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!
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee ShetterlyKillers of the Flower Moon by David GrannBorn a Crime by Trevor NoahMarch by John             LewisEinstein by Walter Isaacson
Non-Fiction read in 2017
476 books — 83 voters
Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army by Donald W. EngelsSupplying War by Martin van CreveldThe Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road, 1567-1659 by Geoffrey ParkerOrganizational Supply and Services for Unit Leaders by U.S. Department of the ArmyThe Logistics of the Roman Army at War, 264 BC-235 AD by Jonathan P. Roth
Books for Logisticians
8 books — 3 voters

Bournemouth Boys and Boscombe Girls by Danny WinterThe Last Secret of The Soul by Stephen P.   SmithThe Map of Lost Memories by Kim FayThe Yard by Alex GrecianThornwood House by Anna Romer
Walking Away
84 books — 16 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

Voyage on the Great Titanic by Ellen Emerson WhiteThe Girl Who Came Home by Hazel GaynorThe Second Mrs. Astor by Shana AbeFateful by Claudia GrayRaise the Titanic! by Clive Cussler
Fiction about the Titanic
135 books — 182 voters


Books transport you out of reality and into a dream
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Caroline Criado Pérez
A UK Department for Transport study highlighted the stark difference between male and female perceptions of danger, finding that 62% of women are scared walking in multistorey car parks, 60% are scared waiting on train platforms, 49% are scared waiting at the bus stop, and 59% are scared walking home from a bus stop or station. The figures for men are 31%, 25% , 20 % and 25%, respectively. Fear of crime is particularly high among low-income women, partly because they tend to live in areas with h ...more
Caroline Criado Perez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

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