Portal:Transportation
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| Transport (or transportation) is the movement of people, animals and produce from one location to another (commonly referred to as "Point A to point B"). Forms of transportation include air, land (rail and road), water, cable, pipeline and space. The field can be divided into infrastructure, vehicles and operations. Transport enables trade between people, which is essential for the development of civilizations and societies.
Transport infrastructure consists of fixed installations, such as roads, railways, airways, aqueducts, canals and pipelines and terminals such as airports, railway stations, bus stations, warehouses, trucking terminals, refueling depots (including fueling docks and fuel stations) and seaports. Terminals may be used both for interchange of passengers and cargo and for maintenance. In the Micronational world, transportation usually involves scale models of railway rolling stock or aircraft, as most Nations cannot afford for 1:1 vehicles and the associated infastructure alongside it. Roads are usually operated with ride-on vehicles such as bicycles, scooters, ect. These are usually run over pavements or walkways classified as "Roads" or in some cases, "Motorways". | ||
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Road signs in Lurk are road signs used to denote changes in the traffic laws of Lurk. Furthermore, some signs are used to identify a road or a named place. A list of Lurkish road signs lies below. Most of the road signs are modified European - Czech road signs. Roads are divided into three groups. D-class roads are paved asphalt or concrete roads and are classified as a highway. S-class roads are unpaved "field roads" of high usage. C-class roads are usually short roads connecting other roads or other roads with a special designation. |
The flag of Baustralia, often referred to as the Baustralian flag is a national flag consisting of a blue field with a white square at its centre in the ratio of 1:2:1, in the middle of which is featured a Baustralian Fish charged in the centre. It is the first specified by law for use as the country's national flag. It's vertical equivalent is the same as the normal flag, though everything is turned 90° except the fish. The Federal Symbols Act 2, MMXVII dictates that for a flag to be considered 'vertical', it must be at most 45° from the ground. There also exists flags to identify whether the Kingdom is in a state of emergency or transition, or where the emergency is. Green is used for transition, dark red for emergency, black for naval emergencies, red for terrestrial emergencies, or yellow for aerial emergencies. | |