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
McToad Mows Tiny Island
My Bus
Steam Train, Dream Train
An Accidental Philanthropist by Winsome Dunn McIntoshSapiens by Yuval Noah HarariA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill  BrysonNew Space Capitalism by Rainer ZitelmannQuiet by Susan Cain
Best 21st Century Non-Fiction
2,323 books — 2,105 voters
Sunraycer by Bill TuckeyAssassination of the Corvair by Andrew J. WhiteAn Airplane in Every Garage by Daniel R. ZuckJail on Wheels by Jacqui ShineThe Aeropleustic Art, or Navigation in the Air by the Use of ... by George Pocock
Disposable Transportation
100 books — 1 voter

Voyage on the Great Titanic by Ellen Emerson WhiteThe Girl Who Came Home by Hazel GaynorThe Second Mrs. Astor by Shana AbeFateful by Claudia GrayRaise the Titanic! by Clive Cussler
Fiction about the Titanic
152 books — 204 voters
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
107 books — 88 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
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!
313 books — 72 voters


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Some beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost. ...more
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Getting from La Jolla to Alta Vista State Hospital isn't easy, unless you have a car or a breakdown. April's Father had a breakdown and they got him there in no time. ...more
Tobias Wolff, The Night in Question

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