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Transportation

Medical Definition:	The means of moving persons, animals, goods, or materials from one place to another.
Guide Notes:	specify industry or geog if pertinent
Also Called:	Commuting

Transportation Categories.

	Aviation - Design, development, manufacture, and operation of heavier-than-air aircraft.
	Motor Vehicles - AUTOMOBILES, trucks, buses, or similar engine-driven conveyances. (From Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)
	Railroads - Permanent roads having a line of rails fixed to ties and laid to gage, usually on a leveled or graded ballasted roadbed and providing a track for freight cars, passenger cars, and other rolling stock. Cars are designed to be drawn by locomotives or sometimes propelled by self-contained motors. (From Webster's 3d) The concept includes the organizational and administrative aspects of railroads as well.
	Ships - Large vessels propelled by power or sail used for transportation on rivers, seas, oceans, or other navigable waters. Boats are smaller vessels propelled by oars, paddles, sail, or power; they may or may not have a deck.

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