| 单词 | traffic mile |
| 释义 | > as lemmastraffic mile traffic mile n. (a) a unit of measurement of the freight and passengers carried by a transportation service in a given period (now rare); (b) a unit of traffic measurement representing a distance of one mile travelled by one (road) vehicle; = vehicle mile n. at vehicle n. Compounds 3.With sense (a) chiefly in the context of railway transportation; cf. main sense 8a. ΚΠ 1860 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 23 230 (table) Working expenses per Traffic mile. 1933 Los Angeles Times 16 Apr. 23/1 Last year the cost to the public per 1000 traffic miles was about $11. 1937 N.Y. Times 12 Jan. 25/4 The heavy snowstorm..kept many automobiles off the streets..and thus kept low the accident-per-traffic-mile rate. 2017 Kent & Sussex Courier (Nexis) 4 Aug. (Letters section) Most probably more traffic miles and associated fuel have been covered and consumed by a large fleet of spoil lorries than the whole of the traffic using the A21 in any year of construction. < as lemmas |
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