Transit

Transit commonly refers to:

• Public transport, transportation systems in which the passengers do not travel in their own vehicles
• Astronomical transit, when one celestial body appears to move across the face of another celestial body, as seen by an observer at some particular vantage point
• Navigational transit, when a navigator observes two fixed reference points in line
• Transit, a specialized type of Theodolite used in surveying.

Transit may also refer to:

• Transit visa or transit papers, a type of visa issued by a country giving a certain individual permission to formally request entrance to that country
• Transit instrument, a specialized telescope for observing astronomical transits
• The Ford Transit, a van made by the Ford Motor Company
• Internet transit, one of the two mechanisms by which Internet traffic is exchanged between Internet service providers
• Transit was a 1964 speculative fiction novel by Edmund Cooper
• Transit, a 1992 novel by Ben Aaronovitch based on the TV series Doctor Who.
• Transit (satellite), the first satellite navigation system to be used operationally
• Transit (SpongeCola's Album), the second album of Sponge Cola
• Transit (film), a 2006 film about Russian and American pilots in World War II
• Transit (Staying-Alive film), a film produced by MTV and Staying-Alive about 4 people in different countries in the world.
• Transit (ship), the name given to three sailing vessels designed and built to the order of Captain Richard Hall Gower.
• Routing transit number, an identifying code used in transference of funds through banking institutions.
• Astrological transit, are the comparison and evaluation of planets in their current position in relation to those on a Natal Chart.
• TRANSIT is the name of a programme to promote interdisciplinary collaborative research at the University of York, UK here