1. Major technical branch

The transport of people, as well as goods, is part of the technical advances and revolutions that have marked its history (with the steam engine or the automobile, for example).

In this respect, a distinction must be made between :

• production of transport tools ;

• transport production ;

• consumption.

• Transport equipment and transport industry

  The industries that produce the tools of transport – rail, automotive, maritime and aeronautical construction, not to mention infrastructure, signalling and control systems, energy, etc. – remain among the most innovative. They are located upstream of the transport activity, to which they supply equipment, which in turn requires...