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Definition: Transit |
TransitNoun1. A surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, consisting of a small telescope mounted on a tripod. 2. Facility consisting of the roads and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods. 3. A journey usually by ship; "the outward passage took 10 days". Verb1. Make a transit. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "transit" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | TRANSIT Subsystem of ICES. Sammet 1969, p.616. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Aerospace | 1. The passage of a celestial body across a celestial meridian, usually called meridian transit. 2. The apparent passage of a celestial body across the face of another celestial body or across any point, area, or line. 3. An instrument used by an astronomer to determine the exact instant of meridian transit of a celestial body.4. A reversing instrument used by surveyors for accurately measuring horizontal and vertical angles; a theodolite which can be reversed in its supports without being lifted from them. (references) |
Building & Civil Engineering | The passing of a planet across or through any special point or place on the zodiac. Source: European Union. (references) |
Meteorology & Standards | The exact time when a given celestial body crosses the local meridian of an observer. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A theodolite in which the telescope can be reversed (turned end for end) in its supports without being lifted from them, by rotating it 180 degrees or more about its horizontal transverse axis b. The act of reversing the direction of a telescope (of a transit) by rotation about its horizontal axis.---v. To reverse the direction of a telescope (of a transit) by rotating it 180 degrees about its horizontalaxis. Syn:plunge. (references) |
Post & Telecom | The passage of a telegram or the passage of a circuit, or of a communication through one or more countries other than the country of origin and the country of destination. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Pertaining to traffic in a network, indicates that the sources generating the traffic and the destination of the traffic are located outside this network. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Public Administration | Transit of a person who is not a national of a Member State through the territory or the transit zone of a port or airport of a Member State. Source: European Union. (references) |
Transportation | Services provided for the carriage of passengers and their incidental baggage within cities and metropolitan areas, usually on a farepaying basis; the term is not applied to intercity transport. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Passage through a Eurorep sub-zone of a vessel bound for and leaving ports located outside the Community. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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A transit is the astronomical event that occurs when a non-luminous body subtending a smaller angular diameter passes between an observer and another body which, though more distant, subtends a larger angular diameter.The term is most frequently used to describe the motion of a planet beween a terrestrial observer and the Sun. This can happen only with inferior planets. To a pedant, an annular eclipse is a transit of the Moon.
In recent years the discovery of extra solar planetss has excited interest in the possibility of detecting their transits across their own stellar primaries.
Transits of Venus with respect to Earth are rare, they currently happen in pairs 8 years apart which repeat only after more than a century. The last transit of Venus was in 1882; the next three will occur on June 8, 2004, June 6, 2012, and December 11, 2117. In the 18th century, the transit pair of 1761 and 1769 was used to determine the value of the astronomical unit.
Transits of Mercury with respect to Earth, being closer to the Sun, are more frequent, about thirteen per century. The last ones were on November 15, 1999, and May 7, 2003, the next ones will be on November 8, 2006, May 9, 2016 and November 11, 2019.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Astronomical transit."
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Positional astronomy is the study of the positions of celestial objects. This is the oldest branch of astronomy and dates back to antiquity. Observations of celestial objects are important for religious and astrological purposes, as well as for timekeeping.Ancient structures associated with positional astronomy include:
The unaided human eye can detect about 6000 stars, of which about half are below the horizon at any one time.
- Chichén Itzá
- The Medicine Wheel
- The Pyramids
- Stonehenge
- The Temple of the Sun
On modern star charts, the celestial sphere is divided into 88 constellations. Every star lies within a constellation.
Constellations are useful for navigation. If you live in the northern hemisphere you can find north by locating the star Polaris. This star is always at a position nearly over the north pole.
See also:
- Planets which are in conjunction form a line which passes through the center of the solar system
- The ecliptic is the plane which contains the orbit of a planet, usually in reference to Earth
- Elongation refers to the angle formed by a planet, with respect to the system's center and a viewing point
- Superior planets have a larger orbit than the earth while the inferior planets (Mercury and Venus) orbit the sun inside the earth's orbit
- A transit occurs when an inferior planet passes through a point of conjunction
See also
angle, diurnal motion, eclipse, ecliptic, elongation, epoch, equinox, Halley, Edmund, History of Astronomy, Kepler's laws of planetary motion, prograde and retrograde motion, Moon, occultation, parallax, sidereal time, solstice, time, astrology, jyotish, Chinese astrologySource: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Positional astronomy."
