In Prague, there is several types of transportation, which includes buses, trams, the metro, and also trains.

For a few years now, other means of public transport in Prague, that is trams - tramvaje - and buses - autobusy - have been playing recordings with names of their stops, too.  I must say I appreciate it, especially when traveling somewhere I've never been or right now when some bus or tram routes are changed to replace the closed parts of the metro.  Special trains - vlaky - also run between Prague's railway stations and help the congested city centre.

The word for train is - vlak.  The first railway on Czech territory was built in 1839, connecting the Austrian capital Vienna and the Moravian city of Brno.  Of course, those first trains were drawn by steam engines - parni lokomotiva.  Those days are over, but if you are interested, you can still take a ride in one of the historic trains because Czech Railways organize nostalgic rides around Prague for children and tourists.  At a railway station - nadrazi - you can choose which train suits you best.
For short distances, you may prefer a slow or stopping train - osobnivlak - in colloquial use osobak, but if you want to travel to a more distant place and get there fast, you'll chose a fast train - rychlik.  Railways nowadays have some tough competition - coaches - as they are often faster and cheaper than trains.  Czech uses the same word for both coaches and buses - autobus.
If you need to travel even further and even faster, you will opt for an airplane - letadlo.  This Czech word comes from the verb letat - to fly. And so does the word letiste, which means airport.
As a landlocked country with only a few dozen kilometres of navigable waterways, the Czech Republic hasn't really got much shipping traffic - lodni doprava - to speak of.  But anyway, the word for ship is lod.  On the Vltava, there are a lot of cruising steamboats - parniky - very popular with foreign tourists.
The most familiar of all means of transportation is the car.  Czech has no domestic word for the car, it borrowed the Greek-Latin hybrid automobil or automobile, known perhaps to most languages of the world.  The word is usually used in it's shortened form - auto.  If you really like your cute little car you can use the affectionate diminutive - auticko.  Or, if you drive a big fancy car, you'll call it aut'ak or bourak in slang.

-Pavla Horakova