The exchanges of goods, people and information play a considerable part in the human society, whether it is at the level of a village or with that of planet.

These exchanges are based on technical systems and infrastructures which did not cease evolving since the first ages of humanity, and which knew with the Great Discoveries of XVe century an extraordinary space dilation to reach, in the last third of the XXe century, it near periphery to the Earth, with the artificial satellites. Today, the share of information in the transport systems takes a paramount importance.    

In the various companies, nature and the means of transport depend on the natural framework, the technological level, the socio-economic medium, the administrative structures, the policy of the State and the choices as regards installation. It is thus advisable to determine what owe with the environment and the technical evolution transport of the goods and the people before brushing a panorama of the rise of transport, then to stick more specifically to transport of information, which plays a fundamental role at the dawn of the “electronic highways”.