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This is a list of transport related topics.

For more topics there is a collection of transportation related lists and a transportation category.

1 General topics

1.1 Design

• Civil engineering
• Engineering
• Highway engineering
• Transport engineering
• Transport traffic engineering
• Transportation planning
• Urban planning

1.2 Theory

• Logistics
• Navigation
• Queueing theory
• Tourism
• Traffic congestion
• Transport financeTransport finance is the subject that explores how transport networks are paid for. There are a number of issues. The timing of the money required to finance transport is a principal issue. Many projects are " pay-as-you-go", that is infrastructure, which
• Transport economicsTransport economics is a cross-disciplinary study linking civil engineering and economics. Transport economics differs from some other branches of economics in that the assumption of a spaceless, instantaneous economy does not hold. People and goods flow
• Traffic psychologyTraffic psychology is a young expanding field in psychology. Whereas traffic psychology is primarily related to the study of the behaviour of road users and the psychological processes underlying that behaviour (Rothengatter, 1997, 223) as well as to the
• Transport puzzleTransport puzzles are logistical puzzles, which represent real-life transport problems. Description As in shuffling puzzles, no piece is ever lost or added to the board. In contrast to shuffling puzzles, however, in transport puzzles all tokens have to fo
• Travel classA travel class is a quality of accommodation on public transport. The accommodation could be a seat or a cabin for example. Higher travel classes are more comfortable and more expensive. Travel classes are a form of price discrimination. Airlines traditio
• Travel behaviorTravel behavior is the study of what people do over space, and how people use transport. The questions studied in travel behavior are broad, and are very much related to activity analysis and time use studies. How many trips do people make? Where do they
• Urban economics

1.3 History and Geography

• List of transport museumsThis is a list of transport museums throughout the world. Old transportation systems don't disappear, they often become the park and recreational facilities of future generations. Parts of many dismantled trolley systems in the United States for instance,
• Timeline of transportation technology
• U.S. Department of Transportation
• Transportation by country,
• Economy of Earth (transportation section)