Transportation Ground

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Introduction1

Encyclopedia

Ground transportation is the transport or movement of people, animals, and goods from one location to another on land, usually by rail or road. — Wikipedia

Search

Road Transport (Wolfram Alpha)

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Adventures

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Innovation

Technology

Civil engineering is an engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, sewage systems, pipelines, structural components of buildings, and railways. — Wikipedia

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Preservation

History

Ground Transportation (Smithsonian)
History of Land Transport (Wikipedia)

Library

DDC: 388.3 Vehicular Transportation (Library Thing)
Subject: Vehicles (Library Thing)

DDC: 625 Road and Railroad (Library Thing)
Subject: Roads (Library Thing)

Subject: Vehicles (Open Library)
Subject: Roads (Open Library)

LCC: TE Roads (UPenn Online Books)
LCC: TL Vehicles (UPenn Online Books)

LCC: TE Roads (Library of Congress)
Subject: Roads (Library of Congress)

LCC: TL Vehicles (Library of Congress)
Subject: Vehicles (Library of Congress)

Subject: Roads (WorldCat)
Subject: Vehicles (WorldCat)

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Participation

Education

Excellence in Civil Engineering Education (American Society of Civil Engineers)

MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
OER Commons: Open Educational Resources

Course

Center for Transportation & Logistics (Course CTL, MITx)
MIT Civil and Environmental Engineering

Community

Organization

American Society of Civil Engineers

News

Ground Transportation (JSTOR)

Transportation Topics

Government

Document

Ground Transport (USA.gov)

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Expression

Fun

Record Breaking and Extreme Land Vehicles (Diseno-art)

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Related

These are links to pages about closely related subjects.

Transportation Modes Ground (Cycle, Automobile, Train), Sea, Air, Space

Geography Navigation, Map

Sphere Land, Ice

Animal Camel, Horse

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Notes

1.   The resources on this page are are organized by a classification scheme developed exclusively for Cosma.