public transport

public transport

English

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Noun

public transport (countable and uncountable, plural public transports)

1. (UK, Australia, New Zealand) Any form of transport that can be used by a member of public (who usually pays a fare); as opposed to private ownership of e.g. cars.
   • 2012, Miller, Tom, China's Urban Billion: The story behind the biggest migration in human history‎, Zed Books, →ISBN, OCLC 905865534, page 137:

     Nevertheless, China’s investment in subway systems is overwhelmingly positive. And there are also encouraging signs, too, that Chinese cities are beginning to shape urban development around public transport hubs. For example, Tiantongyuan, a high-density community of giant housing blocks in the suburbs of northern Beijing, has three subway stations.

   • 2019 October, John Glover, “Heathrow rail expansion”, in Modern Railways, page 71:

     The Airports National Policy Statement objectives require the proportion of journeys made to the airport by passengers to be at least 50% by public transport by 2030 and 55% by 2040.

Synonyms

• (US) public transit
• (US) public transportation

Translations

form of transport

Afrikaans: openbare vervoer Arabic: مُوَاصَلَات عَامَّة‎ f pl (muwāṣalāt ʿāmma) Armenian: հասարակական տրանսպորտ (hasarakakan transport) Bulgarian: обще́ствен тра́нспорт m (obštéstven tránsport) Chinese: Mandarin: 共同交通 (zh) (gòngtóng jiāotōng), 公共交通 (zh) (gōnggòng jiāotōng), 公交 (zh) (gōngjiāo) Czech: veřejná doprava f Danish: kollektiv trafik c Dutch: openbaar vervoer (nl) n, ov (nl) n Estonian: ühistransport (et) Finnish: julkinen liikenne (fi) French: transport en commun (fr) m Galician: transporte público (gl) m Georgian: საზოგადოებრივი ტრანსპორტი (sazogadoebrivi ṭransṗorṭi) German: öffentlicher Verkehr m, ÖV m Greek: μέσο μαζικής μεταφοράς (el) n (méso mazikís metaforás) Gujarati: જાહેર પરિવહન (jāher parivhan) Hindi: सार्वजनिक परिवहन (sārvajnik parivhan) Hungarian: tömegközlekedés (hu) Icelandic: almenningssamgöngur f pl Irish: iompar poiblí m Italian: trasporto pubblico m, servizio pubblico m Japanese: 公共交通機関 (こうきょうこうつうきかん, kōkyō kōtsū kikan) Javanese: transportasi umum Kazakh: қоғамдық көлік (qoğamdyq kölık) Khmer: យានដឹកជញ្ជូនសាធារណៈ (yien dək cʊəɲcuun saatʰierea’na’) Korean: 대중교통(大衆交通) (ko) (daejunggyotong) Latin: please add this translation if you can Latvian: sabiedriskais transports m Mongolian: нийтийн тээвэр (niitiin teever) Norman: transport publyi m Norwegian: Bokmål: kollektivtrafikk m Nynorsk: kollektivtransport m Persian: please add this translation if you can Polish: transport publiczny m Portuguese: transporte público (pt) m Romanian: transport public n, transport în comun n Russian: обще́ственный тра́нспорт (ru) m (obščéstvennyj tránsport) Scottish Gaelic: còmhdhail f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: јавни превоз m Roman: javni prevoz m Spanish: transporte público m Swahili: usafiri wa umma Swedish: kollektivtrafik (sv) c, lokaltrafik (sv) c Tagalog: pampublikong transportasyon Tamil: பொது போக்குவரத்து (potu pōkkuvarattu) Telugu: ప్రజా రవాణా (prajā ravāṇā) Thai: การคมนาคมขนส่งสาธารณะ (gaan kámánaakom kŏn sòng săataarná) Turkish: toplu taşıma (tr) Ukrainian: грома́дський тра́нспорт m (hromádsʹkyj tránsport) Urdu: پبلک ٹرانسپورٹ‎ (pablik ṭrānsporṭ) Vietnamese: giao thông công cộng (交通公共) Zulu: please add this translation if you can

See also

• mass transit

References

• “public transport”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.