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Transporeon

Transporeon is a German cloud-based transportation management platform founded in Ulm in 2000 by four students, connecting shippers with carriers; Trimble acquired it for €1.88 billion in 2023.

Transport

Transport is the movement of people and goods from one location to another by vehicles and infrastructure; the sector employs around 200 million people worldwide.

Transport Accident Investigation Commission

The Transport Accident Investigation Commission (TAIC) is New Zealand's independent Crown entity investigating aviation, maritime, and rail accidents to determine causes and prevent recurrence, not to assign blame.

Transport Act 1947

The Transport Act 1947 was a United Kingdom law that nationalised most inland transport, placing railways, canals, ports, and road haulage under the British Transport Commission from 1948.

Transport Act 1962

The Transport Act 1962 is a UK Act that abolished the British Transport Commission, splitting its functions among new bodies including the British Railways Board and British Waterways Board.

Transport Agency (Sweden)

The Swedish Transport Agency (Transportstyrelsen) is the Swedish government agency responsible for regulations, permits and supervision in rail, aviation, shipping and road transport, established in 2009.

Transport and General Workers' Union

The Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU) was a British trade union created in 1922 from fourteen unions and, at about 320,000 members, then Britain's largest.

Transport Canada

Transport Canada, also called the Canadian Department of Transport, is the federal department responsible for Canada's transportation policies, created in 1936; it regulates civil aviation safety and pilot licensing.

Transport Canada aerodrome identifiers

Transport Canada aerodrome identifiers are four-character Canadian aviation location codes, such as CYVR for Vancouver, assigned by NAV CANADA in two formats, both beginning with the letter C.

Transport economics

Transport economics is the branch of economics that studies travel demand, transport pricing, infrastructure investment, and transport markets, marked by non-storable output and large external costs.

Transport Fever 3

Transport Fever 3 is a transport tycoon simulation by Urban Games, published by Paradox Interactive, released September 29, 2026 on PC, Mac, Linux, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S, with 300+ vehicles, cargo deadlines, and cross-platform mods.

Transport for London

Transport for London (TfL), created 3 July 2000 under the GLA Act 1999, is London's integrated transport authority, running the Underground, buses, Elizabeth line, DLR, trams and red-route roads, funded mostly by fares.

Transport for NSW

Transport for NSW, established in November 2011, is the central transport agency of New South Wales, Australia, planning and funding the state's roads, trains, buses, and ferries.

Transport in China

Transport in China is the system of railways, highways, waterways, and civil aviation that in 2024 carried 17.08 billion passenger trips, with 48,000 km of high-speed rail.

Transport in Hong Kong

Transport in Hong Kong centers on public transport, dominated by the MTR railway, franchised buses, trams, ferries and taxis, with about 11.7 million passenger journeys daily in 2024.

Transport in India

Transport in India is the movement of people and goods by road, rail, water, and air, with railways and roads carrying more than 95% of traffic.

Transport in Japan

Transport in Japan is dominated by an extensive railway system that carries the large majority of domestic passengers, while freight moves mainly by truck and coastal shipping.

Transport in Singapore

Transport in Singapore is the system of roads, rail, buses, taxis, and maritime services regulated by the Land Transport Authority, combining public transport investment with strict limits on car ownership.

Transport in the United Kingdom

Transport in the United Kingdom is the system of road, rail, waterway, air, and sea networks moving people and freight, overseen by the Department for Transport.

Transport layer

The transport layer, known as layer 4 in the OSI model, provides end-to-end communication services to applications, using protocols such as TCP, UDP, and QUIC.

Transport Layer Security

Transport Layer Security (TLS), also known as SSL, is a cryptographic protocol that encrypts and authenticates communication over untrusted networks, best known for securing websites as HTTPS.

Transport of fatty acids

Transport of fatty acids: movement of long-chain fatty acids across cell membranes by passive diffusion plus protein-facilitated uptake via FATPs (SLC27A1-6), CD36, and FABPpm, with cytoplasmic FABPs carrying them to oxidation and esterification sites.

Transport of small molecules

Transport of small molecules: movement of ions, gases, sugars, and metabolites across cell and organelle membranes by passive diffusion, channels, carriers, and SLC/ABC transporters; Reactome pathway R-HSA-382551.

Transport phenomena

Transport phenomena is the branch of engineering science dealing with movement of momentum, energy, and chemical species, encompassing fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and mass transfer.

Transport protein particle (TRAPP) component

TRAPP component: subunit of the transport/trafficking protein particle (TRAPP) complex, a conserved Rab GEF; TRAPPII activates Rab11, TRAPPIII activates Rab1; variants cause TRAPPopathies.

Transport Scotland

Transport Scotland is the national transport agency for Scotland, part of the Scottish Government and formed on 1 January 2006. It manages trunk roads, rail, ferries, and concessionary travel.

Transport-of-intensity equation

The transport-of-intensity equation (TIE) is an equation of optics, derived by Michael Teague in 1982, that recovers a beam's phase from intensity measurements alone, without interferometry.

Transport-triggered architecture

Transport-triggered architecture (TTA), or MOVE architecture, is a processor design grown out of VLIW in which programs specify data transports, and operations execute when data reaches a function unit's trigger port, mainly for embedded accelerators.

Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century

The Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) is a 1998 United States federal law authorizing federal highway, safety, and transit programs through 2003.

Transportation in the Philippines

Transportation in the Philippines: the multimodal system across 7,641 islands, where roads carry 98% of passengers, sea carries 99.98% of domestic trade, rail is minimal (76.9–500 km), and NSCR, subway and airport projects reshape mobility.