Mode of transport

Vehicles are moving technical equipment or livestock, as they serve to transport people and goods (see list of transport), in short, everything which one can move as pedestrians differently.

Not to be counted usually rides and children's play area, but about the legal situation in Switzerland is different if children play area (such as roller skates or inline skates ) are considered as toys or transport, depending on where they are used as and.

Transport, however, are components of a transport system for transporting cargo on roads, for example container or supporting means.

As a means of mass transportation that transport is defined, which transport people in large quantities. These mainly include vehicles in public transport, ships and aircraft. The term is in contrast to individual transport.

Modes (or mode of transport ), however, are the immovable technical equipment and facilities, which serve the freight and / or passenger.

Foot traffic and floating debris do not need transport as the only modes of transport. The foot traffic makes but at least 24% of the paths of inhabitants in Germany, in some federal countries, nearly every third way is to walk back down ( modal split ).

The automotive industry manufactures cars that need to be built the road traffic licensing regulations ( Road Traffic Licensing Regulations ) accordingly.

Bikes played a major role in individual transport (IV). Although the passenger cars ( cars) has largely replaced the two-wheelers in Germany, bicycles of households are still available in about 80%. However, only about two percent of total traffic performance are provided with bicycles in Germany though, but they are used for about 10 % of the ways of the inhabitants ( modal split ).

Compared with the private motorized public transport (PT ) usually is more environmentally friendly. For the mass transport in large cities transport system, including S- Bahn, U -Bahn, rail, tram, trolleybus and buses are used, sometimes ferries and cable cars in the regular service. In the Third World countries, trucks, midi buses, minibuses and wagons are used for passenger transport.

Transport, the need to drive on a track called "spur bound ", usually they are by technical means such as rails or magnetic fields also " trace out " and can not leave their solid lanes. Besides the rail vehicles are also cable cars, driverless transport vehicles, track buses and others in this category. Trolleybuses are bound only by the position of their top line as an energy supply in the guide, but do not track out in most cases. You can overtake example individually as road vehicles.