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Public transport is the collective name for transport systems in which the passengers do not travel in their own vehicles. It is called public transit or mass transit in the U.S.A and Canada. While it is generally taken to mean rail and bus services, wider definitions would include scheduled airline services, ferries, taxi services etc., basically any system which is transporting members of the general public.The term rapid transit refers to fast public transport in and around cities, such as metro systems.
Public transport can be faster than other modes of travel; prime examples are in cities where road congestion can be avoided, and for long distance travel where much higher speeds are possible than are permitted on roads.
Forms of public transport (in the broad sense)
Some of these types are often not for use by the general public, e.g. elevators in offices and apartment buildings, buses for personnel or school children, freight trains, etc.
- Aerial tramway also called Cable car or Cableway, vehicle suspended on aerial cables
- Airliner
- Bus normally serving a regular fixed route but could include a variable route, divert-on-demand service, see Bus rapid transit
- Cable car on rails, used in cities, tram-like vehicle on rails pulled by a cable
- Cable car on rails, used in mountains, see Funicular
- Cable car not on rails, suspended on a cable, see Aerial tramway
- Chairlift
- Coach
- Cog railway (or rack and pinion railway)
- Conveyor transport (term includes escalators and horizontal or slightly inclined moving sidewalk - "Travolator")
- Electric trolleybus
- Elevator
- Escalator
- Ferry, including hydrofoil and air-cushion ship (Hovercraft)
- Funicular, used in mountains, tram-like vehicle on rails pulled by a cable up and down a very steep slope.
- Gondola lift
- Helicopter
- Light rail a tram-like system with no significant sections of the route shared with cars or pedestrians
- Maglev
- Metro, including rubber-tired metro
- Monorail
- Taxi, including motor taxi, rickshaw, water taxi
- Train, including commuter train and high speed rail
- Tram (or tramway, trolley, streetcar)
- Emerging transportation technologies
- Group rapid transit
- Dual mode transit
- Personal rapid transit
- Automated highway systems
- Bus rapid transit
Nodes and stops
In addition one can get alight from or board a taxi at any road where stopping is allowed. Some fixed route buses allow getting on and off at suitable unmarked locations along that route, typically called a hail-and-ride section.
- Airport, heliport
- List of airports
- Bus stop (including bus station, bus depot), tram stop
- Metro station
- List of London Underground stations
- Stations of the Paris Metro
- Ship terminal, landing-stage or jetty
- Taxi stand
- Train station
- tramstop
Ticket systems
- must be bought in advance, one can not physically enter the railway platform etc. without, due to a turnstile or guard (usually found in metro)
- must be bought in advance, one can not physically enter the vehicle etc. without, due to a turnstile or guard (usually found in metro)
- must be bought in advance, one is checked by a conductor, etc., upon entry (usually found on buses in North America and Western Europe)
- must be bought in advance, one is checked randomly by a ticket controler (usually found in Eastern Europe)
- can be bought on entering the vehicle or during the ride
- sometimes the ticket can be bought both in advance and during the ride, then the fare may be higher in the latter case, see also Conductor (transportation); in this case buying in advance is often possible at the point of departure, but usually not at a tram or bus stop
Special tickets include:
- passes for unlimited travel within a period of time
- passes for unlimited travel during a given number of days that can be chosen within a longer period of time (e.g. 8 days within a month)
- multi-ride tickets
- discount tickets valid for someone with a discount pass, etc.
