Transit

Transit may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Film

• Transit (1979 film), a 1979 Israeli film
• Transit (1986 film), a Canadian short film
• Transit (2005 film), a film produced by MTV and Staying-Alive about four people in countries in the world
• Transit (2006 film), a 2006 film about Russian and American pilots in World War II
• Transit (2012 film), an American thriller
• Transit (2013 film), a Filipino independent film
• Transit (2018 film), a German film

Literature

• Transit (Cooper novel), a 1964 science fiction by Edmund Cooper
• Transit (Seghers novel), a 1944 novel by Anna Seghers
• Transit (Aaronovitch novel), a 1992 novel by Ben Aaronovitch based on the TV series Doctor Who

Music

• Transit (band), an American emo band from Boston, Massachusetts
• Transit (Ira Stein and Russel Walder album), an album by acoustic duo Ira Stein and Russel Walder, released 1986
• Transit (Sponge Cola album)
• Transit (A. J. Croce album)
• Transit Transit, an album by the band Autolux
• Transit (rapper), real name Dan Bennett, Canadian indie hip-hop artist

Science and technology

Computing

• Internet transit, one of two mechanisms by which Internet traffic is exchanged between internet service providers

Astronomy, navigation, and surveying

• Transit (astronomy), the apparent motion of one celestial body across the face of another celestial body or meridian
• Transit telescope, a special-purpose telescope mounted so as to point only at objects transiting the local meridian
• A specialized type of theodolite used in surveying
• Transit (satellite), the first satellite navigation system to be used operationally
• Navigational transit, when a navigator observes two fixed reference points in line

Transportation

• Transit (app), a mobile application for public transportation trip planning
• Transit bus, a type of bus used on shorter-distance public transport bus services
• Public transport systems, sometimes called 'mass transit', 'public transit', or simply 'transit', in which passengers are carried in large numbers using shared vehicles.
• Ford Transit, a Ford Motor Company van
• Transit (ship), the name given to the three sailing vessels designed and built for Captain Richard Hall Gower
• TransIT, a bus service in Frederick County, Maryland

Other uses

• Transit, Canadian shoe retailer now operating under the name Spring
• Transit hotel

See also

• Transat (disambiguation)
• Transition (disambiguation)
• Sic transit gloria mundi
• Transport or transportation