What is Public transport?
[[File:Menschen an einer Bushaltestelle in der tuvinischen Steppe zwischen Shagonar und Kyzyl.jpg|thumb|People waiting at a [[bus stop]] in [[Siberia]].]] [[File:Traversier Nil (3).JPG|thumb|right|Ferry crossing the [[Nile]].]]'''Public transport''' ('''public transportation''' in the [[United States]]) is the [[transport]] of [[passenger]]s. Passengers don't need their own cars or other vehicles. Most public transport lets many people travel at the same time. ==History== [[Ship]]s have carried passengers since [[prehistoric]] times. That is the first kind of public transport. From the 17th century boats carried people along the canals. Stagecoaches traveled a fixed route between [[coaching inns]]. There were buses in [[Paris]] in 1662. Around 1826 [[horse]]drawn omnibuses operated in [[Nantes]], [[France]]. They started in [[London]] in July 1829. [[Omnibus]]<nowiki/>es were [[cart]]s with seats for passengers to sit. The first passenger horse-drawn [[Rail transport|rail]] vehicle opened in 1806. It ran along the [[Swansea and Mumbles Railway.]] From 1825 [[Steam locomotive|steam]] [[railroad]]s began carrying passengers between towns in [[England]]. [[Ferry|Ferries]] (public boats) also became bigger and more numerous then. ==Types of public transport== The main [[vehicle]]s for public transport are [[bus]]es, [[trolleybus]]es, [[tram]]s and [[Railway|trains]]. Trams were first used in the late 1860s and used to be pulled by horses. Now trams are [[electric]] and run on a line of cable. Buses drive on the [[road]], like cars do. Trolleybuses are like buses, but they use [[electricity]] from two wires above the road.<ref>Joyce, J.; King, J. S.; and Newman, A. G. (1986). ''British Trolleybus Systems'', pp. 9, 12. London: [[Ian Allan Publishing]]. {{ISBN|0-7110-1647-X}}.</ref> Trains run on a track and are very fast. Many places use trams and trains as a form of public transport. [[File:W6 983 in Victoria Pde on route 30, 2004 (tram).jpg|thumb|A Tram in Melbourne, Australia]] == Using public transport == M