- Smartcard
- SMS tickets
Funding
Funding for public transport systems differ widely, from systems which are run as unsubsidised commercial enterprises to systems that are free of charge:
Other transportation services may be commercial, but receive benefits from the government compared to a normal company, e.g.,
- Hasselt, Belgium - free bus services
- Gent - free night bus services (weekends only)
- Renesse (mun. Schouwen-Duiveland), Netherlands - free bus services in the area (in summer only)
- Dordrecht - bus and ferry, some saturdays at the end of each year
- Leiden Transferium - The Hague, express bus, running on weekdays during daytime, free of charge as a test during 2004; it is intended for commuters working in The Hague and living in Leiden or beyond who would otherwise travel by car to the Hague, to promote parking the car at the Transferium and continuing the journey by bus; the aim is to reduce road traffic congestion between Leiden and The Hague. The test is paid by the province of South Holland.
- Washington, D.C - Congressional Subway - small free metro system
- some ferries, such as the Staten Island Ferry.
- short-distance 'public transport' such as elevator, escalator, moving sidewalk (horizontal and inclined); these are often part of a larger public transport system or business (e.g. shop) of which the products and services are not free.
- free bicycle services have been run in some places.
One reason many cities spend large sums on their public transport systems is that heavy automobile traffic congests city streets and causes air pollution. It is believed that well maintained, high volume public transport systems alleviate this. Many complex factors affect the outcome of spendings in public transport, so success in reducing car traffic is not always assured.
- direct payments to run unprofitable services.
- government bailouts it the company is likely to collapse (often applied to airlines).
- tax advantages, e.g., aviation fuel is typically not taxed.
- reduction of competition through licencing schemes (often applied to taxi and airline services.)
- allowing use of state-owned infrastructure without payment or for less than cost-price (may apply for railways).
Another reason for subsidies for public transit are the provision of mobility to those who cannot afford or are physically incapable of using an automobile and those who reject its use on environmental or safety grounds.
Public transport as a sleeping place
Public transport and its terminal buildings are sometimes used by homeless people and budget tourists as a sleeping place. This can vary from the tourist who travels on purpose at night in order to sleep while travelling and dispense with the cost of a hotel, to people for whom the 'sleeping accommodation' is the purpose, and the displacement of the vehicle a somewhat inconvenient irrelevance.
For the latter a key requirement is that travelling through the night costs less than a nearby hotel. This may especially be the case with a rail or bus pass.
One popular example is the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) bus route 22, dubbed 'Hotel 22', between Palo Alto, California and San Jose, California, (Silicon Valley). A pass for 24 hours costs 4 dollars and one for a month 45 dollars, much less than a hotel, house or apartment.
See also
Timetable, Human positions, Public transport service numbering, urban economics
External link
- http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/9823/ - maps
- http://www.minvenw.nl/rws/bwd/transferium/waar/images/plat_schouw.jpg - map
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Public transport."
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The word "transit", when used alone, has several possible meanings in English"Transit" is also a part of the name of:
- means of transportation, including mass transit, rapid transit, public transit, public transport; see transit (transportation)
- in astronomy, an event involving two bodies along the same line of sight; see transit (astronomy)
- in surveying, a specialized instrument (more specifically, a specialized theodolite, and not to be confused with a transit instrument in astronomy, for which see below); see transit (surveying)
- transit papers or transit visa; see border control
- transit instrument, an specialized astronomical telescope for observing transits
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Transit."
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The TRANSIT system, also known as NAVSAT (for Navy Navigation Satellite System), was the first satellite navigation system to be used operationally. The system was primarily used by the US Navy to take accurate fixes for programming the launches of SLBMs from submarines, but was also used as a general navigation system by both the Navy and US Air Force, as well as hydrographic and geodetic surveying.
History
The system was developed by the Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University for the Navy. The first successful tests of the system were made in 1960. The satellites (known as OSCAR or NOVA satellites) used in the system were placed in low polar orbits, at an altitude of 600 nautical miles, with an orbital period of about 106 minutes. A constellation of five satellites was required to provide global coverage. While the system was operational, at least ten satellites – one spare for each satellite in the basic constellation – were usually kept in orbit.
The TRANSIT system was made obsolete by the Global Positioning System, and ceased operation in 1996. Improvements in electronics allowed the GPS system to effectively take several fixes at once, thereby greatly reducing the complexity of deducing a position. In addition the GPS system uses many more satellites than were used with TRANSIT, making the system able to be used continually, whereas TRANSIT provided a fix only every hour or more.
