Image 4A replica of a "Little Eaton Tramway" wagon; the tracks are plateways. (from Rail transport)
Image 5According to Eurostat and the European Railway Agency, the fatality risk for passengers and occupants on European railways is 28 times lower when compared with car usage (based on data by EU-27 member nations, 2008–2010). (from Rail transport)
Image 7Traffic congestion persists in São Paulo, Brazil, despite the no-drive days based on license numbers.
Image 8German soldiers in a railway car on the way to the front in August 1914. The message on the car reads Von München über Metz nach Paris ("From Munich via Metz to Paris"). (from Rail transport)
Image 40Passengers waiting to board a tube train on the London Underground in the early 1900s (sketch by unknown artist)
Image 41The engineering of this roundabout in Bristol, United Kingdom, attempts to make traffic flow free-moving.
Image 42Bronocice pot with the earliest known image of a wheeled vehicle in the world, found in Poland (from Transport)
Image 43The Great North Road near High gate on the approach to London before turnpiking. The highway was deeply rutted and spread onto adjoining land. (from Road transport)
Image 44Arizona - North America - Southwest - Interstate Highway System (4893585908) (from Road transport)
Image 48The Lockheed SR-71 remains unsurpassed in many areas of performance. (from Aviation)
Image 49Bardon Hill box in England (seen here in 2009) is a Midland Railway box dating from 1899, although the original mechanical lever frame has been replaced by electrical switches. (from Rail transport)
Image 63A cast iron fishbelly edge rail manufactured by Outram at the Butterley Company for the Cromford and High Peak Railway in 1831; these are smooth edge rails for wheels with flanges. (from Rail transport)
The Wright Flyer (often retrospectively referred to as Flyer I and occasionally Kitty Hawk) was the first powered aircraft designed and built by the Wright brothers. The flight is recognized by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, the standard setting and record-keeping body for aeronautics and astronautics, as "the first sustained and controlled heavier-than-air powered flight".
... that United States Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg wrote an essay in 2000 on Bernie Sanders, his future competitor in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries?
... that a section of Mississippi Highway 489 was designated as the Jason Boyd Memorial Highway to commemorate the MDOT superintendent who was killed while removing debris from the road?
... that when Charles P. Gross became the chairman of the New York City Board of Transportation, the mayor told him that "if you think war is Hell, then you have something waiting for you on this job"?