Mode of transport carries its own motor. As of 2002, there were 591 million automobiles worldwide. Other users of roads include motorcars, motorcycles, buses, trucks, bicycles and pedestrians, and special provisions are sometimes made for each of these. For example, the use of bus lanes give priority for public transport, and cycle lanes provide special areas of road for bicycles to use. Motorcars offer high flexibility, but are deemed with high energy and area use, and the main source of noise and air pollution in cities; buses allow for more efficient travel at the cost of reduced flexibility. Road transport by truck is
Ministry of Transport Machine-Building Industry 1941 the majority of plants being taken over by the Germans, while the composition of NKTP includes businesses located in the eastern regions of the USSR. They evacuated facilities, such as Moreover, the composition became NKTP "Source": Ministry of Transport Machine-Building Industry The Ministry of Transport Machine-Building Industry () was one of the government ministries of the Soviet Union. Before 1946 it was known as the People's Commissariat of the Tank Industry of the USSR ("Народный комиссариат танковой промышленности СССР"). The seat was located in Moscow at Ryazanskaya St. ("Рязанская ул.") 8а, then evacuated to Chelyabinsk. The People's Commissariat of