Description
The TRANSIT system satellites broadcast a contiuous signal which included the precise time, as well as the orbital parameters of the satellite. Ships would measure this signal and use the orbital parameter data to calculate the location of the satellite at any point in time.
As a satellite approached a ground receiver, the received frequency would be higher than the transmitted frequency due to the doppler effect, but as it passed over frequency would suddenly drop. The rate of change of the received frequency could be used deduce the slant range (or line-of-sight distance) to the satellite. If the satellite was right overhead the shift would be quite quick as it went from "approaching" to "receeding", but with the satellite to one side this would occur more slowly.
Calculating a fix consisted of two steps. First the signals from the satellite were used to determine the position of the satellite, then the slant range was calculated from the measurement of the doppler shift. The slant range thus indicated that the ship was on one side or the other of the satellite, although the system didn't tell you which side. Two fixes could be used to determine that information, but more typically the TRANSIT fix could be compared with less accurate systems to determine the side.
The system provided accuracy of roughly 200 meters, and also provided time synchronization to roughly 50 microseconds. Since only one measurement could be taken per pass, TRANSIT was considered fairly accurate, but slow. The interval between satellite passes at mid-latitudes was typically an hour or two, but near the equator the interval between fixes could be several hours.
The principle is similar to the system used by emergency locator transmitters, except there the transmitter is in orbit and the receiver is on the ground. Details on the signal are forwarded directly to ground stations, which then generate a fix on the transmitter using a process similar to TRANSIT.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Transit (satellite)."
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Transport, or transportation (as it is called in the United States), is the movement of people and goods from one place to another. The term is derived from the Latin trans, meaning across, and portare, meaning to carry.The field of transport has several aspects, loosely they can be divided into a triad of infrastructure, vehicles, and operations. Infrastructure includes the transport networks (roads, railways, airways, canals, pipelines, etc.) that are used, as well as the nodes or terminals (such as airports, train stations, bus stations and seaports). The vehicles generally ride on the networks, such as automobiles, trains, airplanes. The operations deal with the control of the system, such as traffic signals and ramp meters, railroad switches, air traffic control, etc, as well as policies, such as how to finance the system (e.g. use of tolls or gasoline taxes in the case of highway transport).
Broadly speaking, the design of networks are the domain of civil engineering and urban planning, the design of vehicles of mechanical engineering and specialized subfields such as nautical engineering and aerospace engineering, and the operations are usually specialized, though might appropriately belong to operations research or systems engineering.
Modes of transport
Modes are combinations of networks, vehicles, and operations, and include walking, the automobile/ highway system, railroads, maritime transport (ships, waterways, and harbors), and modern aviation (airplanes, airports, and air traffic control).
Categories of transport
- (Non-human) Animal-powered transport
- Aviation
- Cable transport
- Conveyor transport
- Human-powered transport
- Hybrid transport
- Motorized road transport
- Motorized off-road transport
- Personal rapid transit (resembles an automated taxi service)
- Pipeline transport
- Rail transport
- Ship transport
- Space transport
- Proposed future transport
Transport and communications
Transport and communication are both substitutes and complements. Though it might be possible that sufficiently advanced communication could substitute for transport, one could telegraph, telephone, fax, or email a customer rather than visiting them in person, it has been found that those modes of communication in fact generate more total interactions, including interpersonal interactions. The growth in transport would be impossible without communication, which is vital for advanced transportation systems, from railroads which want to run trains in two directions on a single track, to air traffic control which requires knowing the location of aircraft in the sky. Thus, it has been found that the increase of one generally leads to more of the other.
Transport, activities and land use
There is a well-known relationship between the density of development, and types of transportation. Density is defined as area of floorspace per area of land. As a rule of thumb, densities of 1.5 or less are well suited to automobiles. Densities of six and above are well suited to trains. The range of densities from about two up to about four is not well served by conventional public or private transport. Many cities have grown into these densities, and are suffering traffic problems. Personal rapid transit might fill this gap.
