Transport or transportation is the movement of people and goods from one place to another. The term is derived from the Latin trans ("across") and portare ("to carry").

Aspects of transport

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The 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, waterways, 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, bicycles, buses, 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 (for example, the use of tolls or gasoline taxes).

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.

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Wed, 16 May 2012 16:09:44 -0000
The Bank of England warns that the eurozone is "tearing itself apart" with the "storm" threatening the UK recovery, as it cuts its forecast for growth this year.
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Wed, 16 May 2012 19:07:08 -0000
The Federal Reserve is worried about the impact on the US economy if government spending is cut sharply, minutes of its April meeting show.

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Asia stocks inch higher despite world woes
AP Thu, 24 Mar 2011 01:31:02 -0400
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Toyota to curb N. America production after quake
AP Thu, 24 Mar 2011 01:03:32 -0400
TOKYO -- Toyota Motor Corp., the world's biggest automaker, said Thursday it expects to halt production at some of its factories in North America due to shortages of parts from Japan following a devastating earthquake.
Boeing: US gets the tanker it wanted, nothing more
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Watchdog: FAA improves for-hire aircraft oversight
AP Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:59:01 -0400
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Big BMW sedan adds hybrid
AP Wed, 23 Mar 2011 11:36:54 -0400
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Asia stocks mixed amid uncertainty in Japan, Libya
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