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public transport (countable and uncountable, plural public transports)
- (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.
- (US) public transit
- (US) public transportation
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:
- 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)
- Maori: waka tūmatanui
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: 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
- “public transport”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.