Transportation in Omaha, Nebraska, includes most major modes, such as pedestrian, bicycle, automobile, bus, train and airplane. While early transportation consisted of ferries, stagecoaches, steamboats, street railroads, and railroads, the city's transportation systems have evolved to include the Interstate Highway System, parklike boulevards and a variety of bicycle and pedestrian trails. The historic head of several important emigrant trails and the First transcontinental railroad, its center as a national transportation hub earned Omaha the nickname "Gate City of the West" as early as the 1860s.
The Missouri River and the Interstate Highway System have both been important to transportation in Omaha.
A period Union Pacific poster advertising their route from Omaha.
George Francis Train, Omaha promoter and land owner.
Ak-Sar-Ben Bridge toll booth in November 1938.
Omaha is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County. Omaha is in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, about 10 mi (15 km) north of the mouth of the Platte River. The nation's 40th-most populous city, Omaha's 2020 census population was 486,051.
Image: City of Omaha, Nebraska Skyline on the Missouri River (30899969517)
Image: Fort Omaha
Image: USS Hazard at Freedom Park in Omaha, Nebraska. (2)
Image: Omaha Union Station (48440374712)