Land uses support activities. Those activities are spatially separated. People need transport to go from one to the other (from home to work to shop back to home for instance). Transport is a "derived demand," in that transport is unnecessary but for the activities pursued at the ends of trips.
Good land use keeps common activities close (e.g. housing and food shopping), and places higher-density development closer to transportation lines and hubs. Poor land use concentrates activities (such as jobs) far from other destinations (such as housing and shopping).
There are economies of agglomeration. Beyond transportation some land uses are more efficient when clustered.
Transportation facilities consume land, and in cities, pavement (devoted to streets and parking) can easily exceed 20% of the total land use. An efficient transport system can reduce land waste.
Transport, energy, and the environment
Transport is a major use of energy. Most transport burns hydrocarbons. If partially burned, these create pollution. Though vehicles in the United States have been getting cleaner because of environmental regulations, this has been offset by more vehicles and more use of each vehicle.
Low-pollution fuels can reduce pollution. The most popular low-pollution fuel at this time is liquified natural gas. Hydrogen is an even lower-pollution fuel.
Another tack is to make vehicles more efficient, which reduces pollution and waste by reducing the energy use. If electricity can be gotten to the vehicle, electric motors are the most efficient of all. Another method is to generate energy using fuel cells, which are two to five tiems as efficient as the heat engines traditionally used in vehicles. A trivial, but very effective method is to streamline ground vehicles, which spend up to 75% of their energy on air-resistance. Another method is to recycle the energy normally lost to braking, but this leads to a more complex vehicle.
Other uses of the word transport
The term penal transportation refers to sending persons abroad as punishment. The term transport is also used to describe certain computer network protocols (see Transport layer).
In biology the word transport refers to the movement of molecules or ions across cell membranes or via the bloodstream. Usually this transport is mediated by proteins.
See also
- List of transport topics
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Transport."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
TRANSIT | English | Traffic networks study tool | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: TransitSynonyms: passage (n), theodolite (n), transportation (n), transportation system (n), pass across (v), pass over (v), pass through (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Continuance in action | Passage; transit, transition; transmigration, shifting; Verb: phase; conjugation; convertibility. |
Disrepute | Interjection: fie! shame! for shame! proh pudor! O tempora! O mores! ough! sic transit gloria mundi! |
Motion | Step, rate, pace, tread, stride, gait, port, footfall, cadence, carriage, velocity, angular velocity; clip, progress, locomotion; journey; voyage; transit. |
Transference | Transit, transition; passage, ferry, gestation; portage, porterage, carting, cartage; shoveling; Verb: vection, vecture, shipment, freight, wafture; transmission, transport, transportation, importation, exportation, transumption, transplantation, translation; shifting, dodging; dispersion; transposition; (interchange); traction. |
On the way, by the way; on the road, on the wing, under way, in transit, on course; as one goes; in transitu, en route, chemin faisant, en passant, in mid progress, in mid course. | |
Transientness | Phrase: one's days are numbered; the time is up; here today and gone tomorrow; non semper erit aestas; eheu! fugaces labuntur anni; sic transit gloria mundi; a schoolboy's tale, the wonder of the hour!; dum loquimur fugerit invidia aetas; fugit hora; all that is transitory is but an illusion. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I heard a rumor those two German couriers were carrying letter of transit. (Casablanca; writing credit: Murray Burnett; Joan Alison) Subject in transit. Has changed his shoes (The Man with One Red Shoe; writing credit: Francis Veber; Yves Robert) Get me the police comissioner, the chairman of the Transit Authority, and that putz we've got for a Comptroller (The Taking of Pelham One Two Three; writing credit: John Godey; Peter Stone) Prepare the transit beam (The Rocky Horror Picture Show; writing credit: Richard O'Brien; Jim Sharman) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Hamburg Transit (1970) Sick Transit (1966) Transit Carlsbad (1966) Rabbit Transit (1947) Marriage in Transit (1925) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Bamberg astronomical transit In use 1914 - 1960 Used for both latitude and longitude observations. