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Transport or transportation is the movement of people and goods from one place to another. The term is derived from the Latin trans ("across") and portare ("to carry").
Aspects of transport
The field of transport has several aspects: loosely they can be divided into a triad of infrastructure, vehicles, and operations. Infrastructure includes the transport networks (roads, railways, airways, waterways, canals, pipelines, etc.) that are used, as well as the nodes or terminals (such as airports, railway stations, bus stations and seaports). The vehicles generally ride on the networks, such as automobiles, bicycles, buses, trains, airplanes. The operations deal with the control of the system, such as traffic signals and ramp meters, railroad switches, air traffic control, etc, as well as policies, such as how to finance the system (for example, the use of tolls or gasoline taxes).
Broadly speaking, the design of networks are the domain of civil engineering and urban planning, the design of vehicles of mechanical engineering and specialized subfields such as nautical engineering and aerospace engineering, and the operations are usually specialized, though might appropriately belong to operations research or systems engineering.
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Innovative Transportation Technologies - By Jerry Schneider. Classified descriptions, diagrams, over 40 transport technologies: planned, operating; electric and not; manual, automated; 1-/2-mode; freight/people movers (PRT); top mount, suspended; mono-/bi-rails, automated highways; fora, conference reports.
Meta Description: [ Includes descriptions and illustrations of more than 100 innovative,
emerging, electric urban transportation technologies from around the world. Some are operational.
Others are under development or conceptual ]
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1998 Transportation Engineering and Safety Conference - Four tracks of parallel sessions, transport technology exhibit, optional professional workshops. Held at Pennsylvania State University, 11-13 December 2002.
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Advanced Transit Association - ATRA promotes developing technologies such as Personal Rapid Transit (PRT), identifies problems and ways advanced systems can help solve them. Descriptions, studies (download, paper), videos, PRT Model Project, calendar, links.
Alexander Communications Group, Inc. - Offers several newsletters on emerging energy and transportation technology, including intelligent transportation systems (ITS), alternative vehicles, and fuel cell research and development. Some free content.
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Automated People Mover Standards Committee - An organization developing standards for automated people movers. Includes publications, directives, and meeting notes.
AWAKE - Pipeline project for a system to assess driver vigilance and give off a warning, if need be. Lists consortium members and purpose of the project. Based in Europe.
Meta Description: [ Projektbeschreibung des EU-Projektes AWAKE ]
Car Innovations - How cars might appear in the future.
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Citizens for Personal Rapid Transit: CPRT - Non-profit, grassroots, volunteer organization, begun in Minneapolis, MN. Goals: provide information on PRT features and benefits; promote PRT as effective option to meet transport needs. News, calendar, resources, links.
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I.N.S.E.A.N. - Description of research facilities and programs. Includes publications.
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Planning Rural Roads - Designed to help planners and managers of rural roads networks in developing countries. Covers topics such as selection, design, funding, and maintenance.
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Poma Otis - Supplies and installs automated people movers. Includes products, specifications, and existing systems.
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Predit - French national program in land transport research and innovation. Information about strategic program efforts to improve performance relative to energy, noise, pollution and environment.
SMRTram - Horizontal pedestrian mobility system to stretch average walking access distances along selected corridors. Similar to light rail and buses, but with rubber tires on a concrete guideway.
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The ADVISORS project - Action for advanced Driver assistance and Vehicle control systems Implementation, Standardisation, Optimum use of the Road network and Safety. Includes project description and reports, a virtual driving lab, and related links.
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The National Transportation Library - Provides online access to documents and databases covering all aspects of transportation in the U.S. Material is contributed by public and private organizations around the country and access is free.
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Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) - Searchable database of articles produced and maintained by the Transportation Research Board at the National Academy of Sciences.
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