Welcome to Transport Central
Transport can be defined as the movement of people, goods, signals and information from one place to another. The term "transport" is derived from the Latin word trans ("across") and portare ("to carry"). The action of transporting has many aspects like infrastructure, vehicles, and operations.
This site will focus mainly on the vehicles, aircrafts, ships used to transport people or goods. For more information please feel free to visit one of our stations: Air station: Aircrafts | Naval station: Ships
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Air transport is the activity wich involves mechanical flight and the aircrafts used in the process. Aircrafts include fixed-wing and rotary-wing types. Air station | Ships are large, sea-going watercrafts. Naval station |
Car station: Cars | Truck station: Trucks
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A car or an automobile is defined as a passenger vehicle with wheels that has its own propulsion system, a motor. Automobiles run in most cases on roads, usually carry people (from one to seven passengers.) Car station | A truck or lorry is a motor vehicle for transporting goods. Truck station |
Bus station: Buses | Train Station: Trains
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Buses can be defined as large road vehicles wich can carry many people. The term bus is a short version of the Latin Omnibus, (this means "for everyone"). Bus station | Usually in rail transport, a train is a set of connected rail vehicles or a single rail vehicle which is capable of moving along a guideway (railway) to transport passengers or freight. Train station |
Infrastructure
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Transportation in most cases needs an adequate Infrastructure |
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