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Portable transit Fig. No. 29, Report of Superintendent ... 1866. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | World Trade Center at New York during transit between SHOALS Lidar survey sites. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Lieutenant Francis Popper preparing to make magnetic observations with a transit magnetometer. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Photo identification work - using transit on triangulation point to identify recognizable features. Lincoln Ganung on knees. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Cumulonimbus viewed on the transit from Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico, to Miami, Florida. Credit: Flying With NOAA. |
 | Coast and Geodetic Survey Schooner EARNEST. This picture was probably taken on the East Coast while in transit to the Pacific Coast in 1878. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | The NOAA Ship RESEARCHER waiting for transit through the Panama Canal. A United States Navy battleship is being towed in the background. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Magaly Rodriguez, NRCS Soil Conservation Technician from the Yellow River Soil and Water Conservation District, uses a transit to mark a field for the construction of a terrace. [Slide 97CS3088]. Credit: Bob Nichols. |  | Darryl Williams (left), NRCS District Conservationist, Okaloosa Co., FL, uses a transit to mark a field for the construction of a terrace. [Slide 97CS3090]. Credit: Bob Nichols. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Rapid Transit Station" by Mark DeFaria Commentary: "Rapid Transit Station - Toronto, Canada." | "Panama Canal 1" by Harry Barkan Commentary: "Canal transit scenes." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Goods in transit shall be exempt from all customs or other similar duties. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Otherwise they should be shipped on ice to avoid heat exposure during transit. (references) | |
Colonic inertia and delayed transit are two types of functional constipation caused by decreased muscle activity in the colon. (references) | ||
Antimotility agents (loperamide, diphenoxylate, and paregoric) primarily reduce diarrhea by slowing transit time in the gut, and, thus, allows more time for absorption. (references) | ||
Business | In 1998 the transit center market grew by over 10 percent. (references) | |
Normally the manufacturer makes arrangements for transit insurance and charges the cost to the buyer. (references) | ||
Ford is the principal supplier of small commercial vehicles in the U.K. through its Transit and Escort models. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Russia | The treatment of asylum seekers in the transit zone reportedly was harsh. (references) |
Guinea-Bissau | Since 2000 Senegal has allowed humanitarian convoys to transit the border. (references) | |
Russia | Authorities rarely released passengers from the transit zone, unless there was a medical emergency. (references) | |
Economic History | Turkey | About 75 percent of the country's steel exports transit through Iskenderun. (references) |
Bangladesh | Bangladesh and Nepal recently agreed to facilitate land transit between the two countries. (references) | |
Jamaica | Jamaica is a major transit point for South American cocaine en route to the United States. (references) | |
Human Rights | Cameroon | The incident occurred at "Tropicana," a Yaounde neighborhood where truck drivers in transit park their vehicles. (references) |
Sri Lanka | The military maintained the detainees were "in transit," and claimed they did not violate the detainees' rights. (references) | |
India | Several thousand others are held in short-term (1-day to 6-months' duration) confinement in transit and interrogation centers. (references) | |
Political Economy | Ukraine | Areas of particular strain involve energy supplies and gas transit. (references) |
Estonia | Services, especially financial, transit, and tourism, grew in importance compared to the historically more prominent light industry and food production. (references) | |
Armenia | Also, since 1995, Turkey has allowed a limited number of passenger charter flights between the two countries as well as Armenian transit flights over Turkish territory. (references) | |
Trade | Switzerland | No transit duties or fees are levied. (references) |
Switzerland | Liquid fuels in transit are also stored. (references) | |
Ireland | These transit documents are completed by the importer. (references) | |
Travel | Czech Rep | The city also has fine, usually quick, public transit to most points. (references) |
Kazakhstan | All travelers transiting Kazakhstan must obtain a Kazakhstani transit visa. (references) | |
