Talk:Road transport

message: The Toll Roads section needs some redoing and probably renaming or splitting. If it's going to stay called toll roads, it should mention 19th century and earlier turnpikes. --SPUI 07:36, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Organization

message: Too focused on America - what about the other 5 billion people in the world?
:Well, if you know anything about the history of road development anywhere else, feel free to update the article.  Just remember to cite your sources, though.  See Roger J. Traynor for an example of what an article with proper citations looks like. --Coolcaesar 05:14, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  America 

message: Road transport and vehicle. I think it is difficult to discern the difference just like that. But my scoop on the subject is. I was wondering if for example a road train could be considered a vehicle or is it a transportation?  It's a paradox, but when you look at it I think it's a transport. Now however, if the article road trains explained a little more in details about the vehicle perhaps it may be a type of vehicle? I'm essentially confused? What is the difference between transport and vehicle?
Now google define says "transportation: the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials "
On wiki we have said that "Transport or transportation is the movement of people, goods, signals and information from one place to another. The term is derived from the Latin trans ("across") and portare ("to carry")."
Now google defines vehicle as "a conveyance that transports people or objects."  but is define also as: "Any mechanical mode of transportation including bicycles." www.unbsj.ca/security/parking-regs-definitions.html
So from what I can see a vehicles are a type of transportation. But a transportion is not necessarilly only vehicles.  Eik!  I'm still confused can someone help me.
Okay!  Let's try the etymology:
#Vehicle: from Fr. véhicule, from L. vehiculum "means of transport, a vehicle," from vehere "to carry," from PIE *wegh- "to go, transport in a vehicle" (cf. O.E. wegan "to carry;" O.N. vegr, O.H.G. weg "way;" M.Du. wagen "wagon;" see wagon). Sense of "cart or other conveyance" first recorded 1656.
#Transport:c.1374, from O.Fr. transporter "carry or convey across" (14c.), from L. transportare, from trans- "across" + portare "to carry" (see port (1)). Sense of "carry away with strong feelings" is first recorded 1509. Meaning "to carry away into banishment" is recorded from 1666. The noun is attested from 1456, originally "mental exaltation;" sense of "means of transportation" is recorded from 1694. Transportation "act of transporting" is recorded from 1540. In the sense of "means of conveyance" it is first recorded 1853.
:From what I can see, transport has to do with the "action" of transporting (or carying from one place to the other)(ie.:conveyance)(1540) and vehicle is from the French véhicule and has to do with any means by which we conveye (or tranport) by machine or object used to perform transport.
 
I don't know what I conclude from this?  anyone?  --CyclePat 02:59, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that post is by a non-native English speaker who is having difficulty understanding the difference between vehicle and transport.  Transport refers to the whole enterprise of moving things or people in general; vehicles are objects by which transport is accomplished.  It's not that hard.  --Coolcaesar 08:54, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vehicle or Transport 

message: No mention of Cargo or passenger road transport!? Peter Horn 01:15, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: "Haulier" not "holier"  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.32.103.197 (talk) 21:17, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Cargo]] and [[Passenger]] transportation

message: A WikiProject about this subject has been proposed here. Laïka 12:09, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject Road Transport 

message: Road transport can be horse-based, so there needs to be a separate Motor-transport article. This is what I would need to link to to illustrate effect of motorisation on history of 20th century warfare.--Mrg3105 (talk) 01:53, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not clear enough 

message: I added the POV notice.
We don't need too much details about US.
We need more info about something which America seems to be unaware of : The Rest of the World.
--Rsrikanth05 (talk) 13:35, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV 

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thread_title:  removing POV tag with no active discussion per [[Template:POV]] 

message: I believe, the VMT (for Vehicle miles traveled) is an indicator of the road network usage, for a country.
VMT is usually computed by 100 million kilometers traveled or by billion million kilometers traveled, or in miles in some countries.
This number greatly increased in various countries during the XXth century. I asusme the article could provide some data about it.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.185.253.94 (talk) 22:09, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vehicle miles traveled 

message: I added to the article with references but there are still unsourced sections. Otr500 (talk) 16:49, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article sourcing 

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