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!
Technological Slavery by Theodore John KaczynskiAnti-Tech Revolution by Theodore John KaczynskiIndustrial Society and Its Future by Theodore John KaczynskiCollapse by Jared DiamondPapyrus by John Gaudet
Green Politics
104 books — 87 voters
La Grande Arche by Laurence CosséBuilding and Dwelling by Richard SennettConcrete Vaulted Construction in Imperial Rome-FTPB for Pre-S... by Lynne LancasterBuilding Atlanta by Herman J. RussellConcrete and Culture by Adrian Forty
Best Books about Building Cities
39 books — 2 voters

Traffic by Tom VanderbiltThe Box by Marc LevinsonThe Works by Kate AscherThe Big Necessity by Rose GeorgeInfrastructure by Brian Hayes
Underpinnings
140 books — 44 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 — 23 voters


Ben Elton
A society sufficiently sophisticated to produce the internal combustion engine has not had the sophistication to develop cheap and efficient public transport?' ‘Yes, boss... it’s true. There’s hardly any buses, the trains are hopelessly underfunded, and hence the entire population is stuck in traffic ...more
Ben Elton, Gridlock

Elly Blue
We have a very large cultural blind spot when it comes to cars. Using the roads by any means is one of the most dangerous things you will do on a daily basis; in a car, you are not very much less at risk, but you become a tremendous danger to others.
Elly Blue, Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save The Economy

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