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Movements of processive cytoskeletal motors are characterized by an interplay between directed motion along filament and diffusion in the surrounding solution. In the present work, these peculiar movements are studied by modeling them as random walks on a lattice. An additional subject of our studies is the effect of motor-motor interactions on these movements. In detail, four transport phenomena are studied: (i) Random walks of single motors in compartments of various geometries, (ii) stationary concentration profiles which build up as a result of these movements in closed compartments, (iii) boundary-induced phase transitions in open tube-like compartments coupled to reservoirs of motors, and (iv) the influence of cooperative effects in motor-filament binding on the movements. All these phenomena are experimentally accessible and possible experimental realizations are discussed.