution fuel, but producing and storing it economically is currently not feasible. Other alternative renewable energy sources such as biodiesel are being researched heavily.

Another tack is to make vehicles more efficient, which reduces pollution and waste by reducing the energy use. If electricity can be gotten to the vehicle, electric motors are the most efficient of all. Another method is to generate energy using fuel cells, which are two to five times as efficient as the heat engines traditionally used in vehicles. A trivial, but very effective method is to streamline ground vehicles, which spend up to 75% of their energy on air-resistance. Another method is to recycle the energy normally lost to braking, but this leads to a more complex vehicle.

See also List of transport topics
Transportation reference tables

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