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!: The Beloved Animated Series―A Funny Garbage Truck Bedtime Story for Preschoolers (Ages 0-4)
Two Little Trains: A Soft, Beautifully Illustrated Picture Book About a Journey West for Kids (Ages 4-8)
Sheep in a Jeep
Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site
My Car: A Wonderful Story About Vehicles, Colors, Shapes, and Community for Preschoolers
Steam Train, Dream Train
McToad Mows Tiny Island
The Fabulous Flying Machines of Alberto Santos-Dumont by Victoria GriffithPlanes by Byron BartonThe Boy and the Airplane by Mark PettI Love Planes! by Philemon SturgesNight Flight by Robert Burleigh
Picture Books About Airplanes
81 books — 16 voters
Buses Are a Comin' by Charles PersonDon't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! by Mo WillemsRosa by Nikki GiovanniLast Stop on Market Street by Matt de la PeñaThe Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart
Bus Rider
267 books — 24 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
47 books — 23 voters

The Little Engine That Could by Watty PiperTootle by Gertrude CramptonThe Little Red Caboose by Marian PotterThe Girl on the Train by Paula HawkinsFreight Train by Donald Crews
Getting there - bus, taxi, train
194 books — 20 voters


Umberto Eco
[...] there is one inexorable law of technology, and it is this: when revolutionary inventions become widely accessible, they cease to be accessible. Technology is inherently democratic, because it promises the same services to all; but it works only if the rich are alone using it. When the poor also adopt technology, it stops working. A train used to take two hours to go from A to B; then the motor car arrived, which could cover the same distance in one hour. For this reason cars were very expe ...more
Umberto Eco

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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