Transport

Transport is the movement of items over a distance in a Time.

Derived units:

• throughput: items per time.
• capacity: items per transport.

Entities, Which Transport Items

• Player: The player can transport many items in the inventory
• Belt transport system
  • Transport belts
  • Splitters
  • Underground belts
• Inserter: A fundamental part of any factory. The inserter transfers items between adjacent storage and transport entities.
• Vehicle
  • Car: The car can transport a large number of items
  • Tank: The tank has similar storage capacity to the car, and has the added bonus of being much more resistant to attack
• Railway: Transport gigantic amounts over long distances
  • Train: Runs on the railway.
• Robots: Intelligent transport over short distances using a Logistic network

Optimizing and Discussion

• Transport/What Transport for which case?
• Transport/Compress by Pre-production

About the supply strategies of outposts.

• Tired of babysitting expansions? Auto-supply w/ trains!

See also

• Transport network
• Logistic network
• Railway network