It is the opposite of a city bus, which mainly operates within a single location.
In the Netherlands, the standard yellow regional buses were characteristic of this type of transport for a long time.
Showing posts with label transport. Show all posts
Showing posts with label transport. Show all posts
Sunday, August 2, 2026
Regional bus
A regional bus is a public transport bus that operates between cities and between cities and villages (regional transport).
Thursday, December 4, 2025
Tractor
A tractor is a powerful agricultural vehicle specifically designed to perform heavy-duty tasks on a farm.
Its main characteristics and functions are:
Traction: Pulls implements such as plows, harrows, seed drills, fertilizer spreaders, and trailers.
Drive: Usually 4-wheel drive (4WD), sometimes tracks (tracked tractors) for better traction in mud and on slopes.
Power: Ranges from approximately 15 hp (small garden tractor) to over 600 hp (modern large agricultural tractors).
Power take-off (PTO): Provides mechanical power to trailed or mounted machinery (e.g., mowers, balers).
Hydraulics: Lifts and operates implements via a three-point linkage and external hydraulic connections.
Applications: Tillage, seeding, crop protection, harvesting, transport, livestock farming, and forestry.
In short: The tractor is the most important and versatile implement in modern agriculture.
Without a tractor, current food production would be unthinkable.
Thursday, August 28, 2025
Tram
A tram is a rail-based public transport system primarily used in cities for passenger transport.
It runs on road tracks, often electrically powered via overhead lines, and offers an efficient, environmentally friendly way to transport large groups of people.
Trams have a higher capacity than buses but are more flexible than trains.
In the Netherlands, trams operate in cities such as Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht.
Sunday, June 1, 2025
Pedal car
A pedal car is a vehicle powered by human muscle power, usually via pedals, similar to a bicycle.
They are often used for recreation, sports or as an environmentally friendly means of transport.
Pedal cars range from simple children's models to advanced, aerodynamic designs for racing, such as in the Dutch championships.
They are popular in playgrounds, amusement parks and at events and promote exercise and sustainability.
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Train
A train in everyday meaning is a vehicle consisting of a number of shorter parts coupled together on rails, where one or more of these parts provide the drive (traction).
The shorter parts can be a locomotive, a railway carriage, a freight wagon or a train set, which in turn consists of 'carriages' (rigid parts).
A train also often consists of one train set.
Sunday, October 20, 2024
Trolleybus
A trolleybus is a bus powered by electric motors that is powered by a two-wire overhead line.
Trolleybuses run on direct current.
The contact wire on the right is zero, the other contact wire is positive.
Sunday, June 23, 2024
Tuk tuk
A tuk tuk is a common means of public transport in Asian countries, especially in Thailand and also in African countries.
It is a motorized rickshaw that can carry a number of passengers.
Friday, January 19, 2024
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
Aeroplane
An airplane or flying machine is an aircraft that is capable of controlled flight through the air.
It uses the upward force, called lift, caused by the air that flows at a certain speed over the special profile of the wing surface.
Almost all also use different types of engines, except gliders, which are first pulled by a motorized aircraft and released at the right time and height and then released by their own gliding power, using thermals (upward air currents).
Furthermore, aircraft are available in single-person formats and in airbus or jumbo formats (multiple-person format).
Wednesday, July 5, 2023
Truck
A lorry is a motor vehicle made for the transport of goods and whose maximum permitted mass is more than 3,500 kg.
This is at least the boundary between a truck and a delivery van (camionette) according to the regulations in the Netherlands and the three regions of Belgium.
In other countries, that standard may differ slightly.
Nowadays the English term truck is also often used.
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