Transport vs. Travel — What's the Difference?

The act or means of moving people or goods.

To make a journey, typically over some distance.

A system or service for carrying passengers or goods.

The action of going from one place to another.

To carry or convey something.

To journey through or across an area.

Vehicles used to move people or cargo.

Moving for purposes like tourism, business, or leisure.

The process of transferring something from one place to another.

Exploration or visiting different places.

Transport (BE) or transportation (AE) is the movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to another. In other words, the action of transport is defined as a particular movement of an organism or thing from a point A (a place in space) to a point B. Modes of transport include air, land (rail and road), water, cable, pipeline, and space.

Travel is the movement of people between distant geographical locations. Travel can be done by foot, bicycle, automobile, train, boat, bus, airplane, ship or other means, with or without luggage, and can be one way or round trip.

Take or carry (people or goods) from one place to another by means of a vehicle, aircraft, or ship

Make a journey, typically of some length

Overwhelm (someone) with a strong emotion, especially joy

(of an object or radiation) move, typically in a constant or predictable way

A system or means of conveying people or goods from place to place

Take more than the allowed number of steps (typically two) while holding the ball without dribbling it.

An overwhelmingly strong emotion

The action of travelling

To move or carry (goods, for example) from one place to another; convey.

The range, rate, or mode of motion of a part of a machine

To cause to feel strong emotion, especially joy; carry away; enrapture.

To go from one place to another, as on a trip; journey.

To send abroad to a penal colony; deport.

To go from place to place as a salesperson or agent.

The act of transporting; conveyance.

To move or pass, as from one person to another

The condition of being transported by emotion; joy or rapture.

To be transmitted, as light or sound

A ship or aircraft used to transport troops or military equipment.

To move along a course, as a phonograph needle in the groove of a record.

A vehicle, such as an aircraft, used to transport passengers, mail, or freight.

(Informal) To move swiftly

The system of transporting passengers or goods in a particular country or area.

To go about in the company of a particular group; associate

The vehicles, such as buses and trains, used in such a system.

To admit of being transported without loss of quality; Some wines travel poorly.

A deported convict.

(Basketball) To move illegally while holding the ball, usually by taking more than two steps between dribbles or by moving a foot that has been established as a pivot.

To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey.

To pass or journey over or through; traverse

(historical) To deport to a penal colony.

The act or process of traveling from one place to another

(figuratively) To move (someone) to strong emotion; to carry away.

A series of journeys

An act of transporting; conveyance.

An account of one's journeys.

The state of being transported by emotion; rapture.

The activity or business of arranging trips or providing services for travelers

A vehicle used to transport (passengers, mail, freight, troops etc.)

Movement or passage

(Canada) A tractor-trailer.

The motion of a piece of machinery, especially of a reciprocating part; stroke.

The system of transporting passengers, etc. in a particular region; the vehicles used in such a system.

The length of a mechanical stroke.

A device that moves recording tape across the read/write heads of a tape recorder or video recorder etc.

(intransitive) To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another.

(historical) A deported convict.

(intransitive) To pass from one place to another; to move or transmit

To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops.

To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.

To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish.

(transitive) To travel throughout (a place).

To carry away with vehement emotion, as joy, sorrow, complacency, anger, etc.; to ravish with pleasure or ecstasy; as, music transports the soul.

(transitive) To force to journey.

Transportation; carriage; conveyance.

(obsolete) To labour; to travail.

A vessel employed for transporting, especially for carrying soldiers, warlike stores, or provisions, from one place to another, or to convey convicts to their destination; - called also transport ship, transport vessel.

The act of traveling; passage from place to place.

Vehement emotion; passion; ecstasy; rapture.

(in the plural) A series of journeys.

A convict transported, or sentenced to exile.

(in the plural) An account of one's travels.

Something that serves as a means of transportation

The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.

An exchange of molecules (and their kinetic energy and momentum) across the boundary between adjacent layers of a fluid or across cell membranes

The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke.

The commercial enterprise of transporting goods and materials

(obsolete) Labour; parturition; travail.

A state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion;

Distance that a keyboard's key moves vertically when depressed.

A mechanism that transport magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder

To labor; to travail.

Move something or somebody around; usually over long distances

To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets.

Move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body;

To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his health; he is traveling in California.

Hold spellbound

To pass; to go; to move.

Transport commercially

To journey over; to traverse; as, to travel the continent.

Send from one person or place to another;

To force to journey.

The act of traveling, or journeying from place to place; a journey.

An account, by a traveler, of occurrences and observations during a journey; as, a book of travels; - often used as the title of a book; as, Travels in Italy.

The length of stroke of a reciprocating piece; as, the travel of a slide valve.

Labor; parturition; travail.

The act of going from one place to another;

A movement through space that changes the location of something

Self-propelled movement

Change location; move, travel, or proceed;

Undertake a journey or trip

Make a trip for pleasure

Travel upon or across;

Undergo transportation as in a vehicle;

Travel from place to place, as for the purpose of finding work, preaching, or acting as a judge

Public transport is a system for carrying passengers that's available to the public.

Yes, travel often includes tourism and leisure activities.

Travel refers to the act of journeying from one place to another.

Transport focuses on the means of moving, while travel is the act of journeying.

Yes, business travel is a common reason for journeying.

Freight transport refers to the movement of goods and cargo.

Air transport is the movement of passengers and goods by aircraft.

Travel can be for various reasons, including leisure, business, or personal.

Modes of transport include road, rail, air, and sea vehicles.

Transport serves to move people or goods from one location to another.

Yes, many people consider travel a hobby or interest.

Sustainable transport refers to environmentally friendly modes of transportation.

Yes, travel can be very educational, offering learning opportunities about different places and cultures.

Yes, travel can be important for experiencing and understanding different cultures.

Transport is crucial for trade, commuting, and economic connectivity.