Cote D'ivoire | Avoid crowds, mass transit, doorways, bushes, alleys, and sparsely populated areas. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Kyrgyz Republic | The exact number of those in transit is unknown. (references) |
South Africa | Namibia and Botswana reportedly are transit countries. (references) | |
Romania | Iasi and Timisoara are major transit centers in the country. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to wher we are no better off. For this purpose the railroad is held in highest favor by the optimist, for it permits him to make the transit with great expedition. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Ulysses S. Grant | 1869-1877 | Commerce, education, and rapid transit of thought and matter by telegraph and steam have changed all this. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Local mass transit, faring even worse, is as essential a community service as hospitals and highways. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Every American community will benefit from the construction or modernization of schools, libraries, hospitals, and nursing homes, from the training of more nurses and from the improvement of urban renewal in public transit. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | We began a significant urban mass transit program. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Continued increases in the cost of fuel are expected to make transit a growing part of the nation's transportation system. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Transit" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.94% of the time. "Transit" is used about 711 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 94.94% | 675 | 9,782 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.67% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.54% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.84% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 711 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Transit Group, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "transit": aba transit number ♦ bus transit ♦ captive transit rider ♦ Colorectal Transit Study ♦ direct transit area ♦ direct transit arrangements ♦ Gastrointestinal Transit ♦ goods in transit by inland waterways throughout ♦ goods in transit by road throughout ♦ heavy rail transit ♦ in transit ♦ inferior transit ♦ low level transit route ♦ Lower transit ♦ mass rapid transit ♦ mass transit ♦ meridian or transit circle ♦ period of transit ♦ personalised public transit ♦ personalized public transit ♦ public transit ♦ rail rapid transit ♦ rail transit ♦ rapid transit ♦ surveyor's transit ♦ traffic in transit ♦ transit area ♦ transit bearing ♦ transit camp ♦ Transit circle ♦ Transit compass ♦ Transit Computerisation Project, Construction and Initial Implementation Phase ♦ Transit Computerization Project ♦ Transit Customs Offices ♦ transit declinometer ♦ transit dependent person ♦ Transit duty ♦ transit fever ♦ transit flight ♦ transit instrument ♦ transit line ♦ transit lounge ♦ transit network ♦ transit pass program ♦ transit pass programme ♦ transit passengers ♦ transit permit ♦ transit pneumonia ♦ transit route ♦ transit rub ♦ transit services payment ♦ transit signal priority ♦ transit tax ♦ transit theodolite ♦ transit time ♦ Transit trade ♦ transit traffic ♦ transit visa ♦ transit workers ♦ transmission des cachets transit ♦ upper transit ♦ vernier transit. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "transit": transit-compass, transit-load, transit-taking, transit-time, transit-tube, transit-type. | |
Ending with "transit": abandoned-in-transit, in-transit, mass-transit, mercury-transit, para-transit, rapid-transit. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
nj transit | 3,709 | new york city transit | 234 |
new jersey transit | 2,584 | new transit york | 211 |
transit | 1,820 | authority metropolitan transit | 210 |
chicago transit authority | 1,817 | sound transit | 204 |
go transit | 1,117 | sacramento regional transit | 199 |
bc transit | 670 | authority transit utah | 190 |
bay area rapid transit | 647 | toronto transit | 170 |
calgary transit | 592 | pierce transit | 166 |
ac transit | 556 | foothill transit | 162 |
metro transit | 485 | halifax metro transit | 162 |
toronto transit commission | 406 | authority metro transit | 159 |
chicago transit | 378 | transit shoes | 152 |
nyc transit | 353 | dade miami transit | 139 |
golden gate transit | 304 | broward county transit | 138 |
mississauga transit | 304 | area authority metropolitan transit washington | 137 |
edmonton transit | 298 | community transit | 129 |
san diego transit | 279 | edmonton transit system | 128 |
dallas area rapid transit | 273 | long beach transit | 118 |
winnipeg transit | 241 | ford transit | 115 |
