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The art of being somewhere else, slightly late.
means The systems and vehicles that move people or goods from one place to another.
from From Latin trans- ('across') plus portare ('to carry') — the same portare that gives us 'port,' 'porter,' and 'export.' The verb transportare meant simply 'to carry across,' and English borrowed it almost unchanged, first for moving goods and prisoners, later for the whole business of getting anyone anywhere.
- oldest mode
- Walking, still undefeated after 2 million years
- biggest energy user
- Transportation burns about a quarter of global energy
- wheel's rival
- The wheel appeared 6,000 years after farming, not before
- traffic irony
- More roads often increase traffic, not reduce it