transportation

1. A facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods (synset 104480667)
   is a type of: facility, installation - a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry
   subtypes:

   • air transportation system - a transportation system for moving passengers or goods by air
   • highway system - a transportation system consisting of roads for motor transport
   • public transit - a public transportation system for moving passengers
   • short line - a transportation system that operates over relatively short distances
   • telferage, telpherage - a transportation system in which cars (telphers) are suspended from cables and operated on electricity
   has:

   • airfield, field, flying field, landing field - a place where planes take off and land
   • bridge, span - a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.
   • line - a commercial organization serving as a common carrier
   • public transport - conveyance for passengers or mail or freight
   • depot, terminal, terminus - station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods
   • way - any artifact consisting of a road or path affording passage from one place to another
   is a part of: base, infrastructure - the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area
   same as: transit, transportation system
2. The act of moving something from one location to another (synset 100316812)
   is a type of: movement - the act of changing the location of something
   subtypes:

   • transshipment - the transfer from one conveyance to another for shipment
   • airlift, lift - transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable)
   • connection, connexion - shifting from one form of transportation to another
   • bringing, delivery - the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail)
   • drive - the act of driving a herd of animals overland
   • carry - the act of carrying something
   • lighterage - the transportation of goods on a lighter
   • relocation, resettlement - the transportation of people (as a family or colony) to a new settlement (as after an upheaval of some kind)
   • teleportation - a hypothetical mode of instantaneous transportation; matter is dematerialized at one place and recreated at another
   has: pickup - the act of taking aboard passengers or freight
   same as: conveyance, transfer, transferral, transport
3. The sum charged for riding in a public conveyance (synset 113329169)
   is a type of: charge - the price charged for some article or service
   subtypes:

   • airfare - the fare charged for traveling by airplane
   • bus fare, carfare - the fare charged for riding a bus or streetcar
   • cab fare, taxi fare - the fare charged for riding in a taxicab
   • train fare - the fare charged for traveling by train
   same as: fare
4. The United States federal department that institutes and coordinates national transportation programs;
   Created in 1966 (synset 108160653)
   is a type of: executive department - a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States
   has:

   • faa, federal aviation administration - an agency in the Department of Transportation that is responsible for the safety of civilian aviation
   • transportation security administration, tsa - an agency established in 2001 to safeguard United States transportation systems and insure safe air travel
   • u. s. coast guard, united states coast guard, us coast guard - an agency of the Department of Transportation responsible for patrolling shores and facilitating nautical commerce
   same as: department of transportation, dot
5. The commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials (synset 101107164)
   associated with:

   • on-line, online - on a regular route of a railroad or bus or airline system
   • off-line - not on a regular route of a transportation system
   is a type of: business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise - the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects
   subtypes:

   • air transport, air transportation - transportation by air
   • navigation - ship traffic
   • hauling, truckage, trucking - the activity of transporting goods by truck
   • freight, freightage - transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates
   • express, expressage - rapid transport of goods
   • ferry, ferrying - transport by boat or aircraft
   is a part of: commerce, commercialism, mercantilism - transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)
   same as: shipping, transport
6. The act of expelling a person from their native land (synset 100208610)
   "men in exile dream of hope"; "his deportation to a penal colony"; "the expatriation of wealthy farmers"; "the sentence was one of transportation for life"
   is a type of: banishment, proscription - rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone
   specific instances: babylonian captivity - the deportation of the Jews to Babylonia by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC
   same as: deportation, exile, expatriation

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