brampton transit | 241 | ct transit | 112 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "transit"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | transportim (affreightment, carriage, cartage, conveyance, haulage, portage, shipment, transfer, transport, transportation), ndryshim (alteration, amendment, change, difference, disparity, dissimilarity, dissimilation, dissimilitude, distinction, inflection, inflexion, innovation, manipulation, metamorphosis, modification, mutation, permutation, recast, reversal, reverse, shift, shifting, switch, transition, turn, variation), kthej (bandy, bend, bow, bring back, convert, disgorge, fold in, give back, head off, lift down, replace, restore, return, slew, throw back, transform, turn, turn aside, turn down), kaloj përmes (pass through), kalim (crossing, cut, devolution, escape, going, jump, lapse, negotiation, orifice, pass, passage, passageway, passing, release, switch over, transfer, transference, transition). (various references) | |
Arabic | مكنه من العبور, مرور (passage, passing), نقل (alien, alienate, assign, bandy, carriage, carry, carry forward, communicate, convection, convey, conveyance, copy, deliver, freight, go cart, hand on, handling, pass on, pipe, portage, promotion, propagate, relocate, remove, reproduction, route, shift, take away, tote, transfer, transference, transfuse, transmission, transmit, transport, transportation), عبور (crossing, passage, traffic in transit), عبر (across, act out, carry, clothe, come, come across, conceive, couch, cross, emit, enunciate, express, express oneself, fly, get through, give voice to, go over, jibe, jump, mouth, navigate, negotiate, pass, phrase, run, signify, slice through, span, swim, track, trans, ventilate, voice), العبور (crossing), إنتقال مباشر. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | транзитен (through), кратковременен (momentary), преходен (caducous, deciduous, fleeting, fugitive, in between, intermediate, passing, temporal, temporary, transient, transition, transitional, transitive, transitory, unabiding), превозване (conveyance, haul, haulage, lift), преминаване (crossing, pass, passage, passing), преминавам транзит, преминавам без престой. (various references) | |
Chinese | 運輸 (transport), 过渡 (transitional). (various references) | |
Czech | tranzit, prùjezd (passage, passageway), prùchod (gateway, outlet, passage, passageway), přechod (crossing, pass, passage, passing, transition). (various references) | |
Danish | transitering, transit (tandem), transfert (transfer), passage (passage), offentlig passagernærtrafik (mass transit, public transit), kulmination (acme, crisis, culmination), gennemfart, forsendelse (consignment, correspondence, to turn into the line). (various references) | |
Dutch | transit. (various references) | |
Farsi | گذر (Pass, Passage), حق العبور, عبورکردن (Cut, Go, Pass, Range, Traverse), عبور (Pass, Passage, Transmission, Transmittal), راه عبور (Thoroughfare). (various references) | |
Finnish | läpikulku (passage through). (various references) | |
French | transit (transit to another country), transiter, passage (transition). (various references) | |
German | Transit (passage), Durchgang (alleyway, gangway, gateway, heat, passage, passageway, round, stage, thoroughfar), Durchfahrt (pass, passage, thoroughfare, way through). (various references) | |
Greek | διέλευση (crossover), διάβαση (crossing, passage), διαμετακόμιση (transportation). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מעבר (crossing, pass, passage, step, thoroughfare, transfer, transition), כלי תחבורה, טרנזיט. (various references) | |
Hungarian | tranzit, átutazás (passage), átjárás (passage, pervasion), tranzit-, átutazó (through passenger), átmenés (transition), átmenő (through, through traffic), áthaladás (crossing, pass, passage, run, transition, traverse), áruszállítás. (various references) | |
Indonesian | singgah (call at, drop in, to call somewhere), pengiriman (dispatch, emission, transmission), melintasi (go over). (various references) | |
Italian | transito (relay), passaggio (aisle, arcade, changeover, conduit, crossing, entry, gangway, gateway, handing, lift, pass, passage, passing, transfer, transition, way out). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | トラップ射撃 (electrical transistor, tradition, traditional, traffic, traffic builder, trance, tranquilizer, transaction, transactional analysis, Trans-Am, trans-American, transceiver, transcription, transformer, transistor, transistor glamour, transnational, transparency, transponder, Transylvania, trap shooting, trappiste, trappistine, travel, travel agency, travel bureau, travel set, travel watch, travelers check, travellers' cheque, travelling, traverse, trouble, trouble shot, troublemaker, trouble-shooting, trough, trunk, trunk room, trunks, work). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | トランシット , トランジット . (various references) | |
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