交通 ("transportation" + "communication")

Chinese has the word grouping 交通 which means both "transportation" and "communication":

• 交 jiao ("to deliver", "turn over")
• 通 tong ("to go through", "to connect")

if we think about, both "transportation" and "communication" have to do with:

• taking things ("physical" or "mental") from one spot to another

let's then look at the English roots of those words:

"transportation"

• Middle English transporten ("to transport")
  • borrowed from Old French transporter ("to bring or convey across")
    • Latin transportō ("to bring beyond")
      • trans- ("beyond")
      • port ("to bring")

"communication"

• Middle English communicacion ("discussion")
  • borrowed from Old French communicacion ("discussion", "sharing")
    • Latin communicationem ("imparting")
      • Latin communis ("common", "public")
      • Proto-Italic *kommoinis ("common", to "change with")
        • PIE *ḱóm ("with")
        • PIE *mey- ("change")

does the sense of "bringing beyond" or "(ex-)changing with" seem to click now?