Basically just as the Morrowind options for roleplayers the ingame fast travel options like carriages or ships(Highlighted awhile ago by an IGN article) are available.
Not that using fast travel or just walking it out back and forth isn't a bad thing and quite doable. But it's there and people are thankful for it. Personally thanks to another topic I'd like Mark and recall aswell.
As for mounts the article bits people have said mention horses ansd you can ride them.
We've known horses would be available for awhiel in-game but Bethesda wanted them to handle well untill presented as Mounts.