public transport

English

Pronunciation

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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, Tom Miller, China's Urban Billion: The story behind the biggest migration in human history‎^[1], Zed Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, 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
• Albanian: transport publik
• Arabic: مُوَاصَلَات عَامَّة f pl (muwāṣalāt ʕāmma)
• 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 (ja) (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
• Lithuanian: viešasis transportas m
• Macedonian: ја́вен пре́воз m (jáven prévoz)
• 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.