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Amazing images of world's transport systems

Last updated on: July 16, 2014 13:14 IST

Image: Monorail is seen against the skyline of Mumbai.
Photographs: Sahil Salvi

Transportation is the key to a country’s economy. Look at Japan or China; their bullet trains are talked about across the world. Similarly, the United States has an unparalleled air connectivity.

Transport has throughout history been a spur to expansion as better transport allows more trade and a greater spread of people.

Let's take a look at some of the amazing transport systems around the world.

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Amazing images of world's transport systems


Photographs: Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters

Car light trails are pictured as traffic drives along a highway in Berlin, Germany.

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Amazing images of world's transport systems


Photographs: Alberto Berti/Reuters

Trucks block a highway toll booth during a transport strike on the outskirts of Rome in Italy.

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Amazing images of world's transport systems


Photographs: Alberto Berti/Reuters

Jimiyu, an 18-month-old male giraffe from Western Plains Zoo in Central New South Wales, looks out the back of a transport truck as it is driven to his home at Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia.

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Amazing images of world's transport systems


Photographs: Claro Cortes/Reuters

Commuters rush to catch a ride at Shanghai Metro in China.

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Amazing images of world's transport systems


Photographs: Micheala Rehle/Reuters

A traffic jam leads into Munich in Germany.

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Photographs: Michaela Rehle/Reuters

Air traffic controllers watch the screens and the airport at the control centre of the German air traffic control agency Deutsche Flugsicherung at Munich's airport.

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Photographs: Vivek Prakash/Reuters

A member of the ground staff places cones in front of one of the engines of the Airbus A380 superjumbo after it landed at Singapore's Changi Airport.

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Photographs: Alex Grimm/Reuters

An air traffic controller watches his screen at the control centre of the German air traffic control agency Deutsche Flugsicherung in Langen near Frankfurt.

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Photographs: Hugo Philpott/Reuters

A Eurostar train in Waterloo Station in the United Kingdom.

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Photographs: Matt Dunham/Reuters

Snow falls over the Houses of Parliament in London, United Kingdom.

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Photographs: Christian Charisius/Reuters

An engine driver climbs out of a locomotive at the 'Bahnhof Alte Suederelbe' cargo centre of the harbour in Hamburg, Germany.

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Amazing images of world's transport systems


Photographs: Christian Charisius/Reuters

A worker rides his bicycle beside a container ship being prepared for painting work in a dry-dock at Blohm + Voss shipyard in Hamburg, Germany.

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Photographs: Jorge Silva/Reuters

SkySails company Beluga ship docks in the port of Guanta in the city of Puerto La Cruz, 320km west of Caracas, in Venezuela.

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Photographs: Tim Wimborne/Reuters

A man takes a photo of the 40,000 tonne coal ship Pasha Bulker as it sits about 100 metres (330 feet) from Nobbys Beach after running aground near the coal port of Newcastle on Australia's east coast.

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Photographs: Tim Wimborn/Reuters

A Qantas Boeing 747 flies past a 767 airplane at Sydney International Airport in Australia.

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Photographs: Christian Charisius/Reuters

Cargo trains at the 'Bahnhof Alte Suederelbe' cargo centre in Hamburg, Germany.

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Photographs: Danish Siddiqui/Reuters

A metro train travels over a flyover at a residential area in Mumbai.

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Photographs: Danish Siddiqui/Reuters

A Mumbai Monorail passes over a highway in the eastern suburbs. India's first monorail, covering a distance of 8.93 kilometers (5.5 miles) was opened to public few months back.

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Photographs: Danish Siddiqui/Reuters

A New York City subway train enters the Coney Island station.