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MEANS OF

TRANSPORT
Mode of transport is a term used to distinguish between
different ways of transportation or transporting people or goods.
The different modes of transport are air, water, and 
land transport, which includes Rails or railways, road and 
off-road transport. Other modes also exist, including pipelines, 
cable transport, and space transport.In general, transportation is
used for moving of people, animals, and other goods from one
place to another. Means of transport, on the other hand, refers to
the transport facilities used to carry people or cargo according to
the chosen mode (animal, vehicle, car, airplane, ship, truck, train
and so on and so forth).
A I R T R A N S P O RT I S T H E FA S T E S T M E T H O D O F
T R A N S P O RT, C O M M E R C I A L J E T S R E A C H S P E E D S
OF UP TO 955 KILOMETRES PER HOUR
( 5 9 3   M P H ) A N D A C O N S I D E R A B LY H I G H E R
GROUND SPEED IF THERE IS A JET STREAM
  TA I LW I N D , W H I L E P I S T O N - P O W E R E D G E N E R A L
AV I AT I O N A I R C R A F T M AY R E A C H U P T O 5 5 5
KILOMETRES PER HOUR (345 MPH) OR MORE.
R A I L T R A N S P O R T  I S A M E A N S O F C O N V E YA N C E O F
PA S S E N G E R S A N D G O O D S B Y WAY O F W H E E L E D
V E H I C L E S R U N N I N G O N   R A I L T R A C K, K N O W N A S A
R A I L WAY O R R A I L R O A D . T H E R A I L S A R E A N C H O R E D
P E R P E N D I C U L A R T O R A I L R O A D T R A I N   C O N S I S T S  O F
O N E O R M O R E C O N N E C T E D V E H I C L E S T H AT R U N O N
T H E R A I L S . P R O P U L S I O N I S C O M M O N LY P R O V I D E D B Y
A   L O C O M O T I V E, T H AT H A U L S A S E R I E S O F
U N P O W E R E D C A R S , T H AT C A N C A R R Y PA S S E N G E R S O R
F R E I G H T. T H E L O C O M O T I V E C A N B E P O W E R E D B Y  
S T E A M,   D I E S E L  O R B Y   E L E C T R I C I T Y  S U P P L I E D B Y  
T R A C K S I D E S Y S T E M S.
A road is an identifiable route of travel, usually surfaced with
gravel, asphalt or concrete, and supporting land passage by foot
or by a number of vehicles.
The most common road vehicle in the developed world is the
automobile, a wheeled passenger vehicle that carries its own 
motor. As of 2002, there were 591 million automobiles
worldwide.[citation needed] Other users of roads include motorcars, 
motorcycles, buses, trucks, bicycles and pedestrians, and special
provisions are sometimes made for each of these. For example,
the use of bus lanes give priority for public transport, and 
cycle lanes provide special areas of road for bicycles to use
Water transport is the process of transport that a watercraft, such
as a bart, ship or sailboat, makes over a body of water, such as a
sea, ocean, lake, canal or river. If a boat or other vessel can
successfully pass through a waterway it is known as a navigable
waterway. The need for buoyancy unites watercraft, and makes
the hull a dominant aspect of its construction, maintenance and
appearance. When a boat is floating on the water the hull of the
boat is pushing aside water where the hull now is, this is known
as displacement.

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