Private vehicles or commercial fleets optionally carrying passengers or freight
This article is about private vehicles or commercial fleets optionally carrying passengers or freight. For private vehicles or commercial fleets without passengers or freight, see Personal transport.
Cars, such as this Chevrolet Suburban, are a common method of private transport.1922 illustration. Private transport depicted; automobile, bicycle, biplane, caravan, coupe, cabriolet, half-track, horse-drawn carriage, horse-drawn cart, hot-air balloon, rowing boat, limousine, motorcycle, truck, wheelbarrow, yacht. Public transport depicted; ambulance, charabanc, horsecar, mailcoach, motorbus, rickshaw, stagecoach, steam locomotive, streetcarA park and ride sign in the United Kingdom, for people heading into a city centre to transfer between private and public transport
Private transport (as opposed to public transport) is the personal or individual use of transportation which are not available for use by the general public, where in theory the user can decide freely on the time and route of transit ('choice rider' vs. 'captive rider'[1]), using vehicles such as: private car, company car, bicycle, dicycle, self-balancing scooter, motorcycle, scooter, aircraft, boat, snowmobile, carriage, horse, etc., or recreational equipment such as roller skates, inline skates, sailboat, sailplane, skateboard etc.