Transport

Transport or transportation is the movement of people, animals and goods from one location to another. Modes of transport include air, rail, road, water, cable, pipeline and space. The field can be divided into infrastructure, vehicles and operations. Transport is important because it enables trade between persons, which is essential for the development of civilizations.

Transport infrastructure consists of the fixed installations including roads, railways, airways, waterways, canals and pipelines and terminals such as airports, railway stations, bus stations, warehouses, trucking terminals, re
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Last Stop on Market Street
Duck on a Tractor
How to Track a Truck
Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site
Locomotive
Monster Trucks: A Lively Read-Aloud Halloween Story about a Surprising Race
The Airport Book
The Secret Subway
The Wheels on the Bus
A Fire Truck Named Red
Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot
The Mixed-Up Truck
Ride, Fly Guy, Ride!
Where Do Diggers Sleep at Night? (Where Do...Series)
Mousetronaut: Based on a (Partially) True Story (The Mousetronaut Series)
Freight Train
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! (Pigeon, #1)
The Little Engine That Could
Locomotive
Little Blue Truck
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us
Supertruck
The Airport Book
I Stink!
Sheep in a Jeep
Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site
Two Little Trains: A Soft, Beautifully Illustrated Picture Book About a Journey West for Kids (Ages 4-8)
My Car: A Wonderful Story About Vehicles, Colors, Shapes, and Community for Preschoolers
My Bus
The Bus Is for Us!
Alive by Piers Paul ReadMiracle in the Andes by Nando ParradoFlight 232 by Laurence GonzalesThe Mystery of Flight 427 by Bill AdairLost in Shangri-la by Mitchell Zuckoff
Planes - accidents
79 books — 31 voters
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettI Capture the Castle by Dodie SmithThe Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Help by Kathryn StockettJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
What took me so long?
118 books — 30 voters

A Night to Remember by Walter LordTitanic Survivor by Violet JessopThomas Andrews by Shan F. BullockThe Night Lives On by Walter LordTitanic by Alan Hustak
Titanic People
36 books — 17 voters
Cabbie with a Dangerous Mind by Karl WigginsTake Me with You by Brad NewshamHack by Melissa PlautWhite Boy in Watts by Karl WigginsConfessions of a New York Taxi Driver by Eugene Salomon
Cab Driver and Taxi Books
111 books — 10 voters



Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.
Cars will need to be designed with whole new ways of thinking. The design of cars will need to adapt to a whole new transportation system. Each individual car part will evolve as functionalities evolve and the way we utilize cars evolves.
Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

Edward Abbey
Walking is the only form of transportation in which a man proceeds erect - like a man - on his own legs, under his own power. There is immense satisfaction in that.
Edward Abbey, Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

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