Transportation

The transport system is the totality of all social, economic and technical institutions, facilities or principles that are required for the creation of a change of location ( transport ), provided this takes place outside of the company. Within companies, one speaks of funding .

definition

The transport system aims to change the spatial existence of

• Goods (goods, services, capital, energy)
• People (including tourism )
• Messages (on material and non-material carriers)

Transport is an expression of the prevailing mobility culture. It includes e.g. B.

• the economic sector "traffic and transport" ( traffic industry ) with the companies whose business activity consists in the creation of mobility or transport services (e.g. passenger transport , goods transport , postal services , telecommunications ) as well as related sectors such as B. the transport engineering, vehicle construction and repair u. (cf. public transport ), whereby the communications system is partially understood as a component of the transport system, even if the communications system now forms a complex that is largely independent of the transport system,
• the transport policy and traffic management,
• the technical and organizational means to implement traffic processes ( modes of transport or modes of transport ), i.e. rail-bound traffic / railroad , road traffic or motor traffic , air traffic , shipping , line traffic , etc. Ä.
• the social aspects, such as B. Mobility behavior ( spatial mobility ),
• the Traffic Sciences and its institutions and related areas ( traffic construction , traffic operation technology , traffic engineering , transportation planning , traffic psychology , traffic safety beings , traffic sociology , traffic engineering , transport economics , etc.)
• non-technical or non-public traffic as well as other types of traffic (e.g. motorized individual traffic , internal transport / works traffic / commercial traffic , pedestrian and bicycle traffic).

A quantitative investigation of the traffic system can be carried out with the market value .

Transportation in everyday language

In contrast to the technical term "transport", the technical term traffic describes the process of relocating goods, people and messages. The difference: the traffic system is a necessary prerequisite for traffic processes to run. If, however, the colloquial language of "traffic in the Federal Republic" or "traffic in the 19th century" is used, it usually refers to transport. So: traffic is the colloquial short form of the technical term "traffic", but not a synonym.

If the process of change of location takes place in order to change the spatial existence of people and goods, one speaks of the transport system or the transport process.

In the GDR, which was called the Ministry of Transport "Ministry of Transport".

See also

• traffic system
• University of Transportation
• Distribution of traffic

Web links

Research and training

• Faculty of Traffic and Machine Systems, TU Berlin
• Chair for Transportation - Planning and Management, Ruhr University Bochum
• Institute for Transport at the Technical University of Darmstadt
• Institute for Transport Logistics at the Technical University of Dortmund
• Faculty of Transport Science "Friedrich List", Technical University of Dresden
• Department of traffic and transport at the FH Erfurt
• Institute for Transport at KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
• Institute for Transport Planning and Systems at the ETH Zurich
• Department of traffic planning and traffic systems at the University of Kassel

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hendrik Ammoser, Mirko Hoppe: Glossary of Transport and Transport Sciences (PDF; 1.3 MB) , published in the series Discussion Papers from the Institute for Economics and Transport , Technische Universität Dresden , Dresden 2006, ISSN  1433-626X