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!
Driving with Dead People by Monica HollowaySix Feet Under or Up in Smoke by Jim EamesA Tale Du Mort by Katrina MonroeGood Mourning by Elizabeth MeyerThe Country Undertaker by Jim Eames
Hearse
7 books — 3 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

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha ChristieHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Railway Children by E. NesbitThe Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg4 by Agatha Christie
All Aboard! Books with Trains In It!
308 books — 68 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

The Paris Express by Emma DonoghueFaces in the Crowd by Valeria LuiselliOrdinary Time by Cathy RentzenbrinkIn einem Zug by Daniel GlattauerThe Woman in Carriage 3 by Alison  James
Inside Trains
16 books — 5 voters


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L'automobile coûte chaque année dix fois plus d'hommes aux U.S.A. que la guerre du Vietnam, autant qu'une guerre mondiale ; et comme la guerre, la bagnole tue d'abord les jeunes : dans les pays développés, elle est la première cause de mortalité entre dix-huit et trente ans. Imagine-t-on la S.N.C.F. ou Air-France présentant un bilan annuel, sans cesse accru, de douze mille tués et cent mille blessés ? Plus personne n'oserait prendre le train ou l'avion, et le peuple indigné mettrait le feu au mi ...more
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