Public transport can be described as all of the following:
Technology – making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures.
Transport – the movement of humans, animals and goods from one location to another.
Rail transport – means of conveyance of passengers and goods by way of wheeled vehicles running on rail tracks consisting of steel rails installed on sleepers/ties and ballast.
Limousine - A luxury sedan or saloon car driven by a chauffeur and with a partition between the driver and the passenger compartment.
Motorcycle taxi - A taxi that typically carries one passenger, who rides as the pillion behind the motorcycle operator.
Paratransit - Special transportation services for people with disabilities, often provided as a supplement to fixed-route bus and rail systems by public transit agencies.
Share taxi - Vehicles for hire that are typically smaller than buses and usually take passengers on a fixed or semi-fixed route without timetables, but instead departing when all seats are filled.
Taxicab - A car used by a single passenger or small group of passengers, often for a non-shared ride.
Richard Trevithick (13 April 1771 - 22 April 1833), was the engineer who built the first railway
steam locomotive that was demonstrated at
Penydarren ironworks in
South Wales on 21 February 1804. The steam locomotive went on to reduce travel times between towns and cities and was one of the key inventions of the
Industrial Revolution.
John Stephenson (1809 -1893), was the inventor of the first streetcar (named "John Mason") to run on rails in the USA. It was pulled by horses and opened on the 26 November 1832.