The Oxford English Dictionary offers a very restrictive definition of ‘transport’:
To take or carry (people or goods) from one place to another by means of a vehicle, aircraft, or ship.
This definition is restricted in two undesirable ways:
Walking, the fundamental means of transport, would be excluded if movement were confined to mechanical means of transport, be they vehicles, aircraft or ships. Although escalators, conveyor belts, lifts and a panoply of mechanical handling equipment are not seen as ‘vehicles’, they transport people and goods for important, if not lengthy, distances. Transport should be defined to include all movement by all means.
The definition should not be restricted to the